Mozart and Oliver Twist

Rating: 8/10 (1 November 2008)

Many people understood the urban fairy tale that is "August Rush," and some may have noticed the relation between Mozart, child musical prodigy, and Oliver Twist, stolen by Fagin (as played here by Robin Williams,) but I don't think that anyone else here has noticed all connections or the third connection--the theft of brilliant musicians by the owners of music studios and those who have paid virtually nothing to great musicians for the rights to their music.
What a lovely score with 3 marvelous actors who look like a family.
Then there is Fagin, who stole children and had them steal money and pick pockets in lower-class England. Obviously, Mozart was not related to that aspect of the story, because the child prodigy who died too young was an amazing musician, but lived among the upper classes and was a wild child. Still, to miss two major connections--Oliver Twist and Mozart--is to miss very most important aspects of the movie.