August Rush is a 2007 drama film directed by Kirsten Sheridan and written by Paul Castro, Nick Castle, and James V. Hart, and produced by Richard Barton Lewis. Several reviewers have noted that it is an up-to-date reworking of the Oliver Twist story by Charles Dickens.

Plot

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