“What could have been a maudlin exercise in sentimentality – the unlikely relationship between a homeless street musician and a Los Angeles Times metro columnist – becomes a soul-stirring tribute to ...

Based on a true story, The Soloist tells the tragic tale of Nathaniel Ayers, a once promising Julliard student who ends up on the streets of Los Angeles' skid row. He is befriended by Steve Lopez - a ...

If you’ve seen the trailer for “The Soloist” — in which Robert Downey Jr. plays a journalist who befriends, and tries to help, a schizophrenic and homeless man played by Jamie Foxx — you probably ...

In the new hit movie The Soloist, Nathaniel Ayers, a homeless man making beautiful music on a downtown L.A. street, is asked by journalist Steve Lopez about his hopes and dreams. "That's easy," Mr.