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| Director
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Taylor Hackford |
| Starring
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Jamie Foxx, Regina King,
Kerry Washington |
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| The plot of
Ray |
Soul
singer Ray Charles' life transpires on-screen,
from his humble beginnings in Georgia, where he
went blind at the age of seven, to his pre-fame
life touring the South, and on to his career as
one of the most enduring, inimitable performers
in modern music. |
| Ray Movie Review |
It's a Shame
About Ray by Michael Atkinson :
For 20 years or more America's most beloved blues wailer
as well as its most thoroughly forgiven celebrity junkie,
Ray Charles is a Hollywood biopic grand slam, a walking,
talking, grinning triumph over disability and poverty
and dope and discrimination. Taylor Hackford's Ray,
for its part, never drops a stitch, methodically working
the rise-and-fall-and-rise formula without a single
consideration for the viewer's self-respect or the possibility
that even famous lives rarely have the shape of stories.
Ray is so reflexive that it often seems to be about
the procedural mechanics of biopics. more..
filmfreakcentral.net :
Jamie Foxx is so mesmerizing as Ray Charles
in Ray, Taylor Hackford's biopic of the legendary performer,
that the typical Hackford-isms threatening to weigh
down the piece don't seem as heavy as they usually do.
At its heart, the film is really just another faux epic
from Hackford: another glimpse at the rise and fall
(and rise) of a uniquely American persona (Everybody's
All-American, An Officer and a Gentleman), another recent-historical
essay, and another picture that begins to feel a little
repetitive in the hermetic rises and falls in action
that comprise such things. But then there's Foxx.
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Tony Isoldi - MovieTony.com :
There's a scene in Ray where Ray Charles has abandoned
his small jazz band for a full symphonic orchestra to
record a new song. The members of his jazz band feel
outraged and betrayed. Charles ignores them. He is obesssed
to keep his music fresh and innovative even at the expense
of friendship. The recording? Georgia on my Mind, one
of the great songs in American music history.
more..
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