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Hollywood heavyweights Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. team up in this drama based on a true story. Foxx (RAY) stars as Nathaniel Ayers, a homeless man with remarkable musical talent, and Downey Jr. (IRON MAN) plays a writer who realizes the man's gift. ATONEMENT and PRIDE AND PREJUDICE filmmaker Joe Wright moves away from historical Britain to direct this film.

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ProducerGary Foster, Russ Krasnoff

EAN5050582745726

eBay Product ID (ePID)72572058

Product Key Features

ActorJamie Foxx, Tom Hollander, Robert Downey Jr, Catherine Keener, Lisa Gay Hamilton

Film/TV TitleThe Soloist

DirectorJoe Wright

LanguageEnglish

Subtitle LanguageArabic\Danish\English\Finnish\Hungarian\Icelandic\Norwegian\Swedish

Run Time113 Mins

Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen

Release Year2010

FormatDVD

FeaturesFeature Commentary by Director Joe Wright\Deleted Scenes\Making Of\'juilliard' Featurette, Widescreen, With Subtitles

GenreDrama, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate12A/12

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

ComposerDario Marianelli

Executive ProducerEric Fellner, Tim Bevan

Additional InformationAcademy Award-nominated ATONEMENT director Joe Wright teams with screenwriter Susannah Grant to tell the true-life story of Nathaniel Ayers, a former cello prodigy whose bouts with schizophrenia landed him on the streets after two years of schooling at Juilliard. Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.) is a disenchanted journalist stuck in a dead-end job. His marriage to a fellow journalist having recently come to an end, Steve is wandering through Los Angeles' Skid Row when he notices a bedraggled figure playing a two-stringed violin. The figure in question is Ayers (Jamie Foxx), a man whose promising career in music was cut short due to a debilitating bout with mental illness. The more Lopez learns about Ayers, the greater his respect grows for the troubled soul. How could a man with such remarkable talent wind up living on the streets, and not be performing on-stage with a symphony orchestra? Later, as Lopez embarks on a quixotic quest to help Ayers pull his life together and launch a career in music, he gradually comes to realize that it is not Ayers whose life is being transformed, but his own.

ReviewsTime Magazine - A deeply empathetic exploration of mental illness and a winning showcase for the talents of its two stars, Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx, The Hollywood Reporter - Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx are on fire in the lead roles: They're both charismatic as hell without sacrificing any of the emotional honesty necessary for you to believe that these movie stars are a scruffy reporter and a mentally ill musician., Hollywood Reporter - This film version takes a somewhat romanticized view of both journalism and skid row yet is nevertheless a compassionate and compelling look at mental illness, Empire - Intelligent and uncompromising, with knock-out performances from Downey Jr. and Foxx ., The Wall Street Journal - Mr. Wright and his colleagues have made a movie with a spaciousness of its own, a brave willingness to explore such mysteries of the mind and heart as the torture that madness can inflict, and the rapture that music can confer. Bravo to all concerned.

ScreenwriterSusannah Grant

AuthorSteve Lopez

Sound sourceDolby Digital

Movie/TV TitleThe Soloist

Director of PhotographySeamus McGarvey

Consumer AdviceContains one use of strong language, moderate threat and drug use