Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Freddie Highmore | ... | August Rush | |
Keri Russell | ... | Lyla Novacek | |
Jonathan Rhys Meyers | ... | Louis Connelly | |
Terrence Howard | ... | Richard Jeffries | |
Robin Williams | ... | Maxwell 'Wizard' Wallace | |
William Sadler | ... | Thomas Novacek | |
Marian Seldes | ... | The Dean | |
Mykelti Williamson | ... | Reverend James | |
Leon Thomas III | ... | Arthur | |
Aaron Staton | ... | Nick | |
Alex O'Loughlin | ... | Marshall | |
Jamia Simone Nash | ... | Hope | |
Ronald Guttman | ... | Professor | |
Bonnie McKee | ... | Lizzy | |
Michael Drayer | ... | Mannix |
Twelve years ago, on a moonlit rooftop above Washington Square, Lyla Novacek (Keri Russell), a sheltered young cellist, and Louis Connelly (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), a charismatic Irish singer-songwriter, were drawn together by a street musician's rendition of ''Moondance'' and fell in love. After the most romantic night of her life, Lyla promised to meet Louis again but, despite her protests, her father rushed her to her next concert--leaving Louis to believe that she didn't care. Disheartened, he found it impossible to continue playing and eventually abandoned his music while Lyla, her own hopes for love lost, was led to believe months later that she had also lost their unborn child in a car accident. Their orphaned son (Freddie Highmore) uses his musical talent as a clue to find his birth parents.
This movie "August Rush" really touched my soul. I was an orphan and identified with this child's yearning and searching for his parents. Near the end of the movie, I started to cry like a baby. "August Rush" touched something tender buried deep inside my soul seventy-six years ago.
My father was killed in a car accident three days before I would have celebrated my third birthday. My father was also Irish and looked a lot like August Rush's father. It was during the Great Depression and my mother gave me up to the county's foster care agency.
I am now seventy-nine years of age. How I yearned down through the years for my parents, especially my Irish father. My mother was French. I met her many years later in New York City when I was in my early twenties. She was cold and rejecting towards me. I could not understand why. I was abandoned a second time by one of my parents.
The movie "August Rush" was healing to my soul wounded since early childhood;and again, in my early twenties. I knew where he was coming from as he longed for his parents. Instead of music, I used my talent of writing to deal with the lost of my parents.
"August Rush" made me fantasize during the movie that my yearning and searching for my parents were like this remarkable child.