.”All you have to do is listen,” says August Rush, the 11-year-old orphan who uses music to search for his long-lost parents. His music permeates the holiday friendly “August Rush,” without which the ...

More mush than rush, this saccharine fable stars Freddie Highmore (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) as an orphaned musical prodigy who’s convinced the parents he never knew are still alive. He heads ...

Description: 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 Wizard ...

Hitting all the bases as a clichéd child-prodigy film and as a clichéd orphan-in-search-of-parents film, August Rush is pandering to the point of offensive. This bogus fairytale centers on the title ...

Only auds immune to diabetic rushes should head for “August Rush,” though tolerant parents wanting wholesome entertainment for the kids will like it for its repetitive encouragement of creativity. A ...

“August Rush” is one emotionally manipulative picture, a movie about a child music prodigy abandoned by his parents who holds out hope against hope that he will reunite with them — and heads out on a ...