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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 1, 2005
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jamie Foxx & Regina King | |
Performer: | Kerry Washington, Curtis Armstrong, Warwick Davis, Clifton Powell, Harry Lennix, Larenz Tate & Aunjanue Ellis | |
Directed by | Taylor Hackford | |
Edited by | Thomas J. Nordberg & Paul Hirsch | |
Music by | Ray Charles | |
Screenwriting by | James White & Taylor Hackford | |
Composition by | Craig Armstrong | |
Subject: | Ray Charles | |
Produced by | Howard Baldwin, Karen Baldwin & Stuart Benjamin | |
Director of Photography: | Pawel Edelman | |
Executive Production by | Jaime Rucker King |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 2004 -
Best Actor: Jamie Foxx
Entertainment Reviews:
It's a bravura performance, but we never feel that we really know who Ray Charles was, or even that Foxx does.
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Pajiba
Rating: 3.5/4 --
The directing is sure-handed, the script intelligent, and the acting strong, especially the amazing performance from Foxx.
Christianity Today
Rating: 6/10 --
RAY suffers from having not enough story to warrant a feature film and too much talent wasted on caricatures of historical figures. RAY, like last year's BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, is too focused on homage rather than telling a convincing and stirring story.
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JoBlo's Movie Emporium
Rating: 5/5 --
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Movies for the Masses
Foxx feels his way into every groove and tremor of that voice -- the sheer locomotive power of it, and the shades of gravelly tenderness, too.
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 8/10 --
A powerhouse performance piece for Jamie Foxx and a rock solid biopic.
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IGN DVD
[T]he musical numbers are superbly handled. The sound is extraordinary...
Movieline's Hollywood Life
Product Description:
Jamie Foxx stars in this biopic of legendary soul and R&B singer Ray Charles. Skillfully edited and with a keen eye for period detail, the narrative weaves in and out of the past in an interlocking tapestry of the man's rise to fame in the 1950s and '60s. Growing up poor, black, and blind in the rural south, Charles learns--under the tutelage of his tough-love mother (Sharon Warren)--to turn these handicaps into assets. With this training, Ray eventually plays his way into a major deal with Paramount records and earns icon status as an American legend. Along the way, the high cost of fame leads him to engage in abusive relationships, manipulative behavior, and struggles with drug and alcohol problems. This is a dynamite film for the music alone (Charles's actual recordings are used in the film), but Foxx's career-benchmark performance transcends RAY's biopic roots, turning this into a piercing, full-on character study: unflinching, sometimes harrowing, and ultimately deeply moving. The sheer joy of Charles's music comes alive in Foxx's movements, and his character matures convincingly and powerfully. A stellar supporting cast is on hand to back him up every step of the way, including Larenz Tate as producer Quincy Jones, and Kerry Washington as Ray's long-suffering wife, Regina.
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- UPC: 025192594427
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