Night at the Movies

Friday night we saw an interesting movie, The Soloist, with Robert Downey, Jr. and Jamie Fox. You probably already know the story line: Downey plays an L.A. columnist, Steve Lopez, looking for a story and happens upon a homeless, mentally-ill man, Jamie Fox, playing a two-stringed violin. The columnist is intrigued with Ayers, the homeless man after he mentions that he attended Julliard. The story tells how Lopez pursues Ayers for his column and even tries to help him, although his ex-wife, who happens to be his current editor at the paper, accuses Lopez of exploiting Ayers for the sake of his column. It is a true story and the music is beautiful. There is some language, but it's not excessive and the scenes of the L.A. ghetto and its sad population of the down and out are so realistic and tragic. I really want to read the book entitled The Soloist: a Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music.

Here is the website for the trailer: http://www.soloistmovie.com/

It was vastly different from the movie we saw last week, 17 Again, but I liked that one too-- although it seemed more of a made-for-TV movie.

Here's the link for that one: http://17againmovie.com/