Saw this movie last night. This is a great one to watch ironically. Even if you liked the movie seriously the first time, you should be able to make fun of it the second time.
It's 'Forrest Gump' meets 'A Beautiful Mind' meets 'Amadeus' meets 'Oliver Twist'.
It's about a boy who grows up in foster care because he was the product of a one-night-stand between a rock star and a concert celloist. He resists being placed with a real family, because he feels he can get back with his real parents through music. So he 'follows the music' to the streets of NYC and lives there for six months.
He gets discovered as a street musician and is accepted into Julliard without a real name, parents, address, phone number or a high school diploma. His Mom-turned-music-teacher finds out that he's actually alive during that short time that he is untrackable, living on the streets and studying in college. Or maybe he was living on campus for free? It dosen't matter. His Dad had given up playing in the band because he was so distraught over that one night and went into the business world.
So this is a family adventure of uniting the three through music and, you know, looking around for each other. It ends in an amazing climax of more music, and looking around and finding each other.
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I've never seen this movie but it sounds like it also has a 'Mr Holland's Opus' to it too...
Yeah you're right, kind of in a Yanni sort of way.
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