Genius! Great movie, great acting, great music !!!!

Rating: 10/10 (12 November 2004)

I just saw this film today and it is a moving, realistic representation of the life of musical genius Ray Charles. Jamie Foxx does a magnificent job of capturing Charles's physical traits and mimes the songs believably for the most part. All of the cast does a wonderful job and director Hackford is to be commended for a job well done!! I enjoyed it very much. The period costume and cars took me into an era I can only experience through it's music since I was born in 1961. As a child I listened to Ray Charles during his ABC/Paramount years and as an adult I still get joy from listening to his catalog. See this movie for the memories it brings and see it most of all to learn how a disabled young man became the great Ray Charles.