Ray [Blu-ray]

My piano teacher recommended this movie to me back when it first came out. I put off watching it for a while but finally got around to it back in 2022. I just bought the DVD just the other day and I am sure that it will be even more better then before. Ray Charles was a gifted person and he is TRULY MISSED!!!!!

Great movie on the history of a blind man who plays the piano. You will want to keep rewatching

Fantastic story about a fantastic man. Ray Charles was a very unusual person, with his own difficulties.

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Ray is a 2004 film based on the true story of Rhythm & Blues Musician Ray Charles Robison raised on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida and went blind at the age of 7 shortly after seeing his younger brother drowning in a small washing tub , inspired by his hard working mother who insisted he makes his own way into the world and learned piano at an early age from a local and grew up to be a pretty good piano , keyboard player touring chitlin circuit till he gained a reputation making it world wide playing and singing classics that are played on the radio today : Rhythm & Blues , Jazz , Rock & Roll , Gospel and Country . I bought the DVD when first released from Amazon and now again on Blu Ray for an Excellent price just under $ 8 dollars and recently upgraded to a 65 inch Sony 4K TV with an Excellent picture , A film directed and intro by Taylor Hackford with an Excellent performance by Cast especially Jamie Foxx did such a great job acting and playing the piano just like the real Ray with special features and interview with the real Ray and Jamie Fox with complete music performances from the movie including Ray & Raelettes performing Hit The Road Jack , Stepping into the part , A revealing look at Jamie Foxx's transformation into Ray Charles including a Jam session between the actor and the real Ray , Ray Remembered : Friends & Fellow musicians remember Ray Charles . Feature commentary with director Taylor Hackford , A look inside Ray , The Filmmakers Journey , The Woman of Ray and Ray and American Story , Ray is an Excellent Movie for a Great Price .

Nice movie, great cast and very informative about Ray’s life.

This movie will forever remain a classics and I highly recommend it to all. Long live Ray Charles 💜

The movie Ray Charles is musically explosive! Great movie. Ray had a sad childhood. And his mother died way too young. She didn’t get to see her son become successful nor did she get to enjoy his prosperity. Nothing is more sad. No wonder he ended up using drugs to try to escape his deep seated pain! He ended up marrying a great Christian woman. I LOVED this movie! First time I saw it was 12/25/2022. This movie is great! It will make you cry, laugh and sing! Triple whammy. I grew up in San Francisco and saw RC live in the city I was born in and love. Jamie Foxx and Kerry Washington should have won an Academy Award for great acting! Ray Charles will always be the “King of Blues & Gospel!” He had God given talent. Like the best of us singers.

It took me a long time to finally get round to watching 'Ray'. The wait was well worth it - this is a terrific biopic - but not just a biopic, this is an outstanding movie on any terms. Whether a fan or not (I wasn't) most everyone will be aware at some level of Ray Charles' music. He's made that big an impact. This movie endeavours to show two periods of his life. The principal part of the movie follows his rise to fame, and corresponding fall into drug use and infidelity, climaxing in his redemption, kicking the habit, and recommitting his lfe as a husband and an entertainer. The second strand is told in flashback, showing Ray as a boy, before and during the process of him becoming blind - explaining (perhaps a little too neatly for some peoples taste) his need to escape into drugs, and how he managed to overcome the constraints of blindness with the help of his mothers tough guidance. His mother is clearly the key character in his life, teaching him firmly but with love how to enhance his sense of hearing and touch in order to compensate for his blindness. His mothers words echo frequently through the movuie when she says, 'Always remember your promise to me. Never let nobody or nothing turn you into no cripple.'. These two tales interweave almost seamlessly, showing not just the facts but the effects on the older man of the younger mans history. As an adult, the cinematography might be beautiful and the tones warm and rich, but Ray the man is shown warts and all - this is a man who used people shamelessly, not least the women in his life, and the movie does not shirk from showing him in those terms. This has the effect of really drawing you in. Instead of a whitewashed version of his life, you feel you are scratching the surface of a person just a little here, and it makes for fascinating viewing because it rings true. Taylor Hackford the director has done an incredible job of creating striking visuals, from the dusty ochre coloured streets of his youth, through to smoky bars, and on to the over the top glitz of LA and swanky nightclubs - all the period settings ring true and are shot to perfection. You can tell this was a labour of love - in fact, Hackford bought the rights to the story back in 1987, but could not find a studio release - it was only after independent financing that Universal studio stepped in to facilitate its release. It must be a matter of some satisfaction to him that Ray Charles was able to see the first edit of the movie before he died, before the movie was actually released. Then there is the acting - much has been said of Jamie Foxx's acting here, and it's all true- he embodies the part in a way which is uncanny - his efforts, going to Braille school, wearing prosthetics which made him blind during shooting, studying Ray Charles himself, have really paid off. However this is a performance made up of more than gimmics and prosthetics, this is the performance of a lifetime, giving the character real depth and depth of reality. Then there is the supporting cast - i cant even name them, because every role in the movie rings ttrue, a credit to the casting and to the actors. All in all, sure there are bound to be more truths to be told about his life, but this will certainly be the best biopic made of his life, and comes at a most fitting time. terrific cast, script, cinematography and direction - a real winner. post script - almost left no room to mention - the 2 disc version comes laden with extras on both the movie and ray - with delted scenes and extended musical scenes. Worth watching, when you think that Jamie Foxx did all the piano playing himself!

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It took around 10 days for Blue Dart to deliver my package. About movie, this is one great movie plus I got it for Rs 327.00 only which was a great deal.

Un film sulla vita di Ray Charles, un grande artista. Ci sono un sacco di brani musicali ma non è il classico musical sdolcinato, anzi, alcune scene iniziali sono piuttosto commoventi. Se vi piace il blues è un film da non perdere.

This was a great movie, Jamie Fox played Ray Charles amazingly.