August Rush, Ingles

Okay we´re going to talk about August Rush, it is a drama film distributed by Warner bros. Pictures, directed by Kirsten Sheridan, written by Paul Castro, Nick Castle and James Hart and produced by Richard Barton Lewis. It was released on November 21, 2007. The main characters are Evan Taylor/ August Rush (Freddie Highmore), Lyla Novecek (Keri Russell), Louis Connelly(Jonathan Rhys Meyers),Maxwell “Wizard” Wallace( Robin Williams) and Counselor Richard Jeffries (Terrence Howard). The film was praised for its music. The song “Raise it up” was nominated for Best Original Song at the 80th Academy Awards, but lost.

Kirsten Sheridan is an Irish film director and screenwriter (born on July 14,1976),she directed famous films like August Rush(2007) and Disco Pigs (2001) Sheridan wasnominated for an Academy Award for co-writing the semi-autobiographical film In America with her fater, director Jim Sheridan, and her sister, Naomi Sheridan.
Now we´re going to make a summary of the film: In 1995, Lyla Novacek is a cellist in an orchestra under strict rule of her father. Parallel, Louis Connelly is the lead singer of "The Connelly Brothers". Lyla and Louis have a chance meetingduring a party after their respective concerts, and sleep together on a rooftop
After a rude awakening by Louis's bandmates, Lyla returns to her angered father in the morning and heads back to Chicago. Louis waits for Lyla as they had agreed, before eventually heading to the hotel Lyla was staying at, but Lyla doesn't acknowledge him. He turns to his music in the hopes she'll hear it and reconnectwith him, but becomes discouraged. Meanwhile, Lyla eventually realizes she is pregnant. After an argument with her father regarding the baby and her career as a cellist, Lyla runs out into the street and is struck by a car. Due to the accident trauma, she gives birth prematurely, and her father secretly puts her son up for adoption, forging her signature on the paperwork and allowing her to believethat the baby died as a result of the accident.
Eleven years later, a young boy Evan Taylor is living in a boys' orphanage outside New York City. Evan has the savant-like ability to hear music wherever he is. He is convinced that his parents will find him, which makes him the target of ridicule among the older kids at the orphanage. He meets Richard Jefferies, a social worker who gives Evan hiscard. Soon after, Evan runs away to New York City, "following the music" in the hope it will lead him to his family. In the process, he loses Jeffries' card, and wanders the city until finding Arthur a black little kid performing in Washington Square Park.
Louis now lives in San Francisco, having left his band on the same night as Lyla's accident. He has a chance meeting with one of his formerbandmates, and is invited to his birthday party. Louis is hesitant because he has not spoken to his brother Marshall since the band broke up, but he ultimately chooses to go. At the party, his brother is playing clips of the band performing. Louis confronts his brother and the words come to blows.
Lyla now lives in Chicago with a violinist roommate, and also gave up performing, but teaches music tochildren privately. Her friend and roommate encourages her to rejoin the New York Philharmonic, but Lyla is unconvinced. She is called to her father's deathbed and he admits to her that her child survived the accident, and is alive somewhere in New York. Upon hearing this, Lyla abandons her father to his fate and decides to return to New York.
Evan has since followed Arthur back to his home in acondemned theater, and has been taken in by Maxwell "Wizard" Wallace, a vagrant musician who teaches homeless children music and employs them as street performers. Evan tries playing Wizard's prize guitar "Roxanne", and while his initial approach is unconventional, he is so good that Wizard gives him his old spot in Washington Square Park, and Roxanne, both of which had until then been Arthur's....