The lesson of such triteness, though, is possibly dangerous. Eventually, his gift for music leads him to bigger stages and the chance for a family reunion. Rush soon falls in with Wizard and proves to be a music prodigy, beginning with playing guitar in a strange banging fashion that (impossibly) produces refined sounds. Dressed like Bono and working as what amounts to a pimp for child street musicians, Williams' wacky and creepy character is his biggest misstep since putting on a clown nose for "Patch Adams." Illogical circumstances and an absurdly overbearing father lead her to think the baby was lost during birth, so just over a decade later, she and her past lover are living lonely, separate lives.Ģ Really, all you really need to know about "August Rush" is that Robin Williams plays a street musician named Wizard. It leads to a single night of romance for these two: one a classical cellist, the other an Irish rocker (you can guess who's who).įate keeps the couple from meeting again, though Russell's character ends up pregnant. His mother (Keri Russell) and father (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) met on one fateful evening 12 years earlier when they were both drawn to a lone street musician playing Van Morrison's "Moondance" at the arch in New York's Washington Square Park. Meanwhile, interspersed flashbacks fill in his parents' story. He sneaks from his orphanage, where social worker Richard Jeffries (Terrence Howard) is hoping to place him with a family, to New York City, where he soon picks up the name August Rush. Wide-eyed and impossibly innocent, this bite-sized Mozart embarks on a journey to find his parents with messianic certainty. "Enchanted" Is Fairy Tale Fun > Terror In "The Mist" Bob Dylan's Many Faces "Margot" Has A Mean Streak "August Rush" Hits A Low Note Without any tangible evidence, our protagonist senses his parents are still alive and that he just needs to make music loud enough so they can hear him (sort of like the ethos behind a Coldplay album). "August Rush" thus proceeds in fairy-tale fashion, though it's more unrealistic than surrealistic.
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