The story runs in the 1910's New York. Coalhouse Walker Jr. is a black piano player. He has won fame and fortune playing with a jazz band. Some white men do not like this situation, and one day they assault him and spoil his brand new car. Walker tries by all means to get justice, without an answer...... (Full plot summary below)
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The story runs in the 1910's New York. Coalhouse Walker Jr. is a black piano player. He has won fame and fortune playing with a jazz band. Some white men do not like this situation, and one day they assault him and spoil his brand new car. Walker tries by all means to get justice, without an answer...
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| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeFine, sprawling period piece. A great swan song for Cagney. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertRgatime is a loving, beautifully mounted, graceful film that creates its characters with great clarity. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottThe page-turning joys of E.L. Doctorow's bestselling Ragtime, which dizzily and entertainingly charted a kaleidoscopic vision of a turn-of-century America in the midst of intense social change, have been realized almost completely in Milos Forman's superbly crafted screen adaptation. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevySporadically 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. |
| TimeRichard CorlissForman and Weller have created an impressive but strangely lopsided movie. |
| The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe movie is sorrowful, funny and beautiful. It is also, finally, very unsatisfactory. |
| Video-Reviewmaster.comSteve CrumGreat to see very late Cagney in solid Milos Forman film. |
| Boston GlobeMichael BlowenWhat's left is a curiously disconnected illustration of American racism, which nevertheless fails to realize the power and irony inherent in its pop-Marxist analysis. |
| User ReviewMatt KStellar acting, plot, dialogue, cinematography. Incredibly moving story. Beautiful score. |
| User ReviewROXANNE JA great adaptation of E.L. Doctrow's novel.with a great musical Score by Randy Newman |
