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Title The soloist
Published [Millers Point, N.S.W.] : Universal Pictures (Australasia) [distributor], [2010]
©2010

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 MELB  791.4372 Wri/Sol  AVAILABLE
Description 1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Summary "Journalist Steve Lopez discovers Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, a former classical music prodigy, playing his violin on the streets of L.A. As Lopez endeavors to help the homeless man find his way back, a unique friendship is formed, one that transforms both their lives"--Container
Notes "8274264."
Originally released as a motion picture in 2008
Based on the book "The soloist : a lost dream, an unlikely friendship, and the redemptive power of music" by Steve Lopez
Special features: Feature commentary by Joe Wright, Deleted scenes, An unlikely friendship: making The soloist, Featurette: Juilliard
Credits Directed by Joe Wright ; screenplay by Susannah Grant
Cast Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr
Notes Censorship classification: M
PAL ; Regions 2, 4 and 5
In English or Hungarian. Arabic, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish subtitles. English captions for the hard of hearing
Subject Ayers, Nathaniel Anthony -- Drama.
Lopez, Steve -- Drama.
African American homeless persons -- California -- Los Angeles -- Drama.
Mentally ill homeless persons -- California -- Los Angeles -- Drama.
Cellists -- California -- Los Angeles -- Drama.
Journalists -- California -- Los Angeles -- Drama.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Video recordings.
Drama.
Author Lopez, Steve.
Wright, Joe, 1972-
Grant, Susannah.
Foxx, Jamie.
Downey, Robert, Jr., 1965-