August Rush
August
rush is one of drama film that tell us about a boy named Evan Taylor who lives
in boys dormitory and bad senior that always bullying him. He do love music so
much. He believes that he has parent and her parent still search him until now.
But its like a joke for senior around him and laugh at with what evan
believe. One day there is one of
children service come to the dorm and start interview the occupant of the dorm
one by one. When evan in his turn and he asks the man named jeffries not to
sent him away from this dorm because he believes that his parents still alive.
His mother named Lyla Novacek was a
cellist is a huge orchestra who has strict rule with her dad. His daughter. And
his father named Louis Conelly was a vocalist in a Irish rock band of “The
Conelly Brothers”. They meet in one of rooftop of a building unconsiously. And they
slept together until morning come. Lyla very surprise because they had to go an
orchestra concert and afraid of her dad that will being angry with her. And
Louis made Lyla promise to meet in the Arch but it canceled because Lyla’s dad
is not allowed her to go anywhere. And after that they did’t meet each other
and continue their life.
A month later Lyla had pregnant and
her dad hate it and they fight until Lyla got car accident. Her dad lie at her
that her baby was dead and secretly her dad sent her baby up to the adoption.
She became very desperate and long depression and decided to quit to play cellist
in orchestra and she became teacher in one of school music in Chicago. Meanwhile
Louis decided to quit being vocalist in his band.
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 former bandmates, 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, and Louis's girlfriend named Jennifer and get angry because she
never know and Louis never tell him that he is a vocalist of rock band music
then she leave louis.
Lyla through the day with loneliness, No
boy, No children. Her friend and roommate encourages her to rejoin the New York
Philharmonic, but Lyla is unconvinced. One day 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 runaway goes to New York and
lost his card that given by jeffries in dorm before. And he become homeless
before he meet arthur who perform in Washington square park. Evan live with
athur now in a bulding that condemned theater before, and has been taken in by
Maxwell "Wizard" Wallace), a vagrant musician who teaches homeless
children music and employs them as street performers. He was the one playing
the guitar and harmonica during Louis and Lyla's night on the rooftop. 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, and Roxanne, both of which had until then been Arthur's. Wizard also gives
Evan the stage name "August Rush" and begins trying to market him to
clubs and event promoters. Seeing the posters that Jeffries has posted for the
runaway Evan, Wizard destroys all the ones he finds, hoping to keep Evan and
his gift for his own gain. Arthur comes to resent being replaced by August as
Wizard's favorite.
Louis decides to reconnect
with Lyla, and after learning her full name by search in internet and suddenly
without planning he flies out to Chicago to find her. He waits for several
hours at the door to her apartment. When he asks one of the occupants of her
apartment where Lyla is, the woman mixes up Lyla and her roommate, and says
she's on her honeymoon in New York. Louis, crushed, ends up in New York and
decides get his old band back together.
After a meeting on the
street between Jeffries, Wizard and Arthur, the derelict theatre Wizard and his
"children" are living in is raided by the police. Wizard distracts
them and allows August to escape, with a warning not to tell anyone his real
name. After evading the police, Evan takes refuge in an inner-city church where
Hope, a young girl at the church introduces him to the piano, and to written
notes. He picks up this skill so quickly that Hope, seeing her room covered in
August's handwritten music and hearing him play the church's pipe organ, gets
the attention of the parish pastor who enrolls August at the Juilliard School.
August's nonconformist approach to the curriculum nevertheless impresses the
Juilliard staff, and a rhapsody begins to take shape from his notes and
homework assignments.
Once in New York, Lyla
stand in front of the building and meets Jeffries' office for information and
try to ask the position of her son to customer service but the clerk don’t want
to service her because that is the time the office close and eventually meets
with Jeffries, who is able to identify Evan as her son. She decides to stay in
New York to search for him, renting a studio apartment in the city. She also
decides to take up the cello again, and accepts the offer she would been given
to perform with the Philharmonic at a series of concerts in Central Park.
August's gift is
considered astounding among all at Juilliard,
and he is selected to perform the rhapsody he's been composing at the same park
concert as Lyla, the youngest student ever selected for this honor. Wizard
intrudes during a rehearsal and, claiming to be his father and under threat of
revealing August's real name, pulls August out of the school, putting him back
in Washington Square playing Roxanne and planning to send him all over the
country.
In the day when
finally Loius will perform the first performance atfter he he quit his old band
and meanwhile Lyla will perform in symphony concert that same with August
Rhasody by Evan Taylor. In the other hand Evan still forbiden to perform and
attend his own concert in Washington
square. Unconsiously August meets Louis, who is wandering through the park with
his own guitar, and then they play together, neither of them knowing their
blood relationship to the other. August tells him of his dilemma about the
concert and Louis tells him not to give up on his music, and that if he had a
concert, he wouldn't miss it for the world. In the time when the concert is
held, In a subway station that night, August decides to leave Wizard and go to
his concert anyway, with some help from Arthur who also rebels against Wizard.
August flees through the subway tunnel and towards the park where the concert
is underway, following the sounds of Lyla's cello concerto performance. Wizard
is last seen playing his harmonica alone in the subway.
Louis is looking outside
when they are in car heading towards the airport when he notices Lyla's name on
a banner for the concert. He jumps out of the van and heads towards the park.
Meanwhile, Jeffries notices a misplaced faximile for August Rush, sent to
Jeffries' office after August had been removed from Juilliard, identifies
August as Evan, and heads for the concert as well. August arrives just in time
to conduct his rhapsody, with Hope on
stage singing and Arthur in the crowd watching August's performance. Lyla,
having finished her part of the concert, begins walking away from the park, but
is attracted back towards August's performance. Louis also arrives at the park
and stare at Lyla, reuniting with her at the front of the crowd. Jeffries
arrives backstage during the performance and looks on as well. August finishes
his rhapsody and, turning around, smiles at Lyla and Louis, realizing that they
are his parents.
