Rating: PG13
Genre:
Drama
Theatrical Release: 04/24/2009(USA)
Release Date: 08/04/2009
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 116 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Profanity, Drug Content
Distributor/Studio: Dreamworks Video
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.
~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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