![]() The night of the concert, Evan finally chooses to run from Wizard in favor of performing at his concert. He has a chance meeting with Evan in Washington Square Park and they play music together, although neither knows who the other is. Louis, being mistakenly told that Lyla has left on her honeymoon, also returns to New York to resume playing with his former band. She is then chosen to play in the same concert, which features Evan's piece (under the name "August Rush"). While there, she decides to resume her cello career. Meanwhile, Lyla has discovered her son's name and has decided to stay in New York while searching for him. Unfortunately, Wizard barges into the dress-rehearsal and, after Wizard threatens to reveal Evan's real name, Evan reluctantly follows him back to his life of performing music on the streets. After a raid by the police, Evan takes refuge in a church, where he again impresses with his natural musical talent and is enrolled at the Juilliard School as "August Rush." He proves to be an excellent student, better than the college students there, and a work he composes is chosen to be performed by the New York Philharmonic in Central Park. At about the same time, Louis reconciles with his bandmates. Meanwhile, she begins playing the cello again, having been called back to the New York Philharmonic. Lyla immediately sets out to New York to look for her now 12-year-old son. Lyla discovers that her son is alive when her father, knowing that he is dying, confesses what actually happened. Wizard enlists him and gives him the name "August Rush", convincing him he will be sent back to the orphanage if his real name is ever discovered. Evan immediately proves to be a musical child prodigy. "Wizard" (Robin Williams), who houses various orphans and runaways, employing them to play music on the streets and taking a large cut of their tips. He follows Arthur and is taken in by Maxwell Wallace, a.k.a. He meets Arthur, a boy who was playing the guitar on a street corner for money. Evan has a very strong faith that if he could learn to play the music he will have a chance to be found by his parents. Both Louis and Lyla gave up their musical careers after losing each other, and neither was aware of their son's existence. Little did she know, her father forged her signature on the adoption papers. The last thing she was aware of was the nurses telling her that the baby's heartbeat was falling. While in the hospital, she gave birth to a son. After an argument with her father, Lyla ran out of a restaurant and was hit by a car. Her father did not approve of this, he wanted Lyla to have a successful career without the obstacle of a child. From that one night together Lyla became pregnant with their child. Due to Lyla's strict father, Lyla was unable to meet Louis where she'd agreed to and they parted, apparently never to see each other again. ![]() ![]() His parents met at the same party and spent the romantic night together. Through a series of flashbacks, his parents are revealed to be named Lyla Novacek, (Keri Russell), a famous concert cellist, and Louis Connelly (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), an Irish guitarist and lead singer of a rock band. He wants Evan to confide in him if the need should ever arise. Jeffries likes Evan and gives him his card. Evan tells him he does not want to be adopted. He meets a social service worker, Richard Jeffries (Terrence Howard), of the New York Child Services Department. ![]() He thinks that they always wanted him and would come and get him someday. He believes that he can hear the music from his parents. He can hear music in everything: the light, the wind, the air. A boy named Evan Taylor (Freddie Highmore) grows up an outcast in a home for boys, all the while believing that his parents are alive. ![]()
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