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Ragtime on Video - 1981

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A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.

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Starring:
James Cagney

Brad Dourif

Moses Gunn

Elizabeth McGovern

Kenneth McMillan

Howard E. Rollins, Jr.

Mary Steenburgen

Samuel L. Jackson

Fran Drescher

Debbie Allen

Uncredited: Jack Nicholson

Studio: Dino De Laurentiis Company, Sunley Productions Ltd.

Filmed: 1981 - Released: 1981

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