Ray Movie Information

Movie Information

Overall Rank: 733

Average Rating: 3/4

# of Ratings: 300

Theatrical Release Date: 10/29/2004

Language: English

Genre: Drama, Biography

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Director: Taylor Hackford

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

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

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Rating of
3.5/4

Logan D. McCoy - wrote on 07/04/2019

While its story goes through the familiar beats of the biopic formula, Jamie Foxx's performance is undoubtedly as smooth as the real Ray Charles.

Rating of
3.5/4

Matthew Brady - wrote on 09/30/2013

Rays demons and frame is more scary then the world.

Rating of
3.5/4

mitchellyoung - wrote on 05/25/2012

Ray does a great job of not glamorizing or diminishing the talents of the late Ray Charles. Jamie Foxx proves that he is more than a comedic actor with a performance that manages to capture Charles' mannerisms without seeming like a caricature. The film's soundtrack, all drawn from previously recorded Ray Charles music, is fantastic.

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Rating of
2.5/4

Musical biopic okay but fails in many ways.

Ichabod Crane - wrote on 11/23/2009

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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