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August Rush Movie Review

Atlanta, Ga. 11/27/2007 06:55 PM GMT (FINDITT)

August Rush, the musical prodigy also known as Evan, (played by Freddie Highmore) is rudely abandoned at birth from his would be controlling grandfather Thomas Novacek (played by William Sadler). Sadler plays the father of Augusts’ mother Lyla Novacek (played by Keri Russell). Lyla Novacek who hooks up for a one-night-stand with (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) who plays Louis Connely. The movie is intended to be a feel good movie that uses one mistake after another from people that have enough sense not to make them in the first place but for some reason they do.

Both Russell and Meyers characters establish themselves as educated and in Keri Russell’s case quite affluent. Yet she meets Louis Connelly on a roof top at a party, hears Robin Williams singing down below in Washington Square Park, and decides to have unprotected sex and leave in the morning. Why not, they are two musicians what else would they do.

As the film plays out Lyla Novacek is rushed to the hospital due to an accident and her dad signs August away without his daughter’s knowledge.

The movie goes on from there to introduce Terrence Howard as a New York City Social Worker who actually cares. He meets August and does something for August he never does. August hears things in his body throughout the film that leads him to believe his parents know he is alive and that they never wanted to give him away.

August runs away from the orphanage and meets up with Robin Williams who plays Maxwell ‘Wizard’ Wallace, the same musician that serenaded Russell and Meyers that blissful night that two highly intelligent people acted out sexually to produce what would later become August Rush, the child prodigy that ends up at Julliard to become the youngest student to have a symphony played in Central Park. Coincidence or poor writing the same night his Mother will be performing at the same show and his Dad realizes he has to be there to see Augusts’ Mother after his first performance back with his old band. Give me a barf bag as I write this I realize how bad this plays out but I did enjoy the music of August and his guitar playing.

The movie is entertaining even though it is not believable at all.

The ending is debatable but the whole film is flawed. It does make one feel good if you need that.

Other feel-good Films Like August Rush:

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Written by movie staff

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