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  Blu-ray Review: August Rush | High-Def Digest
If the film's story sounds absolutely insufferable, it is. 'August Rush' is movie that never met a contrivance it didn't like, and writer-director Kristen Sheridan trots out each and every one 'em as if she was Christopher Columbus discovering America.
What is most cloying and precious about 'August Rush' is it's absolute refusal to even give us a knowing wink about its own obvious manipulation of our emotions, and it's this kind of shameless pandering that I just find condescending.
Given 'August Rush's poor box office showing, it's little surprise that Warner has done next to nothing to celebrate the film's video release -- this supplement package is about as paltry as they get.
bluray.highdefdigest.com /1344/augustrush.html   (1326 words)

  
  Richard Rush Summary
Rush's main duty was to prepare advisory opinions for the president and Congress.
Rush quickly abandoned his legal duties, resigned as attorney general, and moved to London to serve as U.S. minister to England.
In 1847, Richard Rush was appointed as Minister to France by President James K. Polk, a position he held until 1851, when he returned to the land of his birth, to retire in Philadelphia.
www.bookrags.com /Richard_Rush   (1193 words)

  
  Richard Rush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard Rush (August 29, 1780–July 30, 1859) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He was the second son (and third child) of Benjamin Rush, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and Julia (Stockton) Rush.
In 1847, Richard Rush was appointed as Minister to France by President James K. Polk, a position he held until 1851, when he returned to the land of his birth, to retire in Philadelphia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Rush   (703 words)

  
 August Rush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
August Rush is a 2006 drama/musical directed by Kirsten Sheridan and written by Nick Castle, Jim Hart, Kirsten Sheridan and Paul Castro.
August Rush tells the story of a charismatic young Irish guitarist (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and a sheltered young cellist (Keri Russell) who have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square, but are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance.
Now performing on the streets of New York and cared for by a mysterious stranger (Robin Williams), August (Freddie Highmore) uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/August_Rush   (194 words)

  
 Review: August Rush
August Rush is constructed on a foundation of interconnected failures, the biggest of which comes at the very end.
August Rush would like us to believe that some mystical Force (as the characters describe it, it sounds a lot like the one in Star Wars) binds everyone together.
Had the movie focused more on August's peculiar kind of brilliant madness and less on the dreary soap opera of his possible reunion with his mother and father, August Rush might have offered something of value.
www.reelviews.net /movies/a/august_rush.html   (909 words)

  
 Nevada County Today's Feature: Mission: Dispel the rumors - TheUnion.com
Rush hasn't figured his finances for the trip to the penny but so far the price tag is up to $7,000; $3,700 for the bush pilot trip alone.
Rush plans on traveling up the Alkan highway in his pickup trip to Anchorage, a distance of about 3,200 miles.
Rush also uses color film, which can be used to make big enlargements without losing detail.
www.theunion.com /article/20070111/TODAYSFEATURE/101110136   (916 words)

  
 August Rush
August Rush's driving force is the title character's unwavering belief that his parents do want him.
The fact that August is ultimately encouraged to develop his gift, rather than stifling it, might prompt children in the audience to do the same.
Mean tactics employed by his persecutors include waking him up in the middle of the night, pinning him to the wall and pounding their fists near his head to scare him, teasing him about his desire to find his parents, and making his friend call him a "freak" to his face.
www.pluggedinonline.com /movies/movies/a0003510.cfm   (1325 words)

  
 wcco.com - 'August Rush'
"August Rush" begins with a boy (Freddie Highmore) standing in an open field where the surrounding sounds — the wind, the trees, the grass — swirl like a symphony in his head.
Rush soon falls in with Wizard and proves himself a music prodigy, beginning with playing guitar in a strange banging fashion that (impossibly) produces refined sounds.
If any young parentless child were to take "August Rush" seriously, he or she would almost certainly wind up deluded by the most unlikely of dreams — and making a terrible racket, besides.
wcco.com /moviereviews/August.Rush.Movie.2.592190.html   (664 words)

  
 Beta Sigma Epsilon | Alpha Chapter | University of Arizona | Rush and Recuitment Page
Rush is the process by which men learn about a fraternity.
It is a time for all college men to consider becoming a Greek, which is a big decision that will affect the rest of their lives.
Panhellenic and IFC sponsor a formal rush each fall semester, and IFC also coordinates a formal rush in the spring semester.
clubs.asua.arizona.edu /~bse/rush.htm   (424 words)

  
 The Observer Archive - Fall Greek rush begins - August 25, 2000
Rush is a two week period that is held semiannually both in the spring and the fall, in which different chapters hope to recruit new members.
Unaffiliated men and women are encouraged to attend events that promise fun, good food and a preview of brotherhood, sisterhood, and Greek life in general.
After this rush period, fraternities may rush and extend bids as they wish throughout the semester.
www.cwru.edu /orgs/observer/archive/00-08-25/stories/N02.html   (372 words)

  
 The New Gold Rush - July/August 2000 - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club
In the first 20 years of the Gold Rush, the indigenous population of California declined by 80 percent.
In the early years of the Gold Rush, a miner panning in a stream could work about a cubic yard of earth a day.
If the Gold Rush was a war on the earth, the heavy artillery arrived when hydraulic mining was invented in 1853.
www.sierraclub.org /sierra/200007/goldrush2.asp   (837 words)

  
 Westminster College - recruitment - Men's Rush
The last day of informal rush is Wednesday, August, 24.........and the details of that event will be available when you are on campus.
The last three days of rush (August 25-27) are formal and you will be assigned to one of the six groups led by a member of the Interfraternity Council.
Starting on Thursday night you will wear dress clothes and attend three "Rush Parties" which are non-alcoholic opportunities for you to learn about each group (you'll visit the remaining three chapters on Friday evening) and meet some of the members of those chapters.
www.westminster-mo.edu /students/greeklife/recruitment/rush.html   (468 words)

  
 Movie Spoiler for the film - AUGUST RUSH
Hope goes to the church from school and sees all the music that August had written that day and immediately heads to the minister to tell him that she found a prodigy and he has been sleeping underneath her bed.
August mentions about his entry in the Central Park concert and Louis says that if he had a concert like that he wouldn’t miss it for the world.
August decides that the Wizard is pulling him further away from his parents and says that he is leaving to go to the concert.
www.themoviespoiler.com /Spoilers/augustrush.html   (2577 words)

  
 The Blog | Bob Cesca: Rush Limbaugh: World's Greatest Satirist | The Huffington Post
Rush was referring to Cindy Sheehan and those who support her.
Rush Limbaugh is the rant of the old men at the corner gas station waiting for a tourist to come by to gawk at the outside world.
Unless Rush Limbaugh starts to make more intelligent and truthful arguments and statements, he'll go down in the public eye with all of the those that walk all over our liberties in the name of patriotism, even if it is thickly veiled satire.
www.huffingtonpost.com /bob-cesca/rush-limbaugh-worlds-gr_b_5816.html   (2209 words)

  
 Lilting 'August Rush' is poetry in emotion - USATODAY.com
August Rush (* * * out of four) will not be for everyone, but it works if you surrender to its lilting and unabashedly sentimental tale of evocative music and visual poetry.
Early on, there is a particularly powerful scene in which Russell and her cello and Meyers and his guitar are juxtaposed, creating an intriguing sound, a kind of soaring classical-rock hybrid.
August Rush is a film that is all about the transformative emotional power of music.
www.usatoday.com /life/movies/reviews/2007-11-20-august-rush_N.htm   (579 words)

  
 August Rush Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes
AUGUST RUSH jumps to the present and begins to follow Evan (Freddie Highmore), an 11 year old who has grown up in a boys' home.
AUGUST RUSH isn't a film for the cynics, but even the hard-hearted in the audience will have difficulty not being touched by this sentimental film.
"August Rush" is a familiar, yet entertaining experience that works mostly because of the wonderful cast and the haunting mix of music.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/august_rush   (1092 words)

  
 Freddie Highmore Shines in August Rush - August Rush - Epinions.com
He believed that his appreciation for music had come from the parents he never knew and he hoped that if he could learn how to play music, his parents would be able to hear it and find him.
Most of August Rush focused in on Evan/August and his belief that his musical ability would somehow help him find his parents.
August Rush did jump back and forth in time a few times.
www.epinions.com /content_409080860292   (1434 words)

  
 August Rush (2007): Reviews
Years later, performing on the streets of New York and cared for by a mysterious stranger who gives him the name August Rush, the child uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth.
August Rush is a rather prosaic, oddly anxious, contemporary take on Dickens' Oliver Twist, with Williams – in nasty-man twee mode, a newish one for him – thrown in for bad measure.
To describe August Rush as a piece of shameless hokum doesn’t quite do justice to the potentially shock-inducing sugar content of this contemporary fairy tale.
www.metacritic.com /film/titles/augustrush   (1180 words)

  
 JRMfansite.org » News & Updates Archive
August Rush tells the story of a charismatic young Irish guitarist (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and a sheltered young cellist (Keri Russell) who have a chance encounter one magical night above New York’s Washington Square, but are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance.
Jonathan has been offered and accepted a role in “August Rush”, a film set in New York City and to be directed by Kirsten Sheridan.
“August Rush” is a fantasy love story set in Central Park, where an orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents.
www.jrmfansite.org /tag/august-rush   (711 words)

  
 FilmStew.com • Russell's in a Rush
Robin Williams and Jonathan Rhys Meyers are already attached to star in helmer Kristen Sheridan's August Rush.
The Hollywood Reporter indicates she's joining the cast of August Rush, to be directed by Kirsten Sheridan for Warner Bros.
Shooting on August Rush begins this summer in New York.
www.filmstew.com /Content/Article.asp?ContentID=13194&Pg=1   (193 words)

  
 August Rush (2007)
Going in to August Rush you've got to be more than willing to accept fairytale magic; you've got to be willing to embrace it, with all of its whimsy and overzealous sense of wonder.
When August discovers things like guitars and sheet music that allow him to produce the music he hears, he becomes a prodigy, and a sensation.
Because August Rush is all about the magic of fate and coincidence, this little boy's love of music comes from some sort of machinations of the gods: His mother Lyla (Keri Russell) is a star concert cellist and his father Louis (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is the guitarist and singer of a rock band.
www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=147071&buy=open&Tab=reviews&CID=13   (700 words)

  
 August Rush
Going in to August Rush, you've got to be more than willing to accept fairy tale magic; you've got to be looking to embrace it, with all of its whimsy and overzealous sense of wonder.
And of course, because August Rush is all about the magic of fate and coincidence, this little boy's love of music comes from some sort of machinations of the gods: His mother Lyla (Keri Russell) is a star concert cellist; his father Louis (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is the guitarist and singer of a rock band.
While it is totally in character for a fairy tale to feature people who feel an instant and inexplicable connection to one another, August Rush relies on the device more than is strictly necessary, and unfortunately is content to have it stand in for actual character development.
www.absolutely.net /movie/2007_August_Rush.html   (694 words)

  
 Movie Review for August Rush
August Rush is one of those rare movies that made me dislike it, then won be back over before the end credits roll.
Just about everything in August Rush has been done before, but somehow, it still works and the deeper the movie gets, the more it draws you in to the point that you can look past the derivative nature of the film and enjoy it.
There’s no way to avoid saying it: August Rush is a “feel-good movie” with a bit of a fairy tale element with the story of the forlorn orphan seeking out his parents and finding a world of instant success along the way.
www.cinemablend.com /review.php?id=2725   (1499 words)

  
 Hannah's Jonathan Rhys Meyers "Augush Rush" Page
Plot: August Rush tells the story of boy who has lost his parents and embarks on a magical musical journey to be reunited with them.
August Rush is produced by Richard Barton Lewis (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Backdraft) and directed by Kirsten Sheridan (Disco Pigs) from a screenplay by Sheridan (Oscar nominee for In America) and Lewis, Nick Castle (The Boy Who Could Fly, Hook) and Jim Hart (Contact, Hook), story by Lewis and Paul Castro.
August Rush will be released domestically by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, and internationally by Odyssey Entertainment.
homepage.ntlworld.com /btcrick/august_rush.htm   (395 words)

  
 Motoring News | Car insurers prepare for August rush
As a result, the beginning of August is the busiest time of year for car insurers.
As the only car insurer in the UK market to guarantee to beat renewal quotes for drivers who have not claimed for four years, August is particularly busy for Privilege.
Special resourcing plans are in place at its Leeds call centre in order to cope with demand, and improvements have been made to the privilege.com web site to make it even quicker and easier to obtain a quote.
www.easier.com /view/News/Motoring/article-26782.html   (342 words)

  
 2007 August Rush - Movie reviews, trailers, clips and stills
Evidence be damned, August resolutely believes this based on his claimed mystical connection with the universe, through the secret language of music.
August Rush is full of itself, and happy to remind us at every opportunity.
Or the way one talented character, as she lays eyes on August for the first time, is emotionally affected in a way that Hollywood has done to death.
www.celebritywonder.com /movie/2007_August_Rush.html   (959 words)

  
 Horizon to Horizon - Rob Pagano's Rush Music Tribute - Album sales
Rush released their first album in August 1974, and have released 17 studio albums, 1 special EP, 5 compilations, 5 live albums, and 4 full-length videos.
As of August 2003, Rush have sold 24.5 million albums, putting them in 70th place on the RIAA All-Time U.S. Sales list.
As of August 2003, Rush have received certifications of "Gold" or better for 22 albums, which ties them for 14th place among all artists, and FIFTH PLACE among those classified as "Groups" by the RIAA.
rush.robpagano.com /index.php?c=sales   (265 words)

  
 Think Progress » Lies, Damn Lies, and Limbaugh’s Press Release About Progressive Radio
Rush claims to have won the ratings battle in Austin — but the progressive alternative is a low-watt station that broadcasts not out of Austin, but 20 miles away in bustling Pflugersville, Texas.
Rush is unhappy that he may slide into irrelavance, or at least we can hope.
Rush Limbaugh had to resort to twisting facts,twisting ratings and twisting the truth to convince people he is on top.
thinkprogress.org /2005/08/10/limbaugh-radio-lies   (15269 words)

  
 AUGUST RUSH - New York Post
Remarkably, August's only previous musical training is a brief stint with Wizard, played by Robin Williams in a red toupee as a cross between Fagin and Don Imus.
August has inherited his musical talent from his parents, a classical cellist (Keri Russell) and an Irish rock musician (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) who conceived him during a one-night stand on a rooftop overlooking Washington Square Park.
Also in the crowd are all of August's benefactors: a spunky street kid (Leon Thomas III); a kindly social worker (Terrence Howard, cashing in on his Oscar); a kindlier priest (Mykelti Williamson); and the kindliest woman (Marian Seldes) who apparently runs both Juilliard and the New York Philharmonic.
www.nypost.com /seven/11212007/entertainment/movies/august_rush_811112.htm   (661 words)

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