Product Details

• • Actors: Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Terrence Howard, Robin Williams
  • Directors: Kirsten Sheridan
  • Producers: Richard Barton Lewis, Robert Greenhut, Ralph Kamp, Louise Goodsill, Miky Lee
  • Format: Multiple Formats, AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
  • Dubbed: French, Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1

Editorial Reviews Music has long been considered a universal language with the power to bringpeople together, but can the simple act of playing music possibly unite achild with a mother and father who live in two different cities and don’t evenknow of the child’s existence? Having shared one extraordinary night,classical cellist Lyla Novacek (Keri Russell) and Irish singer and songwriterLouis Connelly (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) were a union meant to be that was tornapart by circumstances and a protective father (William Sadler). After elevenyears, both Lyla and Louis have given up performing only to find that they areunhappy and searching for a sense of fulfillment that will ultimately leadboth artists back to music and performing. Evan (Freddie Highmore) is an11-year old orphan who’s grown up hearing music in everything around him andis convinced that his real parents want him and will find him with the help ofmusic. Driven by his innate musical genius and a powerful compulsion toperform before the world, Evan runs away from the orphanage and is initiallytaken in by a street man known as Wizard (Robin Williams) who encourages hismusical talent and renames him August Rush and, later, by a local priest whoarranges for August to receive a Julliard education. August is a child prodigywho excels beyond even the wildest expectations and earns the opportunity of alifetime–a chance to perform in front of an enormous audience in New York’sCentral Park. The question is; can his performance possibly reach the audienceAugust really craves? While elements of this film are completely unbelievable(take August’s instant prowess on the guitar or his immediate andsophisticated grasp of musical notation and musical theory), the message ofthe universality of music and the notion that “the music is all around us, allyou have to do is listen” is both compelling and powerful. _–Tami Horiuchi_