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August Rush (2007) 7.5
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7.5/10 from 82,694 users
Metascore: 38/100
Reviews: 364 user | 147 critic | 27 from Metacritic.com A drama with fairy tale elements, where an orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents. Director:Kirsten Sheridan |
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Plot Synopsis
Storyline
This is a story of a music prodigy. Lyla is a renowned and beautiful cellist and Louis is a guitar player and vocalist at a club. Lyla and Louis fall in love once they meet each other following the music. Since they have different lives, they have to separate without seeing each other again. However, Lyla has had their baby - Evan, a prodigy born to music. Lyla has an accident and bears the baby but Lyla's father gives the baby to an orphanage without telling her, for fear of affecting her career. After that, both Louis and Lyla give up their music careers. Eleven years later, poor little Evan believes that his parents are waiting for him and goes to New York to find them. In New York, his musical gift leads him to success but also gives him some trouble. A monger uses Evan to make money and prevents him from achieving success. He escapes and runs into a church and people there are surprised by his gift and send him to the best music school, Juilliard. There he receives an education ... Written by Dennis
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An incredible journey moving at the speed of soundMotion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated PG for some thematic elements, mild violence and language | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
21 November 2007 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
El triunfo de un sueño See more »Box Office
Budget:
$30,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$9,421,369 (USA) (22 November 2007)Gross:
$31,655,091 (USA) (22 February 2008)Company Credits
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Written by Impact Repertory Theatre
Produced by Jamal Joseph and Charles Ray Mack (as Charles Mack)
Performed by Jamia Simone Nash and Impact Repertory Theatre
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Evan's hurried and disorganized writing of sheet music closely parallels the working style of Gioachino Rossini, best known for "William Tell" and "The Thieving Magpie", who is known to have written pieces mere hours before they were to be performed. See more »Goofs
When August was playing the piano at the church for the first time, he played a note, then two more to the left, and got a higher tone when he should have gotten a lower one. He then plays two notes to the right of the original pitch, and gets lower tones. This is exactly reversed from what should have occurred. See more »Quotes
August Rush: [opening voice-over] 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. All you have to do is open yourself up. All you have to do... is listen.See more »
Soundtracks
Raise It UpWritten by Impact Repertory Theatre
Produced by Jamal Joseph and Charles Ray Mack (as Charles Mack)
Performed by Jamia Simone Nash and Impact Repertory Theatre
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I saw a sneak preview tonight, not knowing anything about this film. If you still have an inner child, and an imagination that has not been beaten out of you by the "practical and mature" world, then you will love this movie. I wish I had taken my daughter. The only people that I have seen complain about this movie are people that probably consider playing music "hard work and self-sacrifice". If you don't play the cello, you are not going to notice how bad she fakes it. During certain scenes, I found myself sitting way back in my recliner, with my eyes closed, soaking up the sounds that inspired this young man. Not since "Strictly Ballroom" have I been so moved by a film.