Creepy Robin Williams ruins a great movie

Rating: 6/10 (21 September 2013)

Lyla Novacek (Keri Russell) is a renowned cellist performing in big concert halls. Louis Connelly (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is a guitar player and vocalist rocking it out. It's love at first sight. With their separate lives, they couldn't stay together. And when Lyla had their baby, Lyla's father gives away the baby to an orphanage while telling her the baby had died. Eleven years later, Evan Taylor (Freddie Highmore) is absolutely certain that he will find his parents and he'll bring the star crossed lovers back together.
So far so good, the movie moves along. It's a modern fairy tale that needs desperately some visual magic. Freddie Highmore is good child actor. However he needs to do more with his baby face. Jonathan Rhys Meyers is good as a man who's lost hope and the music. Keri Russell is an amazing actress who's capable of inner sadness and powerful outer pain.
And then Evan runs away from group home to NY. He hooks up with a creepy monger Wizard (Robin Williams) who uses Evan and the other kids to make money. It's like Pinocchio when he's forced to join the circus. It's an uncomfortable storyline. And Robin Williams' creepy performance really ruins the magic of this story. I mean it's one step short of child slavery.