August Rush | 
| Actors: Freddie Highmore, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  310 reviews
Sales Rank: 124
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 113 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: WARD018552D
UPC: 012569763685
EAN: 0012569763685
ASIN: B00133KFGW
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: March 11, 2008
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CELLIST LYLA AND ROCK MUSICAN LOUIS MEET AT A PARTY SPEND THE NIGHT. LYLA LEARNS SHE IS PREGNANT. HER FATHER FORCES THEM APART SHE GETS PREGNANT. LYLA HAS AN ACCIDENT, HER FATHER TELLS HER THE BABY DIED, THE CHILD SURVIVES AND IS GIVE UP FOR ADOPTION THE CHILD(EVAN)11 NOW EMBARKS FINDING HIS PARENTS THROUGH MUSIC
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Music has long been considered a universal language with the power to bring people together, but can the simple act of playing music possibly unite a child with a mother and father who live in two different cities and don't even know of the child's existence? Having shared one extraordinary night, classical cellist Lyla Novacek (Keri Russell) and Irish singer and songwriter Louis Connelly (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) were a union meant to be that was torn apart by circumstances and a protective father (William Sadler). After eleven years, both Lyla and Louis have given up performing only to find that they are unhappy and searching for a sense of fulfillment that will ultimately lead both artists back to music and performing. Evan (Freddie Highmore) is an 11-year old orphan who's grown up hearing music in everything around him and is convinced that his real parents want him and will find him with the help of music. Driven by his innate musical genius and a powerful compulsion to perform before the world, Evan runs away from the orphanage and is initially taken in by a street man known as Wizard (Robin Williams) who encourages his musical talent and renames him August Rush and, later, by a local priest who arranges for August to receive a Julliard education. August is a child prodigy who excels beyond even the wildest expectations and earns the opportunity of a lifetime--a chance to perform in front of an enormous audience in New York's Central Park. The question is; can his performance possibly reach the audience August really craves? While elements of this film are completely unbelievable (take August's instant prowess on the guitar or his immediate and sophisticated grasp of musical notation and musical theory), the message of the universality of music and the notion that "the music is all around us, all you have to do is listen" is both compelling and powerful. --Tami Horiuchi
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 Musical Magic July 4, 2009
Timothy John Orr
This movie shows you how much music can really move a person. August Rush follows a family that is brought together through music. August wishes to find his long lost parents and believes he can find them through the music that he hears in everyday objects and sounds. Years before his parents had also been brought together when both "heard the music" as they were playing in two seperate concerts. As this movie progresses music continues to play as an important role as August learns how to play a guitar simply by looking at another kid playing, finds out how to write music, and finally writes his own rhapsody. As August is improving his ability and sharing his talent, his parents are each on a journey to discover they're love of music again. The end of this movie is an emotional thrill and the final song will break your heart everytime. I thoroughly enjoyed this musical movie that shows that music can bring those we miss together.
 Very enjoyable, though far-fetched June 29, 2009
Adrienne B. (United States)
I feel this movie really tears at one's emotions in a good, happy way. It's about an orphan boy who believes that one day he'll find his parents through the use of his music. It has a really great story, even though a lot of it is hard to believe. Like the fact that the boy never had any musical training, but can pick up a guitar for the first time and automatically just start playing it like a pro, or how he had never seen a note written down before in his life yet somehow is able to write an entire musical score in a half a days time.
I do want to say that the music in it is amazing. Very catchy, yet emotionally powerful.
All the same, this is a great family movie which is enjoyable and fun to watch as long as you dont pay too much attention to how impossible some of what happens really is. But hey, what else is fiction for other then to suspend reality a little bit?
Want to watch a great movie? This is it. June 23, 2009
Plain Jane, (Smalltown, United States)
I fell in love with this movie when I first saw it, and decided that I just had to have it in my collection of movies. Freddie Highmore is adorable as August Rush, and does a good job showing his struggle to find his parents. This is a great family film, with a wonderful cast.
A Movie for the Imagination June 18, 2009
jessjess
It disappoints me when I see reviews for movies like this that are full of complaints about sensationalism, and incredulity.
There are some movies where a heavy hand of reality is vital to it's success. But does that mean ALL movies need complete fidelity to reality? What a sad world it would be without the fantastic realms of existence awakened in the imagination. Think of all the movies that would never have been!
Of course it would it not only be improbable, but preposterous for the story told in August Rush to happen in reality. Who cares? Is that the point of the movie? Not at all! The point is to rouse our child-like imagination and to unleash potential and motivate us to dream.
I love this movie. I get lost in the story every time--always anxious down to the last moment if they will find each other in the end.
Great Movie June 16, 2009
Falcon_01 (Huntsville, Al)
I normally only watch sci-fi and fantasy, but this was a good movie- it sort of is a fantasy (a fable as others have said), where music is the magic. It's about hopes, dreams, courage, and perseverance.
I don't like that the premise for the story revolves around a one-night stand, but if you can ignore that and focus on the good- they boy having to live his life trying to believe he wasn't just abandoned (when so many others were and resent his positive attitude)- you'll enjoy it.
Also, Robin Williams plays a good bad-guy. :-)
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