August Rush (Blu-ray) PG
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 53 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 11, 2008
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Keri Russell, Robin Williams & Freddie Highmore | |
Performer: | Terrence Howard, William Sadler, Mykelti Williamson & Ronald Guttman | |
Directed by | Kirsten Sheridan | |
Screenwriting by | Nick Castle & James V. Hart | |
Composition by | Mark Mancina | |
Story by | Paul Castro & Nick Castle | |
Director of Photography: | John Mathieson |
Entertainment Reviews:
A music box trying to pass itself off as an orchestra.
Boxoffice Magazine
Even the final few moments, which should have us choking up, seemed hurried and shot from the wrong angles.
Ebert & Roeper
Rating: 3/10 --
"The only thing astounding about this movie is how bad it is."
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ReelzChannel.com
Rating: A- --
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.
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Rating: 2.5/4 --
A heartwarming fairy-tale that is undeniably sweet, even if it occasionally crosses over into sappiness.
Times-Picayune
Rating: 3/5 --
Yes, August Rush is cheesy, almost embarrassingly so, but it's also irrepressibly sweet.
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BBC.com
Rating: 4/10 --
Essentially an extended music video, and with about as much narrative weight, August Rush is empty, flat, and pointless.
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ComingSoon.net
Product Description:
AUGUST RUSH is part romance, part gentle fantasy, but this sweet drama is all heart. When young cellist Lyla (Keri Russell) and rock musician Louis (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) meet at a party in the mid 1990s, it's love at first sight, and they spend the night in each other's arms. But Lyla's father forces them apart, even though she later learns she's pregnant. Later, an accident lands Lyla in the hospital, and though her father tells her that her baby died, the child survives and is given up for adoption. AUGUST RUSH jumps to the present and begins to follow Evan (Freddie Highmore), an 11 year old who has grown up in a boys' home. As Evan embarks on a crusade to find his parents, he imagines he can communicate with them through his gift for music. His journey to New York City brings him into contact with Wizard (Robin Williams), a man eager to capitalize on the child prodigy's talent. Wizard gives Evan the name August Rush as he begins performing all over the city, but the boy's ultimate goal is to find the parents he has never met.
From FINDING NEVERLAND to CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, Highmore has displayed an almost prodigious talent himself. He's a gifted young actor, and this emotional story is the perfect venue for his acting. AUGUST RUSH isn't a film for the cynics, but even the hard-hearted in the audience will have difficulty not being touched by this sentimental film. As in Evan's life, music plays a central role in AUGUST RUSH, and it's tough not to let your heart soar along with the melodies. Though it could draw comparisons to OLIVER! and ANNIE, this is a unique and heartwarming film.
From FINDING NEVERLAND to CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, Highmore has displayed an almost prodigious talent himself. He's a gifted young actor, and this emotional story is the perfect venue for his acting. AUGUST RUSH isn't a film for the cynics, but even the hard-hearted in the audience will have difficulty not being touched by this sentimental film. As in Evan's life, music plays a central role in AUGUST RUSH, and it's tough not to let your heart soar along with the melodies. Though it could draw comparisons to OLIVER! and ANNIE, this is a unique and heartwarming film.