August Rush

August Rush (2007)
Starring: Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Directed by: Kirsten Sheridan
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Grade: A+

I loved this movie when I saw it the first time in 2007 and I loved it just as much rewatching it now. Freddie is, as usual, great. Keri Russell is good and Jonathan is his normal hot self (and great actor, too, of course). Evan Taylor (Highmore) lives in an orphanage but knows that his parents are out there. After a meeting with a social worker named Richard Jeffries (Terrance Howard), he decides to go to the city to find them. There he meets up with Wizard Wallace (Robin Williams) who takes Evan "under his wing" and teaches him how to perform (Evan is a musical prodigy. He can pretty much pick up an instrument and play it perfectly the first time.) Evan's talent apparently came from his parents, Lyla (Russell) and Louis (Rhys Meyers), who had one night together but were separated by Lyla's father. Louis never knew Lyla was pregnant and Lyla was told by her father that the baby died after she was in a car accident, but he was really put up for adoption after her father faked her signature. After her father tells her the secret, she sets out to look for Evan, who she would have found if he would have stayed in the orphanage. After a chance meeting with Richard Jeffries, Lyla finds out what the baby's name is. But, what Lyla and Jeffries don't know is that Evan is now going as August Rush. Will they be separated forever? Or will fate find a way to put all three together? Watch for the adorable scene with Evan and his father, neither of whom know who the other is. So sweet.