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"Evan's Musical Journey to Reunion"

Evan Taylor lives in an orphanage believing his parents are still alive. Through flashbacks, it is revealed his mother Lyla was a famous cellist who became pregnant after a one-night stand with guitarist Louis. Lyla's controlling father sent Evan to an orphanage after Lyla was in an accident. Evan has a strong belief that following music will reunite him with his parents. He goes to New York and lives on the streets, using his musical talents. Lyla discovers Evan is alive when her father confesses on his deathbed. Both parents go to New York searching for Evan. They are eventually reunited when Evan conducts a piece for the New York Philharmonic and sees Lyla and Louis in the

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"Evan's Musical Journey to Reunion"

Evan Taylor lives in an orphanage believing his parents are still alive. Through flashbacks, it is revealed his mother Lyla was a famous cellist who became pregnant after a one-night stand with guitarist Louis. Lyla's controlling father sent Evan to an orphanage after Lyla was in an accident. Evan has a strong belief that following music will reunite him with his parents. He goes to New York and lives on the streets, using his musical talents. Lyla discovers Evan is alive when her father confesses on his deathbed. Both parents go to New York searching for Evan. They are eventually reunited when Evan conducts a piece for the New York Philharmonic and sees Lyla and Louis in the

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A boy named Evan Taylor (Freddie Highmore) lives in an orphanage, all the while believing that his

parents are alive. He believes the music that he hears all around him is his parents communicating
with him. He meets a counselor, Richard Jeffries ( Terrence Howard), of the New York Child Services
Department. Evan tells him he does not want to be adopted, because he believes his parents are still
alive and will come to collect him eventually.

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, who spent one romantic night together and never saw each other again. Lyla became
pregnant, which her father did not approve of, instead wanting Lyla to have a successful career
without the obstacle of a child. After an argument with her father, Lyla ran out of a restaurant and
was hit by a car. While in hospital, she gave birth to a son. Afterwards, she was told by her father
that her child "was gone", unaware that he had actually been delivered successfully and then been
sent to an orphanage by her father.

Evan has a strong faith that as long as he follows the music he hears and reacts to it, he will have a
chance to be found by his parents. He makes his way to New York City, where he is taken in by a man
known as "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. Evan immediately proves to be a
musical child prodigy. 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.

Lyla only discovers that her son is alive when her father, knowing that he is dying, confesses what
actually happened. Lyla immediately sets out to New York to look for her 11-year-old son.

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." A work he composes is chosen
to be performed by the New York Philharmonic in Central Park, but Wizard barges into a rehearsal,
and Evan reluctantly follows him back to his life of performing music on the streets.

Meanwhile, Lyla has discovered Evan's identity and has decided to stay in New York while searching
for her son. While there, she decides to resume her cello career. She is then chosen to play in the
same concert, which features Evan's piece. Louis, being wrongly told that Lyla has since married, also
returns to New York to resume playing with his former band. He has a chance meeting with Evan
in Washington Square Park and they play music together, although neither knows who the other is.

The night of the concert, Evan finally chooses to run from Wizard in favor of performing at his
concert. In the meantime, Louis races to the park when he sees Evan's pseudonym along with Lyla's
name on a sign billing the concert. Evan conducts his piece, and at its conclusion, he turns around to
see Lyla and Louis standing hand in hand, and he finally makes the connection that they are his
parents.

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