Atonement director Joe Wright tells the real-life story of classical instrumentalist Nathaniel Ayers (Jamie Foxx), rescued from the busking gutter by LA journalist Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr). The potential Oscar-kicker? He’s schizophrenic. Oh, and screenwriter Susannah Grant has plenty of previous with ‘issue’ movies (she wrote Erin Brockovich). Let’s just hope that, unlike Atonement, Wright eases up on the number of eggs he slings into the, umm, cine-pudding.

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