August Rush is a 2007 drama film directed by Kirsten Sheridan and written by Paul Castro, Nick Castle, and James V. Hart, and produced by Richard Barton Lewis.

Rating: 8/10 (4 October 2019)

It involves an 11-year-old prodigy orphan, Evan (Freddie Highmore), who breaks out of the orphanage to New York City, looking for his birth parents. Throughout the film, Evan falls into the clutches of a homeless man who asks others to call him the Wizard (Robin Williams) and who wants to profit from Evan's talent by naming him "August Rush". Little did he know that his mother, Lyla Novacek (Keri Russell), is looking for him too. At the same time, his father Louis (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is looking for her to meet once again.
In my opinion, August Rush is a great movie because not only is it about the magic of love, but also about the power of music, that is, art that is part of our everyday. On one hand, August Rush catches us from the very beginning with the start of a love story, love at first sight between a young guitarist and a young cellist who have the chance meeting above New York's Washington Square, but who are separated by circumstances and thus leaving their child orphaned. On the other hand, August Rush manages to represent the power of music that, during the whole movie, plays a very important role in helping the musicians meeting again.
That's why I love this movie and I recommend it, especially to all music lovers that exist in the world from whom I expect to feel the same that I felt. There is hope of reencounter that someone we loved very much again and this is thanks to the power of music. "The music is all around us, all you have to do is listen."