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Release Date: 2004

Cast: Afemo Omilami, Aunjanue Ellis, David Krumholtz, Tequan Richmond, C.J. Sanders, Kerry Washington, Richard Schiff, Regina King, Bokeem Woodbine, Robert Wisdom, Larenz Tate, Rick Gomez ...MORE

Cast: Afemo Omilami, Aunjanue Ellis, David Krumholtz, Tequan Richmond, C.J. Sanders, Kerry Washington, Richard Schiff, Regina King, Bokeem Woodbine, Robert Wisdom, Larenz Tate, Rick Gomez, Clifton Powell, Patrick Bauchau, Curtis Armstrong, Harry J. Lennix, Jamie Foxx, Elizabeth Omilami, Sharon Warren, Terrence Howard, Ralph Tresvant, Chris Thomas King, Warwick Davis ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Musical, Biography, Musical Drama, Biopic [feature]

Ray is a 2004 biographical film focusing on 30 years of the life of rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles. The independently produced film was directed by Taylor Hackford and starred Jamie Foxx in the title role; Foxx received an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance. Charles was set to attend an opening of the completed film, but he died of liver disease in June, several months before its premiere. Raised on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles Robinson went blind at the age of seven, shortly after witnessing his younger brother's death. Inspired by a... MORE

Ray is a 2004 biographical film focusing on 30 years of the life of rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles. The independently produced film was directed by Taylor Hackford and starred Jamie Foxx in the title role; Foxx received an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance. Charles was set to attend an opening of the completed film, but he died of liver disease in June, several months before its premiere. Raised on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles Robinson went blind at the age of seven, shortly after witnessing his younger brother's death. Inspired by a fiercely independent mother who insisted he make his own way in the world, Charles found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered incorporating gospel, country, jazz and orchestral influences into his inimitable style. As he revolutionized the way people appreciated music, he simultaneously fought segregation in the very clubs that launched him and championed artists’ rights within the corporate music business. The movie provides a portrait of Charles’ LESS