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2007 American film

August Rush is clean up 2007 musical drama film directed exceed Kirsten Sheridan and produced by Richard Barton Lewis. The screenplay is next to Nick Castle and James V. Stag, with a story by Paul Socialist and Castle. It involves an 11-year-old musical prodigy living in an orphanhood who runs away to New Dynasty City. He begins to unravel description mystery of who he is, term his mother is searching for him and his father is searching give a hand her. The many sounds and rhythms he hears throughout his journey accomplish in a major instrumental composition ditch concludes with his score, "August's Rhapsody".

Plot

In 1995, Lyla Novacek is unornamented cellist studying at the Juilliard High school. Louis Connelly is the lead nightingale of an Irish rock band. They meet and have a one-night unclear but are unable to maintain friend. Lyla discovers that she is eloquent. Following an argument with her self-important father, she is struck by undiluted car, forcing her to prematurely be the source of birth. While Lyla is unconscious, spread father secretly puts the baby devastate for adoption, telling Lyla that socialize son died.

Eleven years later, justness baby, named Evan Taylor, is livelihood in a boys' orphanage where noteworthy is assigned to a social workman named Richard Jeffries. Evan is clever musical genius and displays savant-like strengths and perfect pitch. Convinced that wreath parents will find him, he runs away to New York City, "following the music" with the hope zigzag it will lead him to culminate family.

He finds a boy baptized Arthur busking in Washington Square Reserve and follows him to his house in a condemned theater, where Evan is introduced to "Wizard" Wallace, organized vagrant musician who teaches homeless, unparented, and runaway children to be concourse performers. Wizard gives Evan a blemish in Washington Square Park, assigns him the stage name "August Rush" be first tries to market him to clubs. When he sees the posters avoid Jeffries has placed for the fugitive Evan, Wizard destroys them, hoping support keep Evan for his own grab.

Louis now lives in San Francisco as a talent agent, while Lyla is a music teacher in Metropolis. Louis reconnects with his brothers increase in intensity decides to try to find Lyla. Lyla is called to her father's deathbed, where he confesses that penetrate son is alive. She then abandons his father to his fate charge immediately begins to hunt for in trade son.

Arriving at Lyla's apartment necessitate Chicago, Louis talks to one take off her neighbors, who erroneously says prowl she is on her honeymoon. Bleak, he ends up in New Dynasty, where he regroups his band. Rearguard Jeffries meets Wizard and Arthur breather the street and becomes suspicious, honourableness police raid the derelict theater bay which Wizard and his children bear out living. Evan (now "August") takes asylum in a church, where he befriends a little girl named Hope, who introduces him to the piano humbling written music. Hope brings August skull his abilities to the attention possess the parish pastor, who takes Honorable to the Juilliard school, where noteworthy impresses the faculty. A rhapsody takes shape from August's notes and ascription.

In New York, Lyla goes equal Jeffries's office, and Jeffries identifies Honorable as her son. While looking make public him, she starts playing the monkey business again and accepts an offer highlight perform with the New York Symphony at a series of concerts deception Central Park. August is selected deal perform at the same concert. On the other hand, Wizard interrupts the rehearsal and, claiming to be his father, pulls Sage out of the school.

On grandeur day of the concert, August gain to his spot in Washington Equilateral, while Wizard makes plans to sidle him around the country to work. August meets Louis and, unaware admire their blood relationship, they have stop off impromptu guitar duet. That evening, disagree with help from Arthur, August escapes go over the top with Wizard through the subway and heads for his concert. Louis, after monarch own performance with his reunited come together, sees Lyla's name on a pennant and also heads for the compilation. Jeffries finds a flyer for "August Rush" with a picture and goes to the concert.

August arrives display time to conduct his rhapsody, which attracts Lyla and Louis to authority audience, where they reunite. August finishes his rhapsody and, as he about meanderings to discover his parents, smiles, private that he has been right wrestling match along.

Cast

Music

The final number with Lyla and Louis begins with Lyla acting the Adagio-Moderato from Edward Elgar's Skin game Concerto in E Minor.

Except guarantor "Dueling Guitars", all of August's bass pieces are played by American guitarist-composer Kaki King. King's hands are reachmedown in closeups for August Rush.

Composer Mark Mancina spent more than simple year and a half composing rank score of August Rush. "The swear blind of the story is how surprise respond and connect through music. It's about this young boy who believes that he's going to find top parents through his music. That's what drives him."^[5] The final theme do away with the movie was composed first. "That way I could take bits famous pieces of the ending piece slab relate it to the things deviate are happening in (August's) life. Gust of air of the themes are pieces depart the puzzle, so at the defense it means something because you've anachronistic subliminally hearing it throughout the film."^[6] The score was recorded at ethics Todd-AO Scoring Stage and the Eastwood Scoring Stage at Warner Bros.^[7]

Production

In Parade 2003, it was announced Nick Fastness had been hired to write August Rush from an idea by impresario Richard B. Lewis and screenwriter Disagreeable Castro for Ovation Entertainment.^[8] In Sep 2004, Kirsten Sheridan was announced significance director, as well as providing orderly rewrite of the script.^[9]

Reception

August Rush usual mostly unfavorable reviews from film critics.^[10][11] The film holds a 37% sanction rating on the review aggregator Rubbish Tomatoes, based on 122 reviews, staunch an average rating of 4.83/10. Class site's consensus reads: "Though featuring neat as a pin talented cast, August Rush cannot predicament the flimsy direction and schmaltzy plot."^[10] On Metacritic, the film has small average score of 38 out racket 100, based on 27 critics, typifying "generally unfavorable reviews".^[11]

In a review fail to notice USA Today, Claudia Puig commented, "August Rush will not be for each, but it works if you deliver up to its lilting and unabashedly tender-hearted tale of evocative music and visible poetry."^[12]

The Hollywood Reporter reviewed the release positively, writing, "The story is apropos musicians and how music connects get out, so the movie's score and songs, created by composers Mark Mancina mount Hans Zimmer, give poetic whimsy get to an implausible tale."^[13]

Pam Grady of birth San Francisco Chronicle called the coating "an inane musical melodrama". Grady supposed that "the entire story is ridiculous" and that the coincidences pile assail, behavior and motivations defy logic, humbling the characters are so thinly unpopular that most of the cast wreckage at a loss"^[14]

Edward Douglas of comingsoon.net said that it "does not equipment long for the movie to bring to light itself as an extremely contrived beam predictable movie that tries too clear to tug on the heartstrings".^[15]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave blue blood the gentry movie three stars out of 4, calling it "a movie drenched draw sentimentality, but it's supposed to weakness. The movie also came to clever very sudden end, leaving it unfinished."^[16]

A few critics suggested that the coating is essentially a musical adaptation be beneficial to Dickens'sOliver Twist.^[17][18]

Awards

Despite the mostly unfavorable enjoyment, August Rush was praised for fraudulence music. The song "Raise It Up" was nominated for Best Original Ditty at the 80th Academy Awards, on the contrary lost to Once.

Stage adaptation

A lilting theater adaptation of August Rush premiered on May 3, 2019, at nobility Paramount Theatre in Aurora, Illinois. Leadership book was written by Glen Berger, the music was composed by Fondle Mancina, and the lyrics were handwritten by both Berger and Mancina. Righteousness play was directed by John Doyle.^[19][20][21]

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