Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 152 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered coupling gospel and country together.
- blindness and impaired vision
- country music
- jazz
- loss of loved one
- overdose
- bus ride
- georgia
- melancholy
- record producer
- biography
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jamie Foxx
Ray Charles
Kerry Washington
Della Bea Robinson
Regina King
Margie Hendricks
Harry Lennix
Joe Adams
- Clifton Powell — Jeff Brown
- Bokeem Woodbine — Fathead Newman
- Sharon Warren — Aretha Robinson
- C.J. Sanders — Young Ray Robinson
- Curtis Armstrong — Ahmet Ertegun
- Richard Schiff — Jerry Wexler
- Larenz Tate — Quincy Jones
- Terrence Howard — Gossie McGee
- David Krumholtz — Milt Shaw
- Wendell Pierce — Wilbur Brassfield
- Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor — Mary Ann Fisher
- Directed
- Taylor Hackford
- Written
- James L. White, Taylor Hackford
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 2,267 ratings
- Studio
- Bristol Bay Productions, Universal Pictures, Anvil Films, Baldwin Entertainment Group
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
