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Genres:

Drama, Biography

Rating:

PG-13

Language:

English

Director:

Taylor Hackford

Actors:

Jamie Foxx
Regina King
Harry J. Lennix
Terrence Howard
Kerry Washington
Larenz Tate

 

 

 

 

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The biopic of Ray Charles, from childhood to success as a musician.

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sapien 01/23/2010 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

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I found this movie to be a delight to watch... and listen to!

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Alex 06/26/2007 (1 of 1 found this helpful)

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2.5/4 

All of these biopics seem about the same. Walk the Line and Ray are almost identical in story and execution. Fox gives a perfect performance as often I thought I was listening to Ray Charles and watching him as well. Forgettable but OK.

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  Ichabod Crane
Ichabod Crane
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11/23/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Musical biopic okay but fails in many ways.

This musical biopic which is I suppose the first one of them is okay but not great. It follows Ray story very closely almost too closely actually. It just shows him play and keep playing meeting various other famous people, and singing some more. Each meeting is not all too complicated or well done, and it then goes to his drug problems until they get too severe then he recovers from that too. Nothing is that well done or really has that much of depth. Another problem is I thought this and late Walk the Line both fail from really showing them become popular or their overall effect on the country. You never see that they become popular apparently but you are never truly shown how or why.

Oscar Win Best Actor Jamie Fox 2/5- Fox does not actually sing himself, and mostly just does a non ...

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  Freddie
Freddie
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10/24/2008 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Same 'ol song

Jamie Foxx well deserved the Oscar for this movie. I personally am quite sick of watching movies about all these tormented stars who are so brilliant but behind the scenes they coke up. It's just not interesting anymore. But as for Foxx's and Washington's performances, they were excellent.

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