Ray
Title:
Ray
Author:
Summary:
Flashing back intermittently to dream-like scenes from his hardscrabble rural childhood, "Ray" chronicles Ray Charles' remarkable rise from sideman and Chitlin Circuit fixture to innovator, icon, and international superstar. Yet even as Charles ascends to the heights of the musical and cultural elite, he remains hobbled by heroin addiction and compulsive womanizing, a prisoner to his own insatiable needs. Through it all, Ray Charles possessed a rock-solid confidence in his music, a statement of faith in the inclusiveness of American culture. Ray Charles made a place for himself in the America of the '40s and '50s, and promptly transcended the barriers that defined what that place was. He incorporated and encompassed R & B, soul, rock and roll, blues, jazz, country, pop, gospel--all American music--giving us the lush sounds he had always heard in his head, unifying America's disparate musical bits into a cohesive whole.
Audience:
MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for depiction of drug addiction, sexuality and some thematic elements.
General Note:
Disc 1 Includes both an extended version and the theatrical version of the film.
Edition:
Widescreen.
Contents:
Main titles/Seattle bound -- Talent night -- Golden goose -- To the piano born -- Chitlin' circuit -- Unnatural death -- No tears -- Messing around -- Hummingbird -- New Ray Charles -- Devil music -- On the road -- Double life -- Cat fight -- Junkie -- Improvising -- Disharmony -- Moving on -- M.O.R. -- Breaking the rules -- Battling Jim Crow -- Busted -- Going country -- State of the art -- Broken hearts -- Border crossing -- Rehab -- Salvation/End titles
Disc 2. Special features: Deleted scenes [with optional commentary by director Taylor Hackford] (28 min.); Extended musical scenes (5 min.); Stepping into the part [featurette] (11 min.); Ray remembered [featurette] (4 min.); A look inside "Ray" (4 min.); Theatrical trailer (3 min.); Previews (4 min.).
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (153 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Author(s):
Publisher:
Universal Pictures Co. : Distributed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment,
Publication Date:
2005
2004
ISBN:
9781417022076
9781417042920
9781417047451
Publication Information:
Universal City, CA : Universal Pictures Co. : Distributed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment, c2005.
Award Note:
Academy Award Winner, 2005: Best actor (Jamie Foxx)
Call Number:
DVD RAY