IMDB: 7.5
Cast: Freddie Highmore (as Evan Taylor), Robin Williams (as Maxwell Wallace), Keri Russel (as Lyla Novacek), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Louis Connelly)
Evan doesn't have any family. At least he doesn't know them. But he is eager to find them. He runs away from the orphanage to find his family in the city. He follows the sounds and the musici inside his soul. He first finds himself at a church. Then, he finds himself with a thief. The thief literally captures him. He gives him the name August. His last stop happens to be a music academy. He's naturally talented so he doesn't have a hard time to fit in. Maxwell, the thief, tries to sabotage his future in the academy. Still, he doesn't give up from music and wites a song including the whole orchestra. His mom and dad hears the music and in the end, they all see each other like he imagined.
Personal Thoughts: I love Freddie Highmore since Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He looks really sensitive in a way and I get really emotional when he acts. The Art of Getting by is a really great movie too. Also, now he's on Bates Motel which is a TV series inspired by the movie Psycho. I think he's really great there. you can clearly see his psychopath self :p Enough about other movies. The reason why I liked this movie was because it is really emotional. I first cried in the beginning when he was in the orphanage. I was twelve years old when I watched it maybe that's the reason I cried, I don't know. If you like music, this movie's theme is all about music. There were sad parts when he was living with Maxwell, those parts reminded me of Oliver Twist for some reason. It's also about the confusing, complicated and most of the time, evil city life. I feel myself drifting most of the time since I live in a big city. In this movie, I can clearly relate to that. The ending seemed a bit fictional but that's okay because it was a good movie.
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