August Rush [Blu-ray] Kirsten Sheridan Digital Life DVD

August Rush [Blu-ray]
starring: Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Terrence Howard, Robin Williams
directed by: Kirsten Sheridan

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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391178279
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Running Time: 113 minutes
Sales Rank: 3829
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 21, 2007

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Warner Brothers August Rush (Blu-ray)
There's music in the wind and sky. Can you hear it? And there's hope. Can you feel it? The boy called August Rush can. The music mysteriously draws him, penniless and alone, to New York City in a quest to find - somehow, someway - the parents separated from him years earlier. And along the way he may also find the musical genius hidden within him. Experience the magic of this rhapsodic epic of the heart starring Freddie Highmore (as August), Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Terrence Howard and Robin Williams. 'I believe in music the way some people believe in fairytales,' August says. Open your heart and listen. You'll believe, too.

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Music has long been considered a universal language with the power to bring people together, but can the simple act of playing music possibly unite a child with a mother and father who live in two different cities and don't even know of the child's existence? Having shared one extraordinary night, classical cellist Lyla Novacek (Keri Russell) and Irish singer and songwriter Louis Connelly (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) were a union meant to be that was torn apart by circumstances and a protective father (William Sadler). After eleven years, both Lyla and Louis have given up performing only to find that they are unhappy and searching for a sense of fulfillment that will ultimately lead both artists back to music and performing. Evan (Freddie Highmore) is an 11-year old orphan who's grown up hearing music in everything around him and is convinced that his real parents want him and will find him with the help of music. Driven by his innate musical genius and a powerful compulsion to perform before the world, Evan runs away from the orphanage and is initially taken in by a street man known as Wizard (Robin Williams) who encourages his musical talent and renames him August Rush and, later, by a local priest who arranges for August to receive a Julliard education. August is a child prodigy who excels beyond even the wildest expectations and earns the opportunity of a lifetime--a chance to perform in front of an enormous audience in New York's Central Park. The question is; can his performance possibly reach the audience August really craves? While elements of this film are completely unbelievable (take August's instant prowess on the guitar or his immediate and sophisticated grasp of musical notation and musical theory), the message of the universality of music and the notion that 'the music is all around us, all you have to do is listen' is both compelling and powerful. --Tami Horiuchi

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- one of the best movies of the year
This movie is a must see for people who believe in serendipity. The combination of circumstances is truly extraordinary and stresses your ability to believe them. But in the end it is really worth it. The combination of acting, singing and music is skillfully blended and carrys you along in an emotional cloud. It is bound to make you feel better at the end. A rare movie for all ages and persuasions.

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- You have to understand this GENRE
I won't rehash what all of the positive reviews have said. My five star rating speaks for itself.

As for the negative reviews about this movie, I can't help but make the observation that those individuals apparently don't understand or appreciate the genre of fantasy drama. There are a few somewhat implausible elements to the story, but they're done artistically enough that instead of detracting from the film, they enhance the emotion of it.

This is one of the best movies I've ever seen. It's in my top 10 for sure.

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- Same Note Sammy
I'd have enjoyed this movie more if... well, if it had been better! I was expecting a serious movie and was dealt a Dickensian, Hollywood fairy-tale where actors are merely props for the movie's symbolism: Keri Russell is sublime and disciplined classical music and Jonathan Rhys Meyers is hip and emotional Rock and Roll. A short-lived fling gives birth to Freddie Highmore, a super-gifted, musically inclined child who integrates both. Robin Williams plays an interesting character, the only complex one in the movie, who represents, to me, the stages of a career in music which in the end goes bad: Inspired and driven by love of the art initially which then turns materialistic and self-destructive.

These aspects could have, if they had been done correctly by writer/director Kirsten Sheridan, been interesting. What is beyond reproach are her sets and shots; she has the ability to create in her movies a ... Read More

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- Give me a break!!!
All I can say after seeing this highly recommended movie is...Puhleeze!!! Nearly every movie has some unrealistic "hollywood" aspects to it that stretch believability, but I have never seen anything that quite compares to August Rush in this way. Keri Russell is not very believable as a renowned concert cellist in the first place. On top of that, when she is playing a concert at the beginning and end of the film, she somehow knows that her true love, Jonathan Rhys-meyers, is playing a rock concert somewhere at the same time, and he knows that she is playing a concert at the same time, and their music is perfectly in sync, and somehow at the end of the film she knows that her son can hear her playing through a subway grate, and somehow the boy ends up running away from the evil Robin Williams just in time to make it to the concert to squeeze into a tux and direct the Juilliard orchestra playing his composition, and ... Read More

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