Patch Adams (film)
1998
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Evan/August (Freddie Highmore) turns out to be a child prodigy when he picks up the guitar in August Rush, a sort of modern-day retelling of Dickens Oliver Twist. Here is a movie drenched in sentimentality, but it's supposed to be.
August Rush. A musically gifted orphan, Evan (Freddie Highmore), runs away from his orphanage and searches New York City for his birth parents. On his journey, he's taken under the wing of the...
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- Kids & Family, Drama, Adventure, Musical, Fantasy
- PG
August Rush Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com. August Rush benefits greatly from a delightful cast and John Mathieson's...
According to the review site RottenTomatoes, 'August Rush' has an 82% rating from audiences, while critics only gave it 37%. Judging by the box office takings, I fully agree with the audience ratings. 'August Rush' earned $65.3 million on a $25 million budget.
August Rush received mixed reviews from film critics. The film holds a 37% approval rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on 123 reviews, with an average rating of 4.83/10. The site's consensus reads: "Though featuring a talented cast, August Rush cannot overcome the flimsy direction and schmaltzy plot."
Nov 21, 2007 · Nov. 21, 2007. 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 about a homeless,...
Nov 21, 2007 · August Rush: Directed by Kirsten Sheridan. With Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Terrence Howard. A musically gifted orphan, Evan, runs away from his orphanage and searches New York City for his birth parents.
Nov 7, 2007 · Movie Reviews. August Rush. Magical realism meets a modern-day Oliver Twist in this often charming urban fantasy that teeters perilously on the brink of preciousness but never quite topples over....
Nov 21, 2007 · August Rush is a rather prosaic, oddly anxious, contemporary take on Dickens' Oliver Twist, with Williams – in nasty-man twee mode, a newish one for him – thrown in for bad measure.
Nov 21, 2007 · This musical fable proves surprisingly engaging. When defending his 2000 romantic comedy Keeping the Faith, Edward Norton suggested that the only way to achieve true hipness in our age of irony ...
