Factual error: Sarah tries to talk to "Vice President Fairbanks" during his campaign stop at the train depot. The movie is set in 1906, which wasn't an election year. Fairbanks ran for VP on Theodore Roosevelt's ticket in 1904, but he was a senator at the time, not the standing vice president. Roosevelt had no VP during his first term. He succeeded the assassinated William McKinley, and never appointed a VP.
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
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Coalhouse Walker Jr.: I read music so good, white folks think I'm fakin' it.
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.