Synopsis
Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love, but are soon compelled to separate. Lyla is forced to give up her newborn but unknown to her, he grows up to become a musical genius.
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Cast
- Freddie HighmoreAugust Rush
- Keri RussellLyla Novacek
- Jonathan Rhys MeyersLouis Connelly
- Terrence HowardRichard Jeffries
- Robin WilliamsMaxwell "Wizard" Wallace
- William SadlerThomas Novacek
- Marian SeldesThe Dean
- Mykelti WilliamsonReverend James
- Leon G. Thomas IIIArthur
- Aaron StatonNick
Recommendations
- 75
USA Today
Will not be for everyone, but it works if you surrender to its lilting and unabashedly sentimental tale of evocative music and visual poetry. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
The story is about musicians and how music connects people, so the movie's score and songs, created by composers Mark Mancina and Hans Zimmer, give poetic whimsy to an implausible tale. - 67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
In the end, this could be the year's most sharply defined love-it-or-hate-it movie. - 60
Empire
Unapologetically preposterous, but it is a (very sweet) fairy tale and Highmore is captivating. - 60
Variety
Only auds immune to diabetic rushes should head for August Rush, though tolerant parents wanting wholesome entertainment for the kids will like it for its repetitive encouragement of creativity. - 60
Village Voice
Acclimate yourself to the frenzied vibe, and you'll feel the movie grow into itself as an urban fairy tale whose rapturous finale stakes a wishful claim on the redemptive power of love and art. - 50
Chicago Tribune
It’s an unabashed feel-good weeper, and those eager for that type of fare might as well settle for this one. But an equal number will be put off by the bad dialogue, transparent manipulation and saccharine overkill. - 40
Austin Chronicle
August Rush is a rather prosaic, oddly anxious, contemporary take on Dickens' Oliver Twist, with Williams – in nasty-man twee mode, a newish one for him – thrown in for bad measure.
