August Rush [videorecording]
2008
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Modern day fairytale drama that tells the story of a young musical prodigy seeking his birth parents. Lyla Novacek (Keri Russell) is a brilliant young cellist who has just finish performing a concert in New York City. She meets Louis Connelly (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), a charismatic Irish guitar player, at a party. It's a case of mutual love at first sight as they bond over their shared love of music. It's the most wonderful night in Lyla's life but she must rush back to the hotel where her father, Thomas (William Sadler), is waiting for her. Lyla has promised to meet Louis in Washington Square, but her father forces her to go to her next concert. The young lovers are cruelly separated and Lyla is now left with child. Tragically, Lyla is in a car accident and the unborn child is lost. Eleven years have passed when Lyla's father makes the death bed confession that he secretly gave her baby boy up for adoption. August Rush (Freddie Highmore) is the child who uses his magical, musical powers to try and track down the parents who unwittingly abandoned him...
Main title:
August Rush [videorecording] / producer, Richard Barton Lewis.
Author:
Sheridan, Kirsten, directorMancina, Mark, musicHighmore, Freddie, 1992-, actorRussell, Keri, 1976-, actorThomas III, Leon, actor
Imprint:
EiV, 2008.
Collation:
1 videodisc (100 min.)
Notes:
Region 2, 1 disc(s), Interactive menus, Ratio (1:2.35 CinemaScope), Languages (English).Made in 2007.Credits: music, Mark Mancina.DVDN.Credits: director, Kirsten Sheridan; writer, Nick Castle; writer, James V. Hart; writer, Paul Castro; music, Mark Mancina.Credits: director, Kirsten Sheridan; executive producer, Miky Lee; executive producer, Louise Goodsill; executive producer, Ralph Kamp; executive producer, Robert Greenhut; executive producer, Lionel Wigram; writer, Nick Castle; writer, James V. Hart; writer, Paul Castro; music, Mark Mancina.
Performers:
Cast: Cast: Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Leon Thomas III, Jania Simone Nash, Alex O'Loughlin, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Terrence Howard, Robin Williams, William Sadler, Marian Seldes, Leon G. Thomas, Mykelti Williamson, Aaron Staton.
Audience:
BBFC code: PG.
System details:
DVD.
Dewey class:
791.437791.437PG
Language:
English
BRN:
145504