Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Purely Joyful Movie!

i must have seen a different film!!

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

August Rush (2007) is like a modern day fairytale. The movie is one to be enjoyed and it's meant to enchant it's audience. The plot centers around a young orphan boy who is a musical prodigy. He is on a mission to find his parents, with whom he has never meet. His mother (Keri Russell) is a musician who went to Juliard, she went to a party one night with a girlfriend of hers and ended up having sex with a male band member. She got pregnant as a result of that tryst. She was hit by a car and rushed to the hospital, her very controlling father forged her signature and put the baby up for adoption and told her when she awoke that she'd lost the baby. She doesn't contact the father or anything and they all go their separate ways. About 11 years later, the son is on a search for his parents, claiming he can sense them and he follows the music. The movie really takes off when he is searching for his parents and they are searching for each other too. That's where the fairytale part of the film kicks in. The acting is good for the most part. I really loved Jonathan Rhys Meyers in his role, very good casting decision. Russell was good as Lyla, the mother. And I loved Freddie Highmore as August Rush. He is such a great actor, especially for him to be that young. Robin Williams is good here too, he plays the antagonist, a kind of role he didn't usually play. This movie is just enchanting and I loved it! The writing isn't like Oscar worthy or anything but it's a very well made movie that'll keep your undivided attention the entire way through and will leave you feeling great. 10/10!

Very superficial; appeared to be a movie made for children. Evan, child musical prodigy is searching for his parents. He hears music everywhere he goes from the surrounding environment. He can instantaneously play a guitar, a pipe organ; write a symphony. It's obvious that adult hands are playing instruments when close up is shown of Evan playing an instrument. Plot moves along so fast, skipping details which is why it is perfect for a child. Actor who portrays Evan basically smiles and says "no"; that's pretty much the extent of his dialogue through the entire film. The very end, when his parents come together and see Evan on stage, the film ends. No scene with him re-uniting with parents; nor are we given the gratification of what caused their separation in the first place. Cool idea and would have been a good film if not so poorly executed.

This movie revolves around an orphan named Evan Taylor played by Freddie Highmore. Evan is searching for his parents and driven by the music in his head. This theme propels the "quest". Both mother and father are musicians and their son turns out to be a prodigy Amadeus style. There are Oliver Twist overtones which provides the conflict.Wizard, played by Robin Williams, takes the role of Fagin. New York city urchins give Wizard money they receive busking on the streets. Wizard plans to capitalize on Evan's talent and act as his promoter. August Rush is a name Wizard provides because it has more pop and marketability. The highs and lows through the movie are mild and I was always waiting for the other shoe to drop Hollywood style. It was actually nice that a chainsaw wielding maniac did not show up and ruin everybody's day. There is plenty of acoustic guitar music peppered through the movie, which adds to the experience. Mark Mancina's compositions are exceptional, which makes the soundtrack a compelling purchase.Reviewers claim that the parents hookup is unrealistic or being drawn back together by the boys musical talent is highly unlikely. Every theater goer in world knows you have to check your skepticism in the lobby. To enjoy any film one must suspend their disbelief or not go in the first place. For those who did not like the movie my suggestion is to drive to the sketchy part of town wearing a sandwich board with ethnic slurs written in bold letters. Your day will get real and real quick.

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.