Ray Charles
12) Ballad in blue
Publisher
Studio Canal
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In London for a series of concerts, Ray Charles befriends David, a confused young child who recently lost his sight. Realizing the terrifying struggle that is going on inside the boy, Ray Charles uses his timely understanding and the magic of his music to set David on the right track to face the complicated operation that may restore his vision.
15) Ray
Language
English
Description
Flashing back intermittently to dream-like scenes from his hardscrabble rural childhood, "Ray" chronicles Ray Charles' remarkable rise from sideman and Chitlin Circuit fixture to innovator, icon, and international superstar. Yet even as Charles ascends to the heights of the musical and cultural elite, he remains hobbled by heroin addiction and compulsive womanizing, a prisoner to his own insatiable needs. Through it all, Ray Charles possessed a rock-solid...
Language
English
Description
After Jake Blues is release from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit the old home where they were raised by nuns. They learn the church is no longer supporting the institution and will sell the place to the education authority. The only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within the next 11 days. The brothers want to help and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the the money by staging a...