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 enlarge | Director: Kristen Sheridan
Actors: Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Terrence Howard, Robin Williams
Studio: Warner Bros.
Category: Movie
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Rating:  239 reviews
Sales Rank: 3473
Genre: Drama
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 114
ASIN: B0015RFCZ0
Theatrical Release Date: November 21, 2007
Release Date: September 29, 2008
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 great story and awesome music October 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is one of the best family films produced in recent years. Not only is the story compelling, the music is a masterful melding of classical and rock. Freddie Highmore gives a convincing performance of an "orphaned" kid in search for his parents through the music he hears. It's a fairy tale for all, especially adults!
Music lovers paradise October 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"August Rush" will grab your heart strings .This film is put together perfect,and the music is great.Robin Williams takes a role like never before,and should have been nominated for an Oscar.This is a film the entirer family can watch together.
 5 Stars for the Movie But 4 For this DVD October 24, 2008
The bad first...
The DVD has NO REAL extras... Added scenes are really it for additional content you may appreciate. (I don't count "Scene Selection" and "Language Options" as DVD Extras...) The DVD (not the movie) is why I gave this product 4 stars...
With that said... Here is the good.
There are 147 5 star ratings for this movie... and this movie is worth more IMHO. Here is my experience with this film.
Over a 2 week period:
My wife and I caught half of this on our Tivo.
Then we recorded it and watched two more times (on our Tivo).
Then we went and bought the DVD and watched it AGAIN, and each time we were reduced to blubbering tears of happiness... (Her not me... well I was a little choked up... but not as much as her.)
So the good in this movie demonstrates much of what is missing in our world today...
Faith, that things will be OK even when things look bleak.
Commitment, even when circumstances get in the way of being dedicated to an idea, dream, or a special person.
Serendipity, when many in our world feel like nothing good will happen to them. (Though they secretly hope it will.)
And Patience... something most of us just don't ever get to see on a daily basis...
This moving is truly deserving of the "Truly Moving Picture" award on the back of the DVD.
Filled with a stylized fantasy feel and satisfying wonderful this is worth your hard earned dollars.
Enjoy it...
The music is #1, Alex O' is the reason to see 3X October 21, 2008
Watched enough of the Tudors to know JRM is a smooth skinned tour de force. I had to watch my favorite Vampire be a big brother to this conflicted musician and had to hear the music.
Robin Williams gave me the creeps, like watching something morph into something old and threatening.
Buy it for the Music, enjoy Alex as Marshall, the "up for a fight" brother.
 Just too implausible October 19, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I found this movie highly unbelievable and rather insulting.
Within the first minute, I was thinking "Do eleven-year-olds actually talk like that?" I wish they had had a young person write Evan's narrative, because when you leave it in the hands of somebody who just wants to write a masterpiece, something gets lost in translation for me. The whole narrative seemed contrived.
About Evan being a prodigy, this is possible. Who knows what children see and hear and imagine? But it really bothered me that the main character immediately had the ability to flawlessly play instruments (e.g., guitar, piano, organ -- hell, whistle!) after little or no previous experience -- And that he magically had the ability to compose music!
Don't even get me started about magically being accepted to Juilliard. Being underage, with no parents, no guardian, no papers, no records, little musical experience -- Was he recommended by that church singer? Because I honestly have no idea how he got through all these obstacles without anybody thinking, "Gee, where DID this kid come from?"
If you're looking for a modern day fairytale, this one has definitely got the fairytale part covered. But there are so many better ones out there.
I'd rather have a fairytale that didn't scream: "It's okay, kids, people, everybody! Just follow the music, and in a few months, you'll be a prodigy! You'll know it all!" That didn't have to call itself a fairytale just because it couldn't hold enough water to be a proper story.
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