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Ragtime
The passion, the violence, the birth of America's Gilded Age.
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155 min
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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.
Lists that include Ragtime
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