On arriving at Lyla's apartment in Chicago, Louis talks to one of her neighbors, who mistakenly tells Louis she is on her honeymoon. Lyla is called to her father's deathbed, where he confesses that her son is alive, causing Lyla to abandon her dying father and immediately start looking for her son. Louis reconnects with his brothers and decides to try to find Lyla. Louis now lives in San Francisco as a talent agent, while Lyla is a music teacher in Chicago. Seeing the posters that Jeffries has placed for the runaway Evan, Wizard destroys all the ones he finds, hoping to keep Evan for his own gain. He gives Evan the stage name 'August Rush' and tries to market him to clubs. Evan is so good that Wizard gives him his old spot in Washington Square Park, along with the guitar, which was also Arthur's. Evan tries playing Wizard's prize guitar, Roxanne (a Gibson J150ec). He finds a boy named Arthur busking in Washington Square Park and follows Arthur to his home in a condemned theatre, where Evan is introduced to “Wizard” Wallace, an arrogant and aggressive vagrant and musician who teaches homeless, orphaned, and runaway children to be street performers. Convinced that his parents will find him, Evan runs away to New York City, 'following the music' in the hope it will lead him to his family. Evan is a musical genius and displays savant-like abilities and perfect pitch, which often causes him to be bullied.

While Lyla is unconscious, her father secretly puts the baby boy up for adoption, telling Lyla that her son died.Įleven years later, the baby is living in a boys' orphanage under the name Evan Taylor, where he is assigned to a social worker named Richard Jeffries. Following an argument with her overbearing father over her unborn baby, she is struck by a car, forcing her to give birth prematurely. They meet and have a one-night stand, but are unable to maintain contact. Louis Connelly is the lead singer of an Irish rock band. In 1995, Lyla Novacek is a cellist studying at the Juilliard School and living under the strict rule of her father. The many different sounds and rhythms he hears throughout his journey culminate in a major instrumental composition, which concludes the film ('August's Rhapsody').

He begins to unravel the mystery of who he is, all while his mother is searching for him and his father is searching for her. It involves an 11-year-old musical prodigy living in an orphanage who runs away to New York City. Hart, with a story by Paul Castro and Castle. The screenplay is by Nick Castle and James V. Evan sees them and instinctively knows that his family is now complete.August Rush is a 2007 musical drama film directed by Kirsten Sheridan and produced by Richard Barton Lewis. As Evan is onstage, Louis and Lyla are in the audience, entranced with Evan's piece, they eye each other and are finally reunited. Louis finds out that Lyla's playing there, so he too goes to the concert. That night he escapes and runs to the park. But Wizard takes him out of Juilliard and forbids him to go. Evan coincidentally will also perform at the concert, conducting his masterpiece. She takes up the cello again and is set to perform in an outdoor concert at Central Park. Meanwhile, Lyla has met with Richard and learns that Evan is missing. When Wizard's place is raided, Evan seeks refuge in a church, there he meets a pastor who is impressed with his talent, and enrolls him in Juilliard where he excels. Consequently, Louis tries to get in touch with Lyla but fails, he goes back to New York and joins his band.

Meanwhile, Lyla's fathers reveals the truth to her on his deathbed, so Lyla moves to New York to find Evan. He is one of many kids controlled by Wizard, a guy who makes money off of street kids. Evan runs away to New York and meets a street performer who takes him back to his place. Present day, Evan finds a confidant in a social worker Richard and tells him that he will one day be reunited with his parents, wherever they are. She eventually moved to Chicago, and he moved to San Francisco, and didn't have the chance to meet again. Both Lyla and Louis do not know that they have a son. When Lyla had a car accident, his father told her that the baby died when he really gave it up for adoption. Lyla got pregnant but her father did not approve since it would ruin her career. His mom Lyla, a cellist, and dad Louis, a rocker, had a one night stand 11 years back. Evan is a music prodigy who lives in an orphanage and wants to look for his parents. A young musically-gifted boy goes to New York to look for his parents.

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