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''August Rush'' is a 2007 [[Academy Award]] nominated drama film directed by Kirsten Sheridan and written by Paul Castro, Nick Castle, and James V. Hart, and produced by Richard Barton Lewis. It has been called an up-to-date reworking of the ''[[Oliver Twist]]'' story by [[
A boy named Evan Taylor ([[Freddie Highmore]]) lives in an orphanage but believes that his parents are alive. He believes that the music that he hears all around him (which others interpret as background noise) is his parents communicating with him. He meets a counselor, Richard Jeffries (Terrence Howard), of the New York Child Services Department. Evan tells Jeffries that he does not want to be adopted because he believes his parents are still alive and will come to collect him eventually.
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* [[Lamarck Was Right]]: The title character is a musical prodigy whose parents were also talented musicians, although even Lamarck would probably say that the degree to which this movie takes it to is unrealistic.
* [[Meddling Parents]]: Lyla's father {{spoiler|forging adoption papers}} in order to keep Lyla on the path to success.
* [[Missed Him
* [[Race For Your Love]]: Louis does this twice. He's far more successful the second time around.
* [[Serendipitous Symphony]]: A ''lot''.
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