Soul (2020) Movie, Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful gig at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.
Voice cast
- Jamie Foxx as Joe Gardner, a passionate jazz pianist and music teacher whose soul gets separated from his body after an accident
- Tina Fey as 22, a soul trapped in the Great Before with a dim view of life
- Questlove as Lamont “Curley” Baker, a drummer in Dorothea Williams’ band. He is also a former student of Joe’s and was taught how to drum by him
- Phylicia Rashad as Libba Gardner, Joe’s mother
- Daveed Diggs as Paul, Joe’s neighborhood nemesis
- Angela Bassett as Dorothea Williams, a respected jazz musician and saxophone player