Fresh
Jamie Foxx's all-encompassing performance in the title role more than justifies the early Oscar gossip it has generated.
Rex Reed, New York Observer
Ray
The extraordinary life story of Ray Charles.
2004 · 2h 32m · PG-13
Drama, Music
Directed by
Taylor Hackford
Overview
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered coupling gospel and country together.
Director and cast
- Taylor Hackford Director
- Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles
- Kerry Washington as Della Bae Robinson
- Regina King as Margie Hendricks
- Harry Lennix as Joe Adams
- Clifton Powell as Jeff Brown
- Bokeem Woodbine as Fathead Newman
- Sharon Warren as Aretha Robinson
- C.J. Sanders as Young Ray Robinson
- Curtis Armstrong as Ahmet Ertegun
- Richard Schiff Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
79%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Eminently worth seeing.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Fresh
Vibrantly intelligent and tough-minded.
David Denby, New Yorker
Fresh
Sure, it's the Jamie Foxx breakout role. But the movie around it is so systematically 'inspirational' that it comes perilously close to sabotaging the breakout.
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture
Fresh
Foxx does what he's supposed to. He steals his own show.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
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