Soloist

Soloist

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2/1/10
DVD Region
2 (UK, Western Europe, Japan)
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Film and TV Genre
Drama, General
Video Format
PAL

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Description

Academy 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.

Plot Synopsis

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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Product Details

Actors
Director
Joe Wright
Audio Format
  • English Dolby Digital 5.1
  • Hungarian Dolby Digital 5.1
CD WOW! Sales Rank
#14943
Language
English
Year of release
2009
Disc Features
  • 'Juilliard' featurette
  • Deleted scenes
  • Feature commentary by director Joe Wright
  • Making Of
Aspect Ratio
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Film Format
Anamorphic
Media Format
DVD-Video
Film Rating (Australia)
M
Number of Discs
1
Film Rating (UK)
12
Run Time (minutes)
113
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Subtitle Language
  • Arabic
  • Danish
  • English
  • Finnish
  • Hungarian
  • Icelandic
  • Norwegian
  • Swedish
Cast & Crew
Steve Lopez (Author)
Dario Marianelli (Composer)
Seamus McGarvey (Director of Photography)
Eric Fellner (Executive Producer)
Tim Bevan (Executive Producer)
Gary Foster (Producer)
Russ Krasnoff (Producer)
Susannah Grant (Screenwriter)

Additional Information

  • Contains one use of strong language, moderate threat and drug use

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