Producers :
Gaby Jerou, Richard B. Lewis, Robert Greenhut, Louise Goodsill, Ralph Kamp
Writers :
Paul Castro, Nick Castle, Kirsten Sheridan, Paul Castro, Richard B. Lewis, Nick Castle, James V. Hart
Critic Reviews
Grade
USA Today - Claudia Puig : ...it works if you surrender to its lilting and unabashedly sentimental tale of evocative music and visual poetry. more...
B
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - William Arnold : ...this could be the year's most sharply defined love-it-or-hate-it movie. more...
B-
San Francisco Chronicle - Pam Grady : ...inane musical melodrama... more...
D
ReelViews - James Berardinelli : August Rush isn't just a bad movie - it's an aggressively bad movie. more...
D
New York Times - Stephen Holden : To describe August Rush as a piece of shameless hokum doesn't quite do justice to the potentially shock-inducing sugar content of this contemporary fairy tale. more...
D-
New York Post - Lou Lumenick : This is the sort of movie that requires you not only to suspend disbelief, but to check your sanity at the ticket counter. more...
D+
Los Angeles Times - Carina Chocano : ...hits the sweet and sentimental notes way too hard. more...
D+
Hollywood Reporter - Kirk Honeycutt : ...an often charming urban fantasy that teeters perilously on the brink of preciousness but never quite topples over. more...
B-
filmcritic.com - Anne Gilbert : Going in to August Rush, you've got to be more than willing to accept fairy tale magic... more...
B
Chicago Tribune - Matt Pais : Wide-eyed fantasy is implausible and corny, but lighten up and you'll like it. more...
B-
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert : I think more sensitive younger viewers, in particular, might really like it. more...
B
Boston Globe - Wesley Morris : If August Rush is a fairy tale, it's an excruciatingly, sometimes hilariously oblivious one. more...
D+
Total Reviews:
10
Average Rating:
10 Comments
Dina Lopez says @ Thursday - December 13,2007
This one may generate a few tears. No profanity,
no sex, no violence but a great story line of a
child prodigy reunited with his biological parents through music. A triumph of believing, persistence, and family.
August Rush was a nice film. The story was good and so was the acting. All the actors did a very good job. As the young child hears the music and tries to find his parents, you are cheering for him and hopes that he finds them.
The three main characters are all "beautiful" people who manage to convey the story with a minimum of dialog. Additional characters, including Terrence Howard as the social worker, Jamia Simone Nash as the young girl in the church choir, and Leon G. Thomas as the young boy who befriends the musical prodigy, contribute strong performances.
If you appreciate varieties of movies, you will appreciate this movie. It was spiritual, motivational, a drama, a romance, a thriller, a nail biting, tense causing, horribly amazing movie. Anyone will love this movie.
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