Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
A drama with fairy tale elements, where an orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents.
DVD Release Date: March 11, 2008
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November 6, 2009Didn't quite live up to my high expectations...Freddie Highmore did an awesome job and I really enjoyed the opening sequence, but overall, it felt like one giant music montage...I felt like the score never stopped playing in the background, and there's a particular development in...( read more)
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September 16, 2009...I think I actually cried at the end...*must have been something in my eye is all..."
If you're not one for sentimentality then it's not for you...this is one of those rare movies you've got to go into with somewhat of a sense of surrender...if you won't allow yourself to belie...( read more) -
July 3, 2009A great movie. The music throughout is amazing, particularly "August's Rhapsody." The story too is great, as Freddie Highmore joins a cast that turns in a beautiful and heart-felt performance. This movie is a must see.
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May 11, 2009Beautiful music, unparalleled optimism and sincere characters. A beautiful twist on creating your own destiny and forcing the hand of fate.
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January 25, 2009very cute, but as the synopsis says "with fairy tale elements" - relied to much on the whole fate thing for my liking.
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November 15, 2009Kirsten Sheridan's directorial debut is a modern-day fairy tale - a thoughtful, unabashedly sentimental and (at times) melodramatic contrivance that only the most hard-hearted cynic could turn away from. Freddie Highmore ("Finding Neverland") plays Evan, an orphan with a gift for...( read more)
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November 12, 2009I absolutely love this movie. On first glance it may look like a sappy love story, but August Rush is an uplifting story of hope and love and destiny. Not to mention the fantastic soundtrack. Freddie Highmore is a wonder, he is fantastic in this role, and Russell and Rhys-Meyers ...( read more)
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Critic Reviews
November 22, 2007
Claudia Puig, USA Today
November 21, 2007
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
The goal is to drive mothers everywhere insane with the urge to rescue him and brush his hair (or the other way around), and in my case it worked. full review
November 21, 2007
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
I dislike sentimentality where it doesn't belong, but there's something brave about the way August Rush declares itself and goes all the way with coincidence, melodrama and skillful tear-jerking. full review
November 21, 2007
Pete Hammond, Maxim
It can be admired for trying something a little different from the usual family film, but in the end, it just doesn't work. At all. full review
November 20, 2007
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
If Charles Dickens were alive today, he might be writing projects like August Rush, the unabashedly sentimental tale of a plucky orphan lad who falls in with streetwise urchins as he seeks the family ... full review
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March 23, 2009A boy named Evan Taylor (Freddie Highmore) lives in an orphanage believes his parents are alive: an Irish guitarist & lead singer of a rock band named Louis Connelly(Jonathan Rhys Meyers) & a famous concert cellist named Lyla Novacek (Keri Russell) is a music teacher in Chicago. Evan believes the music that he hears all around him.
Evan Taylor meets a counselor, Richard Jeffries (Terrence Howard), of the New York Child Services Department.
Lyla gave birth to a son when she discovers her 11 years old son named Evan Taylor is alive.
Evan impresses with his natural musical talent is a music prodigy enrolled at the Juilliard School as "August Rush." Lyla has discovered Evan's identity & she decided to stay in New York while searching for her son.
Louis races to the park when he sees Evan's pseudonym along with Lyla's name on a sign billing the concert. Evan turns around to see Lyla & Louis standing hand in hand makes the connection that they are his parents. -
July 29, 2008I really enjoyed this movie. I thought it was pretty amazing how August(Evan) played the guitar.
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May 26, 2008Listen you dont have to like the movie but dont ruin it for everyone else!
i personally LOVED this movie. JRM was hot, i love freddie highmore and keri russell was incredible! not to mention the story! it was so amazing! i didnt cry but i was shaking for a good 10 minutes after the credits were over!
and to those unbelievers:
would you say that oliver twist was a(and i quote) "sentimental, syrupy, puke filled drivel" because in case you were wondering all august rush is and was is a remake of oliver twist! -
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May 25, 2008It was awful! What a sentimental, syrupy, puke filled drivel this was. Even it's knowledge of music instruments was below any IQ.
I'm sorry, there is certain sentimentality i can take, but spilling my guts out in the aisle says it all. This film was more gruesome than any other horror film i saw that year. Forget idiots who go in to see Saw 3 and have the St. John's Ambulence come to their aid, this is good reason to reach for the defibrillator. -
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May 13, 2008this movie was good.
freddie highmore is only 16 and is an amazing actor.
one of the best!
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May 4, 2008good movie with a beautiful message and excellent music, but some scenes look with some of fantasy.
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March 31, 2008I totally love this movie. This is by far the most amazing and cute movie I have seen. It’s a really good family movie. I can’t usually get into movies but this one involves music. The movie soundtrack is lovely, I’m going to get the sound track as soon as possible. I recommend this movie to anyone who loves music. I also seen my art in the movie, the violin that evolving into a tree, it represents life in music.
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