THE SOLOIST

(USA, 2008, 105 mins)

35mm

World Premiere

Cast: Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr, Catherine Keener, Rachael Harris
Producers: Gary Foster, Russ Krasnoff
Executive Producers: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Jeff Skoll, Partricia Whitcher
Director of Photography: Seamus McGarvey
Editor: Paul Tothill
Music: Dario Marianelli

This screening has been canceled. If you have purchased a ticket for this screening you will be contacted for a refund on October 23 and 24. If you have purchased a StarPass for the purpose of attending The Soloist, you may cancel your pass for a full refund. A new Opening Night Film will be added Oct. 24.

From Academy Award®-nominated director Joe Wright (ATONEMENT) and starring Oscar® winner Jamie Foxx and Oscar® nominee Robert Downey Jr., this poignant and ultimately soaring tale is based on an incredible true story of a disenchanted journalist’s transformative odyssey through the hidden streets of Los Angeles, where he discovers and builds an unlikely friendship with a man from those same streets. Columnist Steve Lopez (Downey) is at a dead end. The newspaper business is in an uproar, his marriage has fallen apart and he can’t remember what he loved about his job in the first place. One day, while walking through Skid Row, he sees the mysterious Nathaniel Ayers (Foxx), pouring his soul into a two-stringed violin. At first, Lopez approaches him as just another story idea. But as he begins to unearth the mystery of how this alternately brilliant and distracted street musician, once a dynamic prodigy, wound up living in tunnels and doorways, it sparks an unexpected quest. Imagining he can change Ayers’ life, Lopez embarks on a quixotic mission to get him off the streets and back to the world of music. But as he fights to save Ayers’ life, he begins to see that it is Ayers—with his unsinkable passion, his freedom-loving obstinacy and his valiant attempts at connection and love—who is profoundly changing Lopez.

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