Ragtime

Ragtime (1981)

  • 90% of critics liked it
    (10 reviews)

  • 73% of users liked it
    (2,743 ratings)

Milos Foreman's cinematic adaptation of E.L. Doctrow's sprawling pop-culture epic Ragtime follows a variety of characters whose lives intertwine during the earliest years of the 20th century. Brad Dourif plays the meek young brother in a wealthy family who ends up helping Coalhouse Walker… More

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PG,
Directed By
Written By
Michael Weller
Genres
Drama
In Theaters
Nov 20, 1981 Wide
Paramount Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

    Sporadically engaging, Milos Forman's chronicle of American society and culture in the beginning of the twentieth century is too sprawling and dramatically diffuse, though some of the acting is excellent.

  • Steve Crum, Video-Reviewmaster.com

    Great to see very late Cagney in solid Milos Forman film.

  • Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com

    a jumbled and largely uninteresting mess

  • Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

    A robust screen adaptation of Doctorow's novel about class warfare, social change, and the gap between the rich and the poor

  • Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

    Fine, sprawling period piece. A great swan song for Cagney.

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  • jay n


    It drags here and there but mostly a fine epic film

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