Ragtime movie little boy11/8/2023 ![]() ![]() He demands restitution, but finds the legal system stacked against him and those like him. Upon his return, he finds his vehicle vandalized. The racist firemen refuse to get out of his way, so he leaves the car behind. On his way to work, a fire engine is blocking the road. (Howard Rollins), a talented piano player who becomes blinded by pride. The baby’s father is Coalhouse Walker, Jr. Mother decides to keep him and his mother Sara (Debbie Allen) to keep her our of jail, neither of which Father is pleased with but excepts. A black baby boy is left in the family’s garden. Unnamed in the credits and the novel, an upper-class family are only identified as Father (James Olson), Mother (Mary Steenburgen), and Younger Brother (Brad Dourif), the latter has a brief affair with Evelyn, which offers so little to the plot, it could have been cut and nothing would be lost. As she becomes less an active participant in story events she recedes to the periphery. The feud leads Evelyn to fend for herself. Thaw (Robert Joy) furious that architect Stanford White (Norman Mailer) based the statue that graces Madison Square Garden’s roof after Harry’s wife Evelyn Nesbit (Elizabeth McGovern). ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, what did make the film are a lot of characters whose actions make them and their plight unsympathetic. The storyline for one character that appears in the novel was either cut from the film or didn’t make Michael Weller’s screenplay. Doctorow’s 1975 novel of the same name, Milos Forman’s Ragtime (1981) is set in the turn of the 20 th century New York, and presents an intersection of fictional characters and historical figures. ![]()
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