about this movie August Rush is a movie about a boy named Evan Taylor (Freddie Highmore) who lives in an orphanage, all the while believing that his parents are alive. He believes the music that he hears all around him is his parents communicating with him. Evan meets a counselor, Richard Jeffries (Terrence Howard), of the New York Child Services Department. Evan tells him he does not want to be adopted because he believes his parents are still alive.
Through a series of flashbacks, we learn that his parents are a famous concert cellist named Lyla Novacek (Keri Russell), and Louis Connelly (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), an Irish guitarist and lead singer from a rock band. While Evan has believed his parents have wanted him all along, his mother only lately comes to find out that her son is alive and sets out to find him. His father has never forgotten Lyla and doesn't know about Evan.Evan comes to play music for money on the streets, taken in by "Wizard" (Robin Williams), who gives him the name "August Rush." Eventually, Evan ends up enrolled at the Juilliard School. Plot conflict occurs when Wizard shows up to take him back to his life of playing on the streets.
Plot resolution occurs in Washington Square Park, where Juilliard puts on a concert, which includes a performance by Lyla Novacek and a symphony by August Rush. His father races to the park when he sees their names on a sign advertising the concert. All three characters are seemingly, finally, drawn together at the end by the mysterious musical connections that Evan has believed in all
Cast
* Freddie Highmore - Evan Taylor / August Rush
* Keri Russell - Lyla Novacek
* Jonathan Rhys Meyers - Louis Connelly
* Robin Williams - Maxwell "Wizard" Wallace
* Terrence Howard - Counselor Richard Jeffries
* William Sadler - Thomas Novacek
* Jamia Simone Nash - Hope
* Kaki King - Evan Taylor's hands (for all the guitar shots)
Through a series of flashbacks, we learn that his parents are a famous concert cellist named Lyla Novacek (Keri Russell), and Louis Connelly (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), an Irish guitarist and lead singer from a rock band. While Evan has believed his parents have wanted him all along, his mother only lately comes to find out that her son is alive and sets out to find him. His father has never forgotten Lyla and doesn't know about Evan.Evan comes to play music for money on the streets, taken in by "Wizard" (Robin Williams), who gives him the name "August Rush." Eventually, Evan ends up enrolled at the Juilliard School. Plot conflict occurs when Wizard shows up to take him back to his life of playing on the streets.
Plot resolution occurs in Washington Square Park, where Juilliard puts on a concert, which includes a performance by Lyla Novacek and a symphony by August Rush. His father races to the park when he sees their names on a sign advertising the concert. All three characters are seemingly, finally, drawn together at the end by the mysterious musical connections that Evan has believed in all
Cast
* Freddie Highmore - Evan Taylor / August Rush
* Keri Russell - Lyla Novacek
* Jonathan Rhys Meyers - Louis Connelly
* Robin Williams - Maxwell "Wizard" Wallace
* Terrence Howard - Counselor Richard Jeffries
* William Sadler - Thomas Novacek
* Jamia Simone Nash - Hope
* Kaki King - Evan Taylor's hands (for all the guitar shots)