Jamie Foxx deserves an Oscar nomination for his performance as Ray Charles.

Rating: 8/10 (1 November 2004)

Jamie Foxx deserves an Oscar nomination for his performance as Ray Charles. Jamie Foxx plays the late, great Ray Charles, portraying the singer's life. The movie shows Charles' battle with drug addiction. Also, the movie shows the problems that Ray Charles had with women, like Margie Hendricks played by Regina King. Regina King was also great in the film. Kerry Washington also did a great job playing Della Bea Robinson, the wife of Ray Charles. The movie also goes into further detail about the problems facing Ray Charles in his home life. Another part of the movie that I enjoyed very much were seeing the flashbacks into Ray's childhood describing the origins into his past and see what got him interested in music and how he became blind in the first place. The child who played Ray Charles as a young kid did a fantastic job as well, and deserves some sort of recognition for his work on the film. The overall plot was fantastic and the filmmakers did a great job portraying Ray Charles. Overall I gave this movie 8 out of 10