Bardlerx Strictly average movie

Blucher One of the worst movies I've ever seen

FrogGlace In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

MartinHafer "August Rush" is a modern fairy tale that is based on "Oliver Twist". However, while it shares many story elements, the film diverges from the novel in many ways...so much so that it truly is a unique viewing experience.When the film begins, two young musicians meet, have a one-night stand and are soon separated by her father. This father turns out to be a very manipulative person, because when he discovers his daughter is pregnant, he arranges for her to believe the child died at birth....though he instead put the child up for adoption and forged her name to the surrender papers.Years pass and now the boy, Evan, is living in a miserable orphan asylum. He is ridiculed by the other kids because Evan has a strange gift....a musical talent that makes him more than just a prodigy...more like a savant with super-human musical skills.Eventually, Evan escapes from this facility and ends up in New York City. At the same time, inexplicable forces draw his mother (who JUST learned her baby was not dead) and his father to the city as well. While the viewer knows what will eventually happen, there is still much film to go...during which you see Evan's amazing talents burst forth AND an evil manipulator, 'the Wizard' (Robin Williams, sees the boy's potential and takes him in and puts him to work. However, the Wizard is no humanitarian....he's pretty much like Fagan from "Oliver Twist"...a man who keeps a hoard of runaways and uses them as buskers to make himself rich. How will Evan escape the clutches of this evil man? And, how will he locate his parents? This film is very magical in style....with wonderful music and so much to like. Yes, it IS predictable...but it's also lovely in how it gets to where you think it should go. Well worth seeing and a nice family film.

Unhelpful Yoda I watched this film today. It had me in tears. What a beautiful movie. The little boy is played by Freddie Highmore who I think is a great actor for his age. I haven't seen many of his films but he played the part beautifully. It is about a orphan boy who is musically intelligent and he leaves his boys home to go to NYC to look for his birth parents. His mother played by Keri Russell, was told by her father that the little baby boy was killed but in fact he was put up for adoption by him. When she learns that he is still alive she goes to find him. Keri Russell played the part of his mother really well. I'm not a big fan of Jonathan Rhys Meyers but he was OK in this film. The ending was so touching and it will definitely pull on your heart strings. A lovely film and definitely worth watching!

Amlan Kar August Rush (Evan Taylor) is a musically gifted orphan whose parents' love had blossomed from their appreciation of music and its majestic beauty. Evan's mother, Lyla Novacek is a gifted Cellist who hails from a family of wealth and power while his father, Louis Connelly is a multi-talented musician making his name in the lower levels of the music industry with energetic performances along with his band. They meet during one of his shows where their love buds out of their appreciation of the music in everything. They spend the night together after which Lyla's father, Thomas, who orchestrates Lyla's life to lead her to fame and recognition, forces Lyla away from Louis. But Lyla is left with Evan, whom she swears to protect with her life. Evan is born just after Lyla meets with an accident. Seizing the opportunity, Thomas sends Evan away to an orphanage before Lyla regains consciousness. The movie then follows Evan's adventure as he tries to reunite with his mother and father through his music.Kirsten Sheridan directs this wonderful movie, and the viewer comes away from it with a new found multidimensional appreciation for the mystic enchantments of music. Since seeing the movie, I have become an avid listener of the rhythms of the everyday hustle-bustle, the streets and the sounds made by animals, horns, drills, bells and the trample of feet on the sidewalks. The movie exhibits impeccable music direction by Marc Mancina combined with fluidic direction and flawless execution.I am especially fond of the many scenes in the film where August gets in the groove and loses himself in the music. He reveals the deep pleasure of letting go and following the creative flow. August Rush makes it clear that people like Lyla and Louis can make beautiful music together for one night that can play in their hearts for years. The movie also teaches us that we all need mentors to cheer us on so that the magic of the music can lead us where it wants us to go. And, most importantly, August Rush reminds us that the yearning of the heart is the best music of all for that is how we reach out to each other and discover the love that binds us together.

Andrew Parker This movie is really awesome. I think it sends a good moral message about the beauty of life and the gift that children are. I really liked this film even though some parts of it I don't agree with (premarital sex for example), but what is interesting is that even though Lyla got pregnant, she decided to keep her child. Many people today would have told her to have an abortion or something but she kept it even though she did not have a father to raise her child with. This movie wonderfully shows the value and worth of the human person and that every child should have a chance to live. Later when Evan is grown up we as the audience are presented with a lovable character who is so gifted and talented with music, that we can't help but fall in love with his character. It is kind of sad however that such a talented and lovable kid is being raised in an orphanage when he deserves two parents who are committed in marriage.But this is seriously one of my favorite movies, it's a feel good movie but at the same time it presents an accurate and realistic depiction of what happens in our society today, people don't want to have kids, people don't respect other human beings, etc, etc. This movie puts a personal character in our faces and helps us to see humanity and life for what it really is and how valuable and awesome it is to be human, and what a gift our lives are.