Executive Producers: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Jeff Skoll and Patricia Whitcher
Producer: Gary Foster and Russ Krasnoff
Based on the Book by Steve Lopez
Screenplay: Susannah Grant
Director: Joe Wright
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., Catherine Keener, Tom Hollander and Lisa Gay Hamilton
In The Soloist, an emotionally soaring drama about the redemptive power of music, journalist Steve Lopez (Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr.) discovers Nathaniel Anthony Ayers (Oscar winner Jamie Foxx), a former classical music prodigy, playing his violin on the streets of L.A. As Lopez endeavors to help the homeless man find his way back, a unique friendship is formed, one that transforms both their lives. The Soloist is directed by Joe Wright (Golden Globe winner for Best Drama and Oscar nominee for Best Picture Atonement).
Release Date: November 21, 2008
Posted by Rene on Aug 1st, 2008
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Tags: biography, Catherine Keener, drama, Jamie Foxx, Joe Wright, Lisa Gay Hamilton, music, Robert Downey Jr, Steve Lopez, Tom Hollander
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April 22nd, 2009 at 6:07 am
To all the writers/producers of The Soloist, I just want to let you know that I am working night and day to organize a boycott of your film. I think Steve Lopez is slimier than pond scum for his blatant exploitation of Mr. Ayers. And to think these tragic circumstances all came about because Mr. Lopez was simply desperate to meet his next deadline. Mr. Lopez has discovered no greater humanity, but merely self-aggrandizement, presumptuousness, arrogance and God-complex (not only feeling one knows what is best for another human being, but also acting on his feeling to direct another person’s life). If his own fame and/or fortune has been enhanced one whit through this, it is indecent. You don’t know for a fact that Mr. Ayers is happier now that you have made him a headline, you merely rationalize it that way. He may have been quite content to just play music in his tunnel.