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- Directed by Joe Wright, was written by Susannah Grant, based on a series of columns written by Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez, who chronicled the plight of Nathaniel Ayers, Jr., a musician with schizophrenia, and eventually was chronicled in Lopez's book, The Soloist, which was published in the spring of 2008.
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The Soloist is a 2009 drama film directed by Joe Wright, and starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. The plot is based on the true story of Nathaniel Ayers , a musician who developed schizophrenia and became homeless.
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Apr 24, 2009 · The book inspired the recently released movie The Soloist starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. This interview originally aired April 22, 2008.
Apr 15, 2023 · Yes, ‘The Soloist’ is based on a true story. The screenplay was written by Susannah Grant based on Steve Lopez’s ‘The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music,’ which in turn is based on the columns the journalist wrote about Nathaniel Ayers when they first met each other.
Apr 22, 2009 · Based on a true story, it stars Jamie Foxx as Nathaniel Ayers, a homeless man who was once a musical prodigy, and Robert Downey Jr. as Steve Lopez, the Los Angeles Times columnist who writes a column about him, bonds with him, makes him famous, becomes discouraged by the man's mental illness and -- what?
Apr 22, 2009 · The movie The Soloist is the story of a gifted musician named Nathaniel Ayers whose mental illness drove him from the halls of The Juilliard School in New York to the streets of Los Angeles....
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Apr 24, 2009 · The film is based on a true story involving a top columnist at the LA Times, Steve Lopez, played with grace by Robert Downey Jr., who becomes invested in one of his more colourful subjects, Nathaniel Ayers, an accomplished musician overcome by mental illness, now living on the streets of LA portrayed by Jamie Foxx, who rambles his way to a ...
Apr 24, 2009 · The Soloist is the true story of Lopez's discovery of, and fitful friendship with, Nathaniel Anthony Ayers (Jamie Foxx), a homeless, schizophrenic cello player. Lopez first meets Ayers at a...
