Evan/August (Freddie Highmore) turns out to be a child prodigy when he picks up the guitar in “August Rush, ” a sort of modern-day retelling of Dickens’ Oliver Twist.
Here is a movie drenched in sentimentality, but it's supposed to be. I dislike sentimentality where it doesn't belong, but there's something brave about the way August Rush declares itself and goes all the way with coincidence, melodrama and skillful tear-jerking. I think more sensitive younger viewers, in particular, might really like it.
The story is a very free modern adaptation of elements from Oliver Twist. We meet Evan Taylor (Freddie Highmore), an 11-year-old who runs away from his orphanage rather than be placed with a foster family. He has been told that his parents are still alive and were musicians, and he believes that through the power of music he can find them again. Do you begin to see what I mean about sentimentality?
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As it happens, his parents were musicians, and they met through their music. Lyla (Keri Russell) was a cellist and Louis (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) was an Irish rock singer, and in a flashback, we see them meeting in Greenwich Village, falling in love at first sight, and making love so very discreetly that they remain safely within the PG rating. They promise to meet again, but Lyla's stage-door father (William Sadler)forces her to leave town for career reasons, and they have no way to contact each other. Young lovers, learn from the movies and always remember: Exchange cell numbers! Inevitably, she is pregnant (otherwise they wouldn't be Evan's parents, now would they?), but her father tells her the baby died, and ships Evan to an orphanage. Nothing must interfere with Lyla's career.
Back to the present again. The runaway Evan sees some street musicians in Washington Square Park, picks up a guitar and, despite having had no training, turns out to be a naturally gifted musician. Another young musician (Leon G. Thomas III), who is not called the Artful Dodger but should be, hears Evan and takes him back to an abandoned theater, where he and other young lads live under the management of a character who is called the Wizard (Robin Williams), but could be called Fagin. He sends his little army out into the streets every day, not as pickpockets but as buskers. Only in a movie like August Rush could the endless practical and legal problems suggested by this arrangement be considered plausible.
The Wizard, who dresses like a drugstore cowboy, spots Evan's talent and introduces him to the world as August Rush. August believes, really believes, that music has the power to bring people together, and finds a sympathizer when he comes upon a church choir where the preacher turns out to have connections at Juilliard. So, yes, August is discovered as a child genius, and quickly earns the right to conduct his own symphony at an outdoor concert in Central Park, where he proves himself an expert conductor and (gasp!) his mother is the cellist and his father is nearby, both of them still under the spell of their long-lost love, and ...
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I'm telling you, the ghost of Dickens would be applauding. The movie, directed by Kirsten Sheridan and written by Nick Castle, James V. Hart and Paul Castro, pulls out all the stops, invents new ones and pulls them out too. But it has a light-footed, cheerful way about its contrivances, and Freddie Highmore (Finding Neverland) is so open and winning that he makes August seem completely sincere. One touch of craftiness would sink the whole enterprise.
Another quality about the movie is that it seems to sincerely love music as much as August does. If you're going to lay it on this thick, you can't compromise, and Sheridan doesn't. I don't have some imaginary barrier in my mind beyond which a movie dare not go. I'd rather August Rush went the whole way than just be lukewarm about it. Yes, some older viewers will groan, but I think up to a certain age, kids will buy it, and in imagining their response, I enjoyed my own.
Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.NEW YORK CITY–You don't see a lot of poppies in America. A day before Remembrance Day (Veteran's Day in the United States), there is just one in the crowded ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria. It's being worn by 15-year-old Freddie Highmore, who says he pinned it to his lapel five days earlier when he left his native England. Asked about it, he says, We wear it as a symbol of remembrance for the people who sacrificed their lives for us in the wars. It's important.
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It's another sign of the maturity of a teen actor known for his performances in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, A Good Year, and Finding Neverland. He plays the title character in his latest film, August Rush, which tells the story of an orphan who believes that his parents are searching for him and that if he plays his music, they will hear it.
However, his birth parents don't know he exists. His mother (Keri Russell) was told by her father that her baby died, but senses that something is missing from her life. Meanwhile, his father (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) still pines for the beautiful cello player with whom he had a memorable one-night stand. The film opens Wednesday (November 21) in Vancouver.
Rhys Meyers is a fan. He says Highmore's maturity went a long way toward helping the cast and crew tell the story. If Freddie doesn't work, then the movie doesn't work, Rhys Meyers explained. He is August Rush. We are just there to support his story. But we were fortunate because he just happens to be one of these kids who can sit in a room of adults and there is equality there. He is smart. There is a good reason why a great actor like Johnny Depp (who starred in Finding Neverland and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) takes to this kid so much. He saw something inside him that is different from other kids, but not better or worse. He has great empathy for people, and that is very attractive both as an actor and as a human being. I think that quality makes him very watchable.
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Highmore spent six months learning how to play the guitar for the role, which he completed 18 months ago. He also learned to talk with an American accent and to conduct an orchestra. He says that while none of it was easy, he was looking for a challenge and found it playing August.
The most important thing with the guitar was to get it to look right so that it always appeared that I was playing it, Highmore said. I learned all the songs I had to play so it wouldn't just look like I was faking it, and most of the time what you hear was the song I played. The harder thing was conducting. It was a normal piece of conducting, but longer than the guitar pieces. I wanted to make it look real. I didn't just want to wave my arms around. I wanted to do it properly because I felt people could tell if you didn't look as though you knew what you were doing.
Highmore's own gift, which has led to winning several child-acting awards, will not be on view much longer, he says. The actor has continually told reporters that he will not attempt to be an adult actor, preferring to find other ways to make a living when he gets older.
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Asked if his success at such a young age had led to him being called a freak like the character in August Rush, Highmore says that he has managed to keep life simple: My best friends from school have been the ones that I have known since before filming and I go to a normal school so I am not home schooled. I try to be [as] normal as I can.International shipment of items may be subject to customs processing and additional charges. International shipping - items may be subject to customs processing depending on the item's customs value. Sellers declare the item's customs value and must comply with customs declaration laws. As the buyer, you should be aware of possible: • Delays from customs inspection. • Import duties and taxes which buyers must pay. • Brokerage fees payable at the point of delivery. Your country's customs office can offer more details, or visit 's page on international trade.
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It's another sign of the maturity of a teen actor known for his performances in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, A Good Year, and Finding Neverland. He plays the title character in his latest film, August Rush, which tells the story of an orphan who believes that his parents are searching for him and that if he plays his music, they will hear it.
However, his birth parents don't know he exists. His mother (Keri Russell) was told by her father that her baby died, but senses that something is missing from her life. Meanwhile, his father (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) still pines for the beautiful cello player with whom he had a memorable one-night stand. The film opens Wednesday (November 21) in Vancouver.
Rhys Meyers is a fan. He says Highmore's maturity went a long way toward helping the cast and crew tell the story. If Freddie doesn't work, then the movie doesn't work, Rhys Meyers explained. He is August Rush. We are just there to support his story. But we were fortunate because he just happens to be one of these kids who can sit in a room of adults and there is equality there. He is smart. There is a good reason why a great actor like Johnny Depp (who starred in Finding Neverland and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) takes to this kid so much. He saw something inside him that is different from other kids, but not better or worse. He has great empathy for people, and that is very attractive both as an actor and as a human being. I think that quality makes him very watchable.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers Finds Himself In August Rush
Highmore spent six months learning how to play the guitar for the role, which he completed 18 months ago. He also learned to talk with an American accent and to conduct an orchestra. He says that while none of it was easy, he was looking for a challenge and found it playing August.
The most important thing with the guitar was to get it to look right so that it always appeared that I was playing it, Highmore said. I learned all the songs I had to play so it wouldn't just look like I was faking it, and most of the time what you hear was the song I played. The harder thing was conducting. It was a normal piece of conducting, but longer than the guitar pieces. I wanted to make it look real. I didn't just want to wave my arms around. I wanted to do it properly because I felt people could tell if you didn't look as though you knew what you were doing.
Highmore's own gift, which has led to winning several child-acting awards, will not be on view much longer, he says. The actor has continually told reporters that he will not attempt to be an adult actor, preferring to find other ways to make a living when he gets older.
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Asked if his success at such a young age had led to him being called a freak like the character in August Rush, Highmore says that he has managed to keep life simple: My best friends from school have been the ones that I have known since before filming and I go to a normal school so I am not home schooled. I try to be [as] normal as I can.International shipment of items may be subject to customs processing and additional charges. International shipping - items may be subject to customs processing depending on the item's customs value. Sellers declare the item's customs value and must comply with customs declaration laws. As the buyer, you should be aware of possible: • Delays from customs inspection. • Import duties and taxes which buyers must pay. • Brokerage fees payable at the point of delivery. Your country's customs office can offer more details, or visit 's page on international trade.
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