You Will Love This One!

Rating: 10/10 (29 November 2007)

There is a bright future for the main star of this movie, a young man with enormous potential as an actor, because of his ability to embody warmth and pure love. His face conveys innocence, deep feelings, connects with whoever the audience might be in rare and intense ways.
Freddie Highmore is a very special child, one human being with the ability to hear the beauty and the music that connects us all of us. He just hears sounds, and the symphony created by the beings and objects that surround him. There is so much bliss on his face that we can't help but liking him. His life is far from perfect because his talents attract harassment from those who can't understand his world. In addition to that, he is a ward of the state and misses the parents he has never met.
One day, he decides to find them, and we join him in his odyssey, a wondrous journey where he meets other children in the care of the Wizard, a mysterious man who might even be another link to August's own conception. As we follow, the boy on his quest, we are treated to the back story of his parents, and their own ordeals. Both are at first unaware this special young man exists, and though we can see the ending a mile away, it is still exciting to see what obstacles lie along the way to happiness.
The film is tremendously enjoyable because of the terrific music that is part of the film's score, and with the spark in the eyes of the three main performers, we truly understand and believe that some people are just able to capture the joy in the musical arts, and it is the beauty of this film that somehow we are able to partake of that very amazing feeling.
You will be moved to tears more than once, and that climatic scene tops almost anything done in the last few years. It is a film that hints at the criminal demise of films like these, films that embrace what is positive in humanity and in this world, films that are able to portray a variety of emotions, ranging from sweet innocence, to the very special act of love between two young people, without getting graphic, vulgar, or too creative.
Go see it!