The Soloist PG-13

Life has a mind of its own
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  • Rated: PG-13
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 57 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: October 24, 2017
  • Originally Released: 2009
  • Label: Paramount

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 263,366
It's impossible not to be moved by THE SOLOIST, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx....The film is suffused with heartbreak and humanism, as it takes one man's grim story -- early promise, bright future, mental breakdown, despair -- and turns it into a spiritual meditation on friendship.
Washington Post
Apr 24, 2009
Rating: 3/5 -- The revelation of poverty, squalor and mental illness in LA's underclass is horrific. But the film suffers from uncertainty of tone. Full Review
Financial Times
Sep 25, 2009
Rating: 4/5 -- The Soloist has its imperfections, but its ambition trumps them. Full Review
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Sep 25, 2009
The Soloist is an absorbing, illuminating film which is dramatically engaging, keeps it real, in a psychiatric sense, and is never patronising. Full Review
The Spectator
Aug 29, 2018
The Soloist never completely transcends that Hollywood formula feel, but it has enough transcendent moments to make it worth recommending. Full Review
Las Vegas CityLife
Jan 26, 2011
Rating: 2.5/4 -- The film, however, is rather like one of the Bach cello suites mentioned in the movie performed by a technically competent but passionless player - it doesn't assault your senses, but it doesn't excite them, either. Full Review
Washington Times
Dec 7, 2018
Rating: 4/5 -- A deliriously imperfect film - and all the better for it. Full Review
Time Out
Sep 25, 2009

Product Description:

Director Joe Wright (ATONEMENT, PRIDE & PREJUDICE) brings the true story of an unlikely friendship to life in THE SOLOIST. An award-winning columnist with the Los Angeles Times, Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.) ultimately becomes an advocate for L.A.’s homeless population when he meets Nathaniel Ayers (Jamie Foxx), a talented musician who's been playing a two-stringed violin while living on the streets and battling mental illness. Struck by Ayers’s passion for music, Lopez begins to write a series of columns about his new acquaintance while attempting to get him off the streets and playing music again. Amidst numerous achievements and setbacks, Lopez and Ayers develop a friendship based on mutual respect despite their many differences, and Lopez rediscovers his humanity.

While the focus of the film is the relationship that develops between the two men, the film also tackles the harsh realities of homelessness and the plight of the mentally ill. Lending authenticity to the story, a number of L.A.’s homeless population were cast as extras in the film. An additional subplot is the quandary that daily newspapers face as the world and the news increasingly go electronic, and popular news becomes more sensationalistic. Foxx is both heartbreaking and life-affirming as Ayers, whose undiagnosed schizophrenia drove him away from Juilliard as a young man, and whose fierce independence keeps him on the streets. Downey Jr. turns in a nuanced performance as Lopez, who finally realizes that while he may not be able to save Ayers, he can accept him as he is. Catherine Keener, Lisa Gay Hamilton, and Tom Hollander appear in supporting roles.

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  • UPC: 032429287465
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