Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 155 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
The story
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.
- new york city
- based on novel or book
- jazz singer or musician
- public murder
- racism
- class differences
- pianist
- ragtime
- revenge killing
- radical politics
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
James Cagney
New York Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo
Brad Dourif
Younger Brother
Moses Gunn
Booker T. Washington
Elizabeth McGovern
Evelyn Nesbit
- Kenneth McMillan — Willie Conklin
- Pat O'Brien — Delmas
- Donald O'Connor — Evelyn's Dance Instructor
- James Olson — Father
- Mandy Patinkin — Tateh
- Howard Rollins — Coalhouse Walker Jr.
- Mary Steenburgen — Mother
- Debbie Allen — Sarah
- Jeffrey DeMunn — Harry Houdini
- Robert Joy — Henry Thaw
- Norman Mailer — Stanford White
- Directed
- Miloš Forman
- Written
- Michael Weller
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 194 ratings
- Studio
- The De Laurentiis Company, Sunley Productions Ltd.
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
