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
as Younger Brother
Howard Rollins
as Coalhouse Walker Jr.
Elizabeth McGovern
as Evelyn Nesbit
Mary Steenburgen
as Mother
James Olson
as Father
Robert Joy
as Henry Thaw
Moses Gunn
as Booker T. Washington
James Cagney
as New York Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo
Kenneth McMillan
as Willie Conklin
Pat O’Brien
as Delmas, Thaw's Lawyer
Donald O'Connor
as Evelyn's Dance Instructor
Mandy Patinkin
as Tateh