August Rush

At the beginning, Evan was a eleven-year-old orphan who desired to find his parents. He could hear the music that other children couldn't. All the orphans wanted to be adopted except him. He believed that his parents would come to find him someday, so he sneaked from the orphanage. He came to New York and met a child who came from a place led by "Wizard" who housed many orphans for street performing. Wizard gave Evan the name "August Rush" and convinced him he will be sent back to the orphanage if his real name was known by other people.

Louis and Lyla met in eleven years before. Louis was the Irish guitarist and lead singer of a rock band and Laura was a famous cellist. They had an romantic night and never saw each other again. Lyla became pregnant, which made her father angry, insisted Lyla giving up the child. After they quarreled with each other, Lyla had a car accident. When she came to in hospital, she was told by her father that her child had died. In fact, her father sent his grandson to an orphanage. Louis had never forgotten Lyla and didn't know about Evan. However, both gave up their music careers.
When Lyla's father was dying, he told everything to Lyla, including the child. Lyla flied to New York to find her son and began to play cello again. She got a chance to perform in the New York Philharmonic. Meanwhile, Louis was also back to the band and decided to sing at an restaurant in New York for he got the wrong information that Lyla was married. At the same time, Evan was enrolled at Juilliard School as ''August Rush" for his great talent in music. His work was chosen to be performed by the New York Philharmonic in Central Park, but Wizard barged into a rehearsal and took him back the life of performing music on street. Evan met his father in coincidence although they didn't know each other.
Finally, Evan ran away from Wizard and performed his work as his original plan. Lyla was attracted by Evan's music and Louis also came to the concert because he saw Evan's pseudonym along with Lyla's name on a sign billing. In the end, Evan finally found his parents.
The whole movie is connected by different kinds of pieces of music. Although I think the plot is quite hackneyed, I still love this story for its music is fantastic. Besides, I also find some mistakes. Take Evan for example. His lines are too mature for a eleven-year-old and the wrinkled hands in Evan's performance at Central Park are totally unfitting to a child. Anyway, it's a good movie.