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Article: Dickens-like 'August Rush' appeals to viewers' emotions
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
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- November 30, 2007
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Here is a movie drenched in sentimentality, but it's supposed to be. I dislike sentimentality where it doesn't belong, but there's something brave about the way "August Rush" declares itself and goes all the way with coincidence, melodrama and skillful tear-jerking. I think more sensitive younger viewers, in particular, might really like it.
The story is a very free, modern adaptation of elements from "Oliver Twist." We meet Evan Taylor (Freddie Highmore), an 11-year-old who runs away from his orphanage rather than be placed with a foster family. He has been told that his parents are still alive and were musicians, and he ...