![]() ![]() They encounter Tateh, now a film director on a photoplay with Evelyn. ![]() Ostracized by their own white community and hounded by reporters, Father and Mother leave for Atlantic City. Father is disgusted at the violence but Younger Brother joins Coalhouse's gang with his knowledge of explosives. ![]() He threatens to attack other firehouses, demanding his car be restored and Conklin be turned over to him. At a presidential rally, Sarah attempts to tell President Roosevelt about Coalhouse's case but is beaten by guards and dies.Īfter Sarah's funeral, Coalhouse and his supporters kill several firemen. Father and Younger Brother argue over Coalhouse's legal recourse. Coalhouse pursues legal action, but can find no lawyer willing to represent him. After Father arranges for Coalhouse's release, they discover his car has been further vandalized. Colehouse refuses, and is hauled in to the local precinct. ![]() Coalhouse attempts to force the policeman to intervene, but the policeman insists that Colehouse should clean the manure off his car and move on, giving him the choice to do so or be arrested. Coalhouse finds a policeman ( Jeff Daniels) and returns to find his car soiled with horse manure. In New Rochelle, Coalhouse is targeted by bigoted volunteer firemen led by Willie Conklin ( Kenneth McMillan), who refuse to allow his automobile to pass by. The affair ends, leaving Younger Brother adrift. After Thaw is found not guilty by reason of temporary insanity, his lawyers inform Evelyn that Thaw will sue her for divorce on the grounds of infidelity and she accepts a smaller settlement. Evelyn and Younger Brother begin an affair as she prepares her return to the stage, while he assumes they will eventually marry. He leaves New York with their daughter and sells the flip book he created. Passing through the Lower East Side, Evelyn encounters street artist Tateh ( Mandy Patinkin), who throws out his unfaithful wife ( Fran Drescher). Thaw's lawyer Delmas ( Pat O'Brien) bribes Evelyn with a million-dollar divorce settlement to keep silent about Thaw's mental instability and to testify that White abused her. Younger Brother witnesses White's murder and becomes obsessed with Evelyn. Coalhouse arrives in search of Sarah, driving a new Ford Model T, and realizing he is the baby's father, announces his intention to marry Sarah. An African American baby is abandoned in their garden, and upon learning the police intend to charge the child's mother, Sarah ( Debbie Allen), with child abandonment and attempted murder, Mother ( Mary Steenburgen) takes Sarah and her child into the home despite Father's objections. Convinced White has corrupted Evelyn, Thaw publicly shoots him dead.Īn upper-class family resides in New Rochelle, New York, where Father ( James Olson) owns a factory where his wife's Younger Brother ( Brad Dourif) makes fireworks. Millionaire industrialist Harry Kendall Thaw ( Robert Joy) makes a scene when White unveils a nude statue atop Madison Square Garden, modeled after former chorus girl Evelyn Nesbit ( Elizabeth McGovern), Thaw's wife. A newsreel montage depicts turn-of-the-20th-century celebrities including Harry Houdini, Theodore Roosevelt, architect Stanford White ( Norman Mailer), and life in New York City, accompanied by ragtime pianist Coalhouse Walker, Jr. ![]()
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