16 reasons to watch August Rush - movie review

16 reasons to watch “August Rush.” What has August Rush got to do with the Elections?

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1. It is a family movie and entertainment for the entire family.
2. It promotes the good old belief of love at first sight.
3. It treasures love at first sight and advocates fidelity across a decade.
4. It teaches perseverance to persist.
5. It shows compassion at work in humanity.
6. It shows racial and ethnic harmony.
7. It endorses the pursuit of worthy dreams.
8. It cements the myth of the fairy tale belief in happy endings.
9. It enforces the faith in the brotherhood of man and in friendship.
10. It shows the ruthlessness of selfishness.
11. It reiterates the belief in the American Dream.
12. It extols the blacks as integral components of the society.
13. It reminds that the black sheep is not necessarily black in color.
14. It comes at an appropriate time just as America faces the Presidential Elections in 2008. Black is the old black and it is in vogue. Black is beautiful and good.
15. It advocates respect for music and artistes.
16. Its message is pro-life. Lyla Novacheck and her biological son, Evan Taylor (August Rush), waited 11 years to be re-united. Neither parent nor child gave up the instinctive hope that they would be re-united.

August and the street musician, Arthur, who helped him get a roof over his head.

The Church Choir that influenced August Rush.

Terrence Howard played the social service worker with a heart.

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