An infant secretly given away by Lyla';;s father has grown into an unusually gifted child who hears music all around him and can turn the rustling of wind through a wheat field into a beautiful symphony with himself at its center, the composer and conductor. This is a story of a music prodigy. Lyla is a renowned and beautiful cellist and Louis is a guitar player and vocalist at a club. Lyla and Louis fall in love once they meet each other following the music. Since they have different lives, they have to separate without seeing each other again.
15 October 1972, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
5 May 1969, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
12 August 1952, Uccle, Belgium
23 August 1928, New York City, New York, USA
30 November 1947, Bronx, New York, USA
7 January 1993
27 July 1977, Dublin, Ireland
11 March 1969, Chicago, Illinois, USA
9 November 1984, Seoul, South Korea
11 December 1937, Columbus, Ohio, USA
22 September 1979, Cork City, Ireland
13 November 1962
December 28, 2010
Essentially an extended music video, and with about as much narrative weight, August Rush is empty, flat, and pointless.
November 27, 2007
Even the final few moments, which should have us choking up, seemed hurried and shot from the wrong angles.
November 22, 2007
This inspirational drama gets three stars for oddity value alone.
May 05, 2010
A music box trying to pass itself off as an orchestra.
November 22, 2007
August Rush will not be for everyone, but it works if you surrender to its lilting and unabashedly sentimental tale of evocative music and visual poetry.
May 08, 2008
Someone in Hollywood must have it in for Thanksgiving. How else to explain the cruelly timed release of August Rush, a wretched confection that only the most determined will be able to count among their blessings?
May 01, 2008
While many films require a suspension of disbelief, August Rush asks viewers to terminate their disbelief without severance and have security escort it from the building.
September 08, 2008
"The only thing astounding about this movie is how bad it is."
July 27, 2009
A heartwarming fairy-tale that is undeniably sweet, even if it occasionally crosses over into sappiness.
April 17, 2008
Its almost desperate earnestness actually turns out to be its greatest appeal -- August Rush does believe in fairy tales, it does it does it does!
December 01, 2007
However predictable, a good ol' fashioned happy ending is always welcome. But bring a box of tissues: A good cry is to be expected as well.
November 21, 2007
Exuberantly bad and strenuously preposterous.
