Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 04/24/09 Home Video 08/04/09 MPAA Rating Rated PG-13 for thematic elements, some drug use and language Running Time 1 hours 49 minutes Genre Drama Director Joe Wright Writer Susannah Grant Cast Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., Rachael Harris Studio Dreamworks/Universal |
THE SOLOIST (2009)
SYNOPSIS
From the director of the Academy Award-nominated
"Atonement," Joe Wright, and starring Oscar winner
Jamie Fox and Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr,.,
comes this poignant and ultimately soaring tale. It is
based on an incredible true story of a disenchanted
journalis's transformative odyssey through the hidden
streets of Los Angeles, where he discovers and builds
a most unlikely friendship with a man from those same
streets, bonding through the redemptive power of
music.
Columnist Steve Lopez (Downey) is at a dead end. The
newspaper business is in an uproar, his marriage to a
fellow journalist has fallen apart and he can't entirely
remember what he loved about his job in the first
place. Then, one day, while walking through Los
Angeles' Skid Row, he sees the mysterious bedraggled
figure Nathaniel Ayers (Foxx), pouring his soul into a
two-stringed violin.. At first, Lopez approaches Ayers
as just another story idea in a city of millions. But as
he begins to unearth the mystery of how this
alternately brilliant and distracted street musician,
once a dynamic prodigy headed for fame, wound up
living in tunnels and doorways, it sparks an
unexpected quest. Imagining he can change Ayers'
life, Lopez embarks on a quixotic mission to get him off
the streets and back to the world of music. But even
as he fights to save Ayers' life, he begins to see that it
is Ayers - with his unsinkable passion, his
freedom-loving obstinacy and his valiant attempts at
connection and love - who is profoundly changing
Lopez.--© Universal/Dreamworks
From the director of the Academy Award-nominated
"Atonement," Joe Wright, and starring Oscar winner
Jamie Fox and Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr,.,
comes this poignant and ultimately soaring tale. It is
based on an incredible true story of a disenchanted
journalis's transformative odyssey through the hidden
streets of Los Angeles, where he discovers and builds
a most unlikely friendship with a man from those same
streets, bonding through the redemptive power of
music.
Columnist Steve Lopez (Downey) is at a dead end. The
newspaper business is in an uproar, his marriage to a
fellow journalist has fallen apart and he can't entirely
remember what he loved about his job in the first
place. Then, one day, while walking through Los
Angeles' Skid Row, he sees the mysterious bedraggled
figure Nathaniel Ayers (Foxx), pouring his soul into a
two-stringed violin.. At first, Lopez approaches Ayers
as just another story idea in a city of millions. But as
he begins to unearth the mystery of how this
alternately brilliant and distracted street musician,
once a dynamic prodigy headed for fame, wound up
living in tunnels and doorways, it sparks an
unexpected quest. Imagining he can change Ayers'
life, Lopez embarks on a quixotic mission to get him off
the streets and back to the world of music. But even
as he fights to save Ayers' life, he begins to see that it
is Ayers - with his unsinkable passion, his
freedom-loving obstinacy and his valiant attempts at
connection and love - who is profoundly changing
Lopez.--© Universal/Dreamworks
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