The passion, the violence, the birth of America's Gilded Age.
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.
Brad Dourif Howard Rollins Elizabeth McGovern Mary Steenburgen Moses Gunn James Cagney Kenneth McMillan Pat O’Brien Donald O'Connor James Olson Mandy Patinkin Debbie Allen Jeffrey DeMunn Robert Joy Norman Mailer Bruce Boa Hoolihand Burke Norman Chancer Edwin Cooper Jeff Daniels Fran Drescher Frankie Faison Hal Galili Alan Gifford Richard Griffiths Samuel L. Jackson Michael Jeter Calvin Levels Bessie Love Christopher Malcolm Herman Meckler Billy J. Mitchell Jenny Nichols Max Nichols Zack Norman Eloise Taylor Don Plumley Ted Ross Dorsey Wright Robert Arden Robert Boyd Thomas A. Carlin John Clarkson Brian F. Dean Harry Ditson Robert Dorning Geoffrey Greenhill Ray Hassett Robert Hitt Rodney James George Harris George J. Manos Val Pringle Ron Weyand Sonny Abagnale John Alderson Nesbitt Blaisdell Chaim Blatter Donald Bisset Josh Clark Robert Coffin Patrick Connor Joel Cutrara Jake Dengel Barry Dennen Natalia Dobrer Daniel Foley Gretchen Franklin Pat Gorman Guy Gregory Dave Griffiths Jeff Harding Robert Henderson Colette Hiller Patrick M. Hughes Elaine Ives-Cameron Andreas Katsulas Douglas Lambert Pavel Landovský Norris Mailer Derek Martin Al Matthews Stuart Milligan Richard Oldfield Nelly Polissky Mike Potter Anthony Powell Ethan Phillips Joe Praml John Ratzenberger Bill Reimbold Bob Sherman Tony Sibbald Stan Simmons John Sterland Jan Tříska Burnell Tucker Britt Walker Peter Whitman Edward Wiley John Carrafa Nancy Cohen Harry Fielder Jim Fitzpatrick Robert Hallak Warren Kliewer Derek Lyons Louis Marino Cathy Munroe Chris Parsons Frank Patton III Billie Perkins Ilana Rapp Judi Trott
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