romantic fantasy directed
by : Kirsten Sheridan featuring
: Freddie Highmore - Keri Russell - Jonathan Rhys Meyers - Terrence
Howard - Robin Williams running
time : 1 hour 53 minutes
Estranged from his
parents by circumstance and nudged toward a foster family, a young boy
seeks out his long-lost folks and discovers prodigious musical talent in
this family-oriented drama from Disco Pigs director Kirsten Sheridan. In
the aftermath of a passionate night together above New York's Washington
Square, a charismatic Irish guitarist named Louis (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers)
and a reserved cellist named Lyla (Keri Russell) are forced apart by fate.
Despite the fact that they do not remain together, however, their fleeting
union created something amazing that neither could have ever anticipated
- a baby. Unfortunately, just after the child's birth, the mother is misinformed
that the infant has died. Cut to 11 years later, when the child, Evan,
is living in a Gotham-area boys' home and has developed an acute ability
to listen to the sounds of the outside world - hoping against all hope
that his biological mother and father will turn up to claim him, while
those in charge try to encourage him to open himself up to the possibility
of adoption. Unduly rejecting these bids, Evan runs away into the city.
Out on the streets, the child falls into the clutches of a manipulative,
untrustworthy street person named Wizard (Robin Williams), who renames
Evan "August Rush" and opens the boy up to the depth and breadth of his
own musical talent even as he smells the opportunity to grow rich off of
the foundling. Meanwhile, Evan/August's hope persists that he will be reunited
with his folks, and Louis and Lyla, unable to forget their initial night
of love, feel themselves being drawn back together by fate.
