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The Soloist
In an attempt to improve his work, Step Lopez, a young ambitious Los Angeles journalist, who faces many challenges in work that was about to leave him jobless, meets a homeless musician, whom he wants to write his story, the thing that shocked him.
22 September 1967, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
29 June 1980, London, England, UK
4 April 1960, Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]
3 September 1970, Eugene, Oregon, USA
1970, Santa Monica, California, USA
21 January 1981, Sterling, Massachusetts, USA
15 November 1984, Smithtown, Long Island, New York, USA
12 January 1968, Worthington, Ohio, USA
22 February 1981, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
28 January 1966, New York City, New York, USA
May 06, 2010
Develops the feel-good plot in true newspaper style: a few heart tugs followed by a punch in the face.
December 31, 2009
The music's as troubled as the subject matter
January 26, 2011
The Soloist never completely transcends that Hollywood formula feel, but it has enough transcendent moments to make it worth recommending.
January 17, 2010
Una película sobre periodismo y marginalidad, sobre el poder redentor del arte y la solidaridad humana, sostenida por dos buenas actuaciones de Jamie Foxx y Robert Downey Jr.
April 27, 2009
Has its moments, but too heavy-handed and predictable.
December 29, 2010
There's no crescendo in Joe Wright's drama.
September 25, 2009
A deliriously imperfect film - and all the better for it.
April 27, 2009
Tthis is a maudlin, stereotypical story that never moved at all.
April 01, 2011
The subject matter is a little too easy to overdo for that, but it is pretty good, thanks to a pair of fine performances from its leads and a director who understands understatement. And sometimes those can be as rare to find as a genuine musical prodigy.
May 01, 2009
It feels like a puzzle with some significant pieces missing.
June 13, 2009
In the hands of a director more suited to the material The Soloist might have been a deeply moving experience. Here, we know something important is being played out before us, and there are times when it hits home with force. But in their exercise of dram
