An exploration of the down side of the American Dream, RAGTIME is not always convincing, and under Forman's occasionally heavy-handedĭirection, its performances are uneven. This vivid, high-energy human tableau interweaves the lives and passions of a middle class, small town family against the scandal and events of a.10. Another plotline follows starving immigrant artist Patinkin, who encounters Nesbit by chance and later sets off to make his fortune in Hollywood.
Walker's sense of dignity turns to rage when he is abused by local racists he gathers a band of revolutionaries who are joined by Steenburgen's younger brother (Dourif), a Rollins Jr.), who arrives to woo a pregnant young woman living in their home. Ragtime artist Coalhouse Walker (Howard E. A second plot line follows the disintegration of an upper-class American family led by Mary Steenburgen and James Olson their complacency is disturbed by black
This story was better told in THE GIRL IN THE RED VELVET SWING. Thaw (Robert Joy) kills famed architect Stanford White (Norman Mailer) over theĪffections of Thaw's showgirl wife Evelyn Nesbit (Elizabeth McGovern). The most compelling story is that of the infamous Thaw-White murder case, in which mad millionaire Harry K. Top-billed Cagney, at age 81, to play a feisty NYC police commissioner.īased on Doctorow's novel, the film balances several themes and four families-one factual, three fictional. The most impressive aspect of the film is the return, after a 20-year hiatus, of Although more than $32 million was pumped into this kaleidoscopic portrait of American life in 1906, RAGTIME is too long, too splintered in its characterizations, and too much of a good thing squeezed dry.
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