August Rush
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Movie Reviews of August Rush
Movie Review: A song, a song, high above the trees
Summary: 5 Stars
"Listen. Can you hear it? The music. I can hear it everywhere. In the wind... in the air... in the light. It's all around us."
Short Attention Span Summary (SASS):
1. Boy musician (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) meets girl musician (Keri Russell) and they make beautiful music up on the roof before going their separate ways
2. Little orphan boy (Freddie Highmore) hears music in the wind and feels a connection to the parents he never knew
3. Desperately seeking parents, he winds up in New York City where he is taken in (in more ways than one) by a man named Wizard (Robin Williams, channeling Fagin)
4. He discovers a previously dormant musical talent, and impresses everyone
5. Fairytale ending will leave you asking or more
This movie is actually a modern day fairy tale, with an incredibly talented cast and a fantastic soundtrack. In fact, it is the music that makes it so special, and I can't recommend it highly enough. This is one to own and watch over and over again.
"All you have to do is open yourself up. All you have to do... is listen."
Amanda Richards, December 18, 2008
Movie Review: Oh so much more than the sum of its parts -- please see this film!
Summary: 5 Stars
So, why another glowing review. Everything has been said in the 60+ reviews already on this page and mine will likely never even be read!
Why? Because this movie engages the senses (an amazing score, lush cinematography) and touches the heart from start to finish in ways quite unexpected and rare for films these days. It's a stunner and it makes you want to stand up and clap with joy, (or go on record on Amazon with an enthusiastic review!!)
It is a beautiful fable, a metaphor for a deep and abiding truth that we are all interconnected and can 'listen' and 'hear' the harmonic of love that connects us. The talented young actor who carries this film (Freddie Highmore) expresses the purity, innocence, and sense of wonder that lies within each of us -- evoked so beautifully in this timeless fable of 'yearning for Home' and 'dreams come true.' And any viewer (of any age - even the most jaded and cynical, I promise you) can relate to this universal theme and (perhaps in spite of oneself) feel uplifted.
This simple little film is a beauty. It is more than the sum of its parts. See this film, please! You'll skip with a lighter step if you do.
Movie Review: I cried at the end
Summary: 5 Stars
I just saw this movie the other night, and the story moved me so much!
Lyla and Louis meet at a party. They share a night on top of the roof of the building, and later plan to meet again.Louis even takes a picture of Lyla. Sadly, Lyla's father has other ideas, and right in front of Louis, she's whisked away, while he frantically calls her name. What neither of them know is that that night resulted in a baby. Who by cruel ways, is separated from his parents.
Flash forward 11 years. Evan Taylor lives at a home for boys, and is constantly tormented because he hears music in everything, and has a firm, unshakable belief that his parents really wanted him. A social workek takes pity on him, and gives him his number should he ever need anything. One night, Evan slips away, setting off to find his parents.
Did i mention that Louis is looking for Lyla? He's kept that polariod of her all this time, and wants to find her. So he tries.
The whole movie is so touching and heart wrenching at times, you're just begging, "please let this boy find his parents."
The ending, just wow. Watch this, you will not be disappointed
Movie Review: An update to Show Boat with a Dickens twist
Summary: 5 Stars
Freddie Highmore is wonderful as August Rush. I can tell that the producers of this movie are huge fans of the movie Show Boat, particularly the 1936 version starring Irene Dunne. The 1936 version departs from the book and other versions of the movie and the play, but it is considered the classic version of Show Boat. I am a classic movie lover myself, and this movie is part of my video collection. The relationship between the couples in both movies share common elements. The naive, sheltered girl falls for the guy from the opposite side of the track. Both have a talent for the stage. She has an overbearing, overprotective parent. The couple separate. Years pass. The child follows in the parents' footsteps. The couple reunite in the audience on their child's big night on stage. The movies even end the same way in the final scene. The music in both is top notch. There are other similarities, but there are also differences. The big difference is that the child in Show Boat is always with the mother, but the child here is an orphan, and this movie centers around his efforts to find and reunite with his parents. I enjoyed this fresh update.Movie Review: Listen to the Music all around...
Summary: 5 Stars
If you have any love for music at all, you'll enjoy this movie. There's a language that goes along with music...it makes the sounds that the soul wants to speak but can't find words for. It sings of celebration, joy, hurt, anguish...and other depths of emotion that we can't even begin to explain. This movie does a wonderful job of expressing that.
As a musician, I actually ached inside watching it because I understood what August heard in the world. His musical pureness was exquisite. He didn't understand the capitalist edge he had that Wizard tried to exploit because of his gift. He didn't understand the importance and grandeur of his accomplishment at Juliard. He simply heard the music and knew in his heart that it would serve him good in mending the broken relationships of his life. That is the essence of music...touching the areas of life that otherwise would not be reached.
If you watch this movie with just your eyes, you may not be as delighted with it. But watch it with your heart and you won't be able to help but stand and cheer!