Slideshow: 29-Image Gallery From ‘The Soloist’ With Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr.

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Director Joe Wright and Jamie Foxx

CHICAGO – This 29-image slideshow contains the official images from Paramount’s “The Soloist,” starring Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., Caherine Keener, and Lisa Gay Hamilton. The film, directed by Joe Wright, opens on April 24th, 2009.

Synopsis:

“From the director of the Academy Award®-nominated “Atonement,” Joe Wright, and starring Oscar® winner Jamie Foxx and Oscar® nominee Robert Downey Jr., comes this poignant and ultimately soaring tale. It is based on an incredible true story of a disenchanted journalist’s transformative odyssey through the hidden streets of Los Angeles, where he discovers and builds a most unlikely friendship with a man from those same streets, bonding through the redemptive power of music.

Columnist Steve Lopez (Downey) is at a dead end. The newspaper business is in an uproar, his marriage to a fellow journalist has fallen apart and he can’t entirely remember what he loved about his job in the first place. Then, one day, while walking through Los Angeles’ Skid Row, he sees the mysterious bedraggled figure Nathaniel Ayers (Foxx), pouring his soul into a two-stringed violin. At first, Lopez approaches Ayers as just another story idea in a city of millions. But as he begins to unearth the mystery of how this alternately brilliant and distracted street musician, once a dynamic prodigy headed for fame, wound up living in tunnels and doorways, it sparks an unexpected quest. Imagining he can change Ayers’ life, Lopez embarks on a quixotic mission to get him off the streets and back to the world of music. But even as he fights to save Ayers’ life, he begins to see that it is Ayers – with his unsinkable passion, his freedom-loving obstinacy and his valiant attempts at connection and love – who is profoundly changing Lopez.”

You can click “Next” and “Previous” to scan through this slideshow or jump directly to individual photos with the captioned links below. All photos credited to François Duhamel and courtesy of Paramount. All Rights Reserved.

1. soloist_01: Robert Downey Jr.
   
   
2. soloist_02: Robert Downey Jr.
   
   
3. soloist_03: Robert Downey Jr. and Catherine Keener
   
   
4. soloist_04: Robert Downey Jr.
   
   
5. soloist_05: Robert Downey Jr. and Director Joe Wright
   
   
6. soloist_06: Robert Downey Jr.
   
   
7. soloist_07: Jamie Foxx
   
   
8. soloist_08: Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx
   
   
9. soloist_09: Jamie Foxx, Joe Wright, and Robert Downey Jr.
   
   
10. soloist_10: Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr.
    
    
11. soloist_11: Jamie Foxx
    
    
12. soloist_12: Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr.
    
    
13. soloist_13: Director Joe Wright
    
    
14. soloist_14: Director Joe Wright and Jamie Foxx
    
    
15. soloist_15: Lisa Gay Hamilton and Jamie Foxx
    
    
16. soloist_16: Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr.
    
    
17. soloist_17: Robert Downey Jr.
    
    
18. soloist_18: Robert Downey Jr.
    
    
19. soloist_19: Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr.
    
    
20. soloist_20: Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr.
    
    
21. soloist_21: Justin Martin
    
    
22. soloist_22: Jamie Foxx
    
    
23. soloist_23: Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr.
    
    
24. soloist_24: Catherine Keener
    
    
25. soloist_25: Jamie Foxx
    
    
26. soloist_26: Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr.
    
    
27. soloist_27: Jamie Foxx
    
    
28. soloist_28: Jamie Foxx
    
    
29. soloist_29: Jamie Foxx
    
    

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