The soloist

Cast
• Jamie Foxx
• Robert Downey
• Catherine Keener
• Tom Hollander
• Lisa Gay Hamilton
• Rachael Hamilton
• Jena Malone
• Diana Gomes
Budget: 60 Million dollars

Director: Joe Wright

Writers: Susannah Grant (screen) and Steve Lopez (book)

Production Company: DreamWorks, Universal pictures

Official Reviews : Based on a book by Steve Lopez, a Los Angeles Times journalist, it deals with the plight of Nathaniel Ayres (Jamie Foxx), a homeless schizophrenic and gifted musician. Lopez (Robert Downey Jr) discovers him, playing Beethoven exquisitely on a violin with two strings and writes human-interest columns about him that capture the public’s imagination (Telegraph)

The Soloist bucks the trend by pulling a bait-and-switch: going in it seems obvious that this will be the story of Nathaniel Ayers (Jamie Foxx), former student at the prestigious Julliard music school turned crazy homeless man on the streets of Los Angeles, who gradually reclaims both his dignity and his sanity under the watchful eye of well-meaning newspaper columnist Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr). (The vive)