August Rush to a Theater to See This Masterpiece

Rating: 9/10 (9 December 2007)

Bring along a box of Kleenex people because this wonderful plus film will rip the guts out of you. As of this date, 12/8/07, it's the best film I've seen in '07 and I'll go out on a limb by saying that 15 year old Freddie Highmore, who is 11.5 in the movie, will be nominated for the Best Actor Oscar.
This is one brilliant film filled with a roller-coaster of emotions,thrilling music and didacticism for all of us.Whoever thinks that music doesn't connect us is in for a surprise and it makes no difference whether those notes emanate from Juliard, a street corner singer, a subway artist, the New York Philharmonic or a church organ--they all make a difference in our lives and how magnificently "August Rush" displays it.
I'm sure all of you have seen films about child prodigies, be they musical or otherwise inclined. But you have never seen a film that so cleverly combines Freddie's God-given skills in juxtaposition with those of his parents played by Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Meyers resulting in a finale that breaks you into little pieces.
And for a family to be reunited under the circumstances shown in the film is absolutely mind-blowing.I can say this without reservation: the writer of this story, Richard Barton Lewis, is a flaming genius.You will never see a film with a powerfully emotional ending. A DO NOT MISS film!