Coalhouse Walker Jr.: I read music so good, white folks think I'm fakin' it.
Younger Brother: What kind of music do you play?
Coalhouse Walker Jr.: Anything they ask me to, and then I play ragtime.
Ragtime (1981)
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Directed by: Milos Forman
Starring: Brad Dourif, James Cagney, Elizabeth McGovern, Moses Gunn, Howard E. Rollins Jr.
Genres: Drama
Factual error: Ragtime is set in 1906. Yet a 1915 Model T figures prominently in the plot.
Trivia: Jenny and Max Nichols, the children of director Mike Nichols, both appear in the film: Jenny is the silhouette artist's little girl, and young Max plays the son of Mary Steenburgen's "Mother" character.