The Soloist (Blu-ray) PG-13
Life has a mind of its own
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 57 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: October 24, 2017
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jamie Foxx & Robert Downey Jr. | |
Performer: | Catherine Keener, Tom Hollander, LisaGay Hamilton, Nelsan Ellis, Rachael Harris & Stephen Root | |
Directed by | Joe Wright | |
Edited by | Paul Tothill | |
Screenwriting by | Susannah Grant | |
Composition by | Dario Marianelli | |
Produced by | Gary Foster & Russ Krasnoff | |
Director of Photography: | Seamus McGarvey | |
Executive Production by | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Jeff Skoll & Patricia Whitcher |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
A deliriously imperfect film - and all the better for it.
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Time Out
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 mentally ill musician.
Hollywood Reporter
Rating: 2/5 --
A handsomely made but tonally uncertain film; it's unsure whether to be an old-fashioned inspirational heartwarmer, or a paranoid prose-poem about ruined lives on the city's dangerous margins.
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Guardian
[I]ts commitment to the material feels honest, nowhere more so than in Mr. Downey's darkly shaded, nuanced performance, one that deepens this film with its insistence on the fundamental mysteries of human character.
New York Times
3 stars out of 4 -- The cello's evocative, often melancholy sound envelops THE SOLOIST, highlighting the poignant appeal of this heartfelt film.
USA Today
Rating: 4/5 --
The Soloist has its imperfections, but its ambition trumps them.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Rating: 2/5 --
Ultimately, the reason that The Soloist fails is because the writer and the director have been bamboozled by the seriousness of the subject matter.
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Times (UK)
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.
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.