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August Rush
Driving by his deep will of finding out his origins, August Rush, a young talented guitarist, who struggles against losing his parents after his birth, the thing that leads him to look for them, so he chooses his music, in order to find them, as he walks and performs in the streets for that purpose.
23 August 1928, New York City, New York, USA
22 September 1979, Cork City, Ireland
1 August 1993, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
5 May 1969, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
December 28, 2010
Essentially an extended music video, and with about as much narrative weight, August Rush is empty, flat, and pointless.September 08, 2008
"The only thing astounding about this movie is how bad it is."November 27, 2007
Even the final few moments, which should have us choking up, seemed hurried and shot from the wrong angles.May 01, 2008
While many films require a suspension of disbelief, August Rush asks viewers to terminate their disbelief without severance and have security escort it from the building.November 22, 2007
August Rush will not be for everyone, but it works if you surrender to its lilting and unabashedly sentimental tale of evocative music and visual poetry.December 01, 2007
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.November 21, 2007
Exuberantly bad and strenuously preposterous.November 22, 2007
This inspirational drama gets three stars for oddity value alone.July 27, 2009
A heartwarming fairy-tale that is undeniably sweet, even if it occasionally crosses over into sappiness.April 17, 2008
Its almost desperate earnestness actually turns out to be its greatest appeal -- August Rush does believe in fairy tales, it does it does it does!May 05, 2010
A music box trying to pass itself off as an orchestra.May 08, 2008
Someone in Hollywood must have it in for Thanksgiving. How else to explain the cruelly timed release of August Rush, a wretched confection that only the most determined will be able to count among their blessings?