I loved this movie but I can't recommend it, as I was the only one in the theatre who wasn't laughing or groaning at the screen. I just couldn't hate a movie about a child musical genius. It has a sweet, 80's-era Spielberg glow to it in some scenes, but the script is laughable and full of contrivances--as soon as a scene begins, you know exactly where it's going. The cast certainly couldn't be better, though, especially the little Afro-American gospel-singing girl whom August meets in a church.
I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."