August Rush
A film by Kirsten Sheridan
w/ Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Robin Williams
Rated NR
1hr 54min
Including an enlightening Q & A discussion with Screenwriter James V. Hart who joined us last
summer with Contact and Coppola’s Dracula.
“Listen… can you hear it? The music… I can hear it everywhere… it’s all around us. All you have to do is open yourself up. All you have to do is listen.”
With these words, an orphan played by Freddie Highmore (in perhaps his greatest performance) launches this musical journey of the heart – where music and intuition are inextricably bound together to create magic while reuniting a family. This extraordinary, contemporized fable uses music as a powerful metaphor for the intangible connections between people and the way music can guide and shape lives as a force for good. The performances by a stellar cast are exquisitely realized, including a remarkable turn by Robin Williams as a Dickensian character who nurtures Highmore’s orphan to discover his prodigious musical talent, empowering him to reunite with his long-lost parents, played by Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
This film is a “Hollywood Movie” in the best sense – where its deeper sentiments are actualized through music, performances, inspired writing and direction that drives this film to an uplifting, inspirational finale that sweeps us away in an emotional and cathartic validation of the power of a love story in the key of life.
Synopsis:
A musically gifted orphan, Evan (Freddie Highmore), runs away from his orphanage and searches New York City for his birth parents. On his journey, he's taken under the wing of the Wizard (Robin Williams), a homeless man who lives in an abandoned theater. After discovering his talent, the Wizard gives Evan the name "August Rush" and devises a plan to profit from his talent. Little does Evan know that his parents, Lyla (Keri Russell) and Louis (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), are searching for him too. Against all odds, the family is drawn together by the very thing that unites them – music.
The story of a charismatic young Irish guitarist and a sheltered young cellist who have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square, but are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York and cared for by a mysterious stranger, August uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth.
“Listen… can you hear it? The music… I can hear it everywhere… it’s all around us. All you have to do is open yourself up. All you have to do is listen.”
With these words, an orphan played by Freddie Highmore (in perhaps his greatest performance) launches this musical journey of the heart – where music and intuition are inextricably bound together to create magic while reuniting a family. This extraordinary, contemporized fable uses music as a powerful metaphor for the intangible connections between people and the way music can guide and shape lives as a force for good. The performances by a stellar cast are exquisitely realized, including a remarkable turn by Robin Williams as a Dickensian character who nurtures Highmore’s orphan to discover his prodigious musical talent, empowering him to reunite with his long-lost parents, played by Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
This film is a “Hollywood Movie” in the best sense – where its deeper sentiments are actualized through music, performances, inspired writing and direction that drives this film to an uplifting, inspirational finale that sweeps us away in an emotional and cathartic validation of the power of a love story in the key of life.
Synopsis:
A musically gifted orphan, Evan (Freddie Highmore), runs away from his orphanage and searches New York City for his birth parents. On his journey, he's taken under the wing of the Wizard (Robin Williams), a homeless man who lives in an abandoned theater. After discovering his talent, the Wizard gives Evan the name "August Rush" and devises a plan to profit from his talent. Little does Evan know that his parents, Lyla (Keri Russell) and Louis (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), are searching for him too. Against all odds, the family is drawn together by the very thing that unites them – music.
The story of a charismatic young Irish guitarist and a sheltered young cellist who have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square, but are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York and cared for by a mysterious stranger, August uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth.
w/ Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Robin Williams
Rated NR
1hr 54min
Including an enlightening Q & A discussion with Screenwriter James V. Hart who joined us last
summer with Contact and Coppola’s Dracula.
“Listen… can you hear it? The music… I can hear it everywhere… it’s all around us. All you have to do is open yourself up. All you have to do is listen.”
With these words, an orphan played by Freddie Highmore (in perhaps his greatest performance) launches this musical journey of the heart – where music and intuition are inextricably bound together to create magic while reuniting a family. This extraordinary, contemporized fable uses music as a powerful metaphor for the intangible connections between people and the way music can guide and shape lives as a force for good. The performances by a stellar cast are exquisitely realized, including a remarkable turn by Robin Williams as a Dickensian character who nurtures Highmore’s orphan to discover his prodigious musical talent, empowering him to reunite with his long-lost parents, played by Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
This film is a “Hollywood Movie” in the best sense – where its deeper sentiments are actualized through music, performances, inspired writing and direction that drives this film to an uplifting, inspirational finale that sweeps us away in an emotional and cathartic validation of the power of a love story in the key of life.
Synopsis:
A musically gifted orphan, Evan (Freddie Highmore), runs away from his orphanage and searches New York City for his birth parents. On his journey, he's taken under the wing of the Wizard (Robin Williams), a homeless man who lives in an abandoned theater. After discovering his talent, the Wizard gives Evan the name "August Rush" and devises a plan to profit from his talent. Little does Evan know that his parents, Lyla (Keri Russell) and Louis (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), are searching for him too. Against all odds, the family is drawn together by the very thing that unites them – music.
The story of a charismatic young Irish guitarist and a sheltered young cellist who have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square, but are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York and cared for by a mysterious stranger, August uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth.
“Listen… can you hear it? The music… I can hear it everywhere… it’s all around us. All you have to do is open yourself up. All you have to do is listen.”
With these words, an orphan played by Freddie Highmore (in perhaps his greatest performance) launches this musical journey of the heart – where music and intuition are inextricably bound together to create magic while reuniting a family. This extraordinary, contemporized fable uses music as a powerful metaphor for the intangible connections between people and the way music can guide and shape lives as a force for good. The performances by a stellar cast are exquisitely realized, including a remarkable turn by Robin Williams as a Dickensian character who nurtures Highmore’s orphan to discover his prodigious musical talent, empowering him to reunite with his long-lost parents, played by Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
This film is a “Hollywood Movie” in the best sense – where its deeper sentiments are actualized through music, performances, inspired writing and direction that drives this film to an uplifting, inspirational finale that sweeps us away in an emotional and cathartic validation of the power of a love story in the key of life.
Synopsis:
A musically gifted orphan, Evan (Freddie Highmore), runs away from his orphanage and searches New York City for his birth parents. On his journey, he's taken under the wing of the Wizard (Robin Williams), a homeless man who lives in an abandoned theater. After discovering his talent, the Wizard gives Evan the name "August Rush" and devises a plan to profit from his talent. Little does Evan know that his parents, Lyla (Keri Russell) and Louis (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), are searching for him too. Against all odds, the family is drawn together by the very thing that unites them – music.
The story of a charismatic young Irish guitarist and a sheltered young cellist who have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square, but are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York and cared for by a mysterious stranger, August uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth.
