![]() ![]() Lyla is called to her father's deathbed, where he confesses that her son is alive, causing Lyla to abandon her dying father and immediately start looking for her son. Louis reconnects with his brothers and decides to try to find Lyla (dumping his girlfriend Jennifer (Becki Newton)). Louis now lives in San Francisco as a talent agent, while Lyla is a music teacher in Chicago. Seeing the posters that Jeffries has placed for the runaway Evan, Wizard destroys all the ones he finds, hoping to keep Evan for his own gain. He gives Evan the stage name "August Rush" and tries to market him to clubs. Evan tries playing Wizard's prize guitar, Roxanne (a Gibson J150ec), Evan is so good that Wizard gives him his old spot in Washington Square Park, along with the guitar, which was also Arthur's. The children earn money by performing on the streets and come back and give a percentage of the earnings to Wizard. He finds a boy named Arthur (Leon Thomas III) busking in Washington Square Park and follows Arthur to his home in a condemned theatre, where Evan is introduced to "Wizard" Wallace (Robin Williams), an arrogant and aggressive vagrant and musician who teaches homeless, orphaned, and runaway children to be street performers. He later loses Jeffries contact number when he drops it in a drain by accident. Evan tries to contact Jeffries (who had given Evan his number), but is not able to contact him. Convinced that his parents will find him, Evan runs away to New York City, "following the music" in the hope it will lead him to his family. Evan is a musical genius and displays savant-like abilities and perfect pitch, which often causes him to be bullied. Eleven years later, the baby is living in a boys' orphanage under the name Evan Taylor (Freddie Highmore), where he is assigned to a social worker named Richard Jeffries (Terrence Howard). While Lyla is unconscious, her father Thomas Novacek (William Sadler) secretly puts the baby boy up for adoption, telling Lyla that her son died. Following an argument with her overbearing father over her unborn baby, she is struck by a car, forcing her to give birth prematurely. They meet (Lyla is a shy type and gets away from a party by hiding away on the roof, where she meets Louis, who was just hanging out there) and have a one-night stand, but are unable to maintain contact, as Lyla's father stops her from pursuing the relationship. Louis Connelly (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is the lead singer of an Irish rock band (with Marshall Connelly (Alex O'Loughlin), Louis' older brother). We get it in the first few minutes of the movie, so hammering it home in semi-surreal sequences can be a bit obtrusive.In 1995, Lyla Novacek (Keri Russell) is a cellist studying at the Juilliard School and living under the strict rule of her father. I think it could have been handled a little better though, mostly by removing some of the sequences earlier in the film. One could almost infer that the more August learns about music, the less he hears it, although I don’t think that’s the point I think it just coincides with a need for the central story to become the primary focus. Oddly, as August actually starts to learn about music, these vignettes become less common. ![]() ![]() It’s slightly gimmicky, especially when you consider that acts like Stomp have been using everyday items for percussion sounds for years now. The movie breaks occasionally from narrative storytelling to reveal the music that comes from August’s world in slightly surreal editing. ![]() Meanwhile, fate is reuniting August’s biological parents, a concert cellist (Keri Russell) and a rock musician (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), who actually only got together for one night eleven years ago the night when August was conceived.Īs a film that theorizes about a unifying theme in music, August Rush has a bit of a surreal edge to it. He renames the kid “August Rush,” and tries to manage the kid’s career. Wizard sees the child’s gift for music, which he wants to use for his own personal gain. The kid is convinced that he is still connected to his parents through a mysterious tune that comes to him through just about anything that makes sound, so he sneaks away from the orphanage and into the big city, where he is “adopted” by Wizard (Robin Williams), the leader of a collection of street performing children. The odd title of the movie comes from the lead character: a young orphan who sneaks away from the orphanage to find his real parents. ![]()
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