Ray

With Foxx assuming the title role in a performance of intensity, breadth and truth, Ray follows the most volatile period of Charles' career - born in a poor town in Georgia, he went blind at the age of seven shortly after witnessing his younger brother's accidental death. Inspired by a fiercely independent mother who insisted he make his own way in the world, Charles found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. The real journey begins the moment this young, black, blind teenager courageously boards a Florida bus all alone and heads across the United States to hone his art in the happening Seattle jazz scene. From Ray's early struggles to be treated fairly and find his own path, to his discovery by Atlantic Records and subsequent meteoric rise to global fame, to his battles with addiction and his torrid love affairs, the journey of Ray leads not only forward but back to Ray's youth. For, even as he becomes one of his generation's greatest musical heroes, he is forced to come to terms with his brother's death and the period in his life when he began to lose his vision—a time that had an indelible effect on Ray's drive, emotions and immortal music.

Ray is directed by acclaimed filmmaker Taylor Hackford; screenplay by James L White, from a story by Hackford and White; and produced by Hackford, Stuart Benjamin, Howard Baldwin and Karen Baldwin.

Released by UIP on the 21st January 2005.
Certificate - 15
Running Time - 2hrs 32 minspage << 1 2 >>