Los Angeles columnist Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.) has reached an impasse in his life. His marriage is on the rocks, and he's disillusioned with his job. Then, while wandering through L.A.'s Skid Row, he spots a homeless man (Jamie Foxx) playing a two-stringed violin with a virtuoso's skill. Lopez initially thinks of the man, named Nathaniel Ayers, as just a story idea. But as he begins to unravel the mystery of Ayers' strange fate, Lopez realizes that a change is happening within himself.
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Big stars and touchy-feely story involving some of Hollywood's favorite Important Movie elements - genius and madness cast against a backdrop of the homeless in America - make "The Soloist" kind of a strange movie to be coming out in early spring. (Full review)