Jamie Foxx does an amazing job playing Ray Charles Robinson in this movie about one of the most beloved entertainers in American history. He has captured the essence of Charles in this dramatic and emotional portrayal. This biography takes place in the early part of Ray’s life when he began his musical career. Segmented throught the film we are drawn back to his early childhood and see how his younger brother died in front of him and how he had to cope with the onset of blindness. The movies dark themed focus on his Herion use and womanizing is prevelant throughout the film and in my mind takes away from the amazing accomplishments he had. In fact the film ends after he goes through rehab and gives up drugs in favor of his family, career and life.

Ray is and emotional film with enough sex, language and drug use to place it far out of our ability to approved it for the family. However, their are many life lessons that can be learned from his indiscretions. The redeeming moral of the film is that no matter how hard you try to hide from yourself, you are always there in the morning. After his rehabilitation, Ray lived on for 40 more years accomplishing more that any other Black performer of his time.