I was watching August Rush the other day and I couldn't help but think, boy. I hate to say it, but Freddie Highmore peaked at 13. He hadn't been in anything worth mentioning since...The Spiderwick Chronicles....and that's barely mentionable. Although, I watched him in BBC's film, Toast, and he and Helena Bonham Carter (LOVE THAT WOMAN) just bonded like they were back on the set of Women Talking Dirty. He kind of shocked me a bit here with this character, a gay boy in the 60's who wants to be a chef, and though I'm used to Helena Bonham Carter taking on shocking roles, she was once again in her prime element. I think Highmore's got so much potential as an actor, that when I saw the trailer to this film, I was glad he wasn't cast aside because he wasn't the cute little boy from Finding Neverland or August Rush anymore. This film, The Art of Getting By is a Sundance pick, and I'm ecstatic for it to succeed because not only does it have Highmore, which I completely respect as a young actor, it's got Emma Roberts, creating her own way out of her famous aunt's spotlight and getting a spotlight of her own. It also has black sheep Michael Angarano, who kind of blows my mind in the indie film Black Irish with Brendan Gleeson and recent Oscar winner Melissa Leo, and is just a riot in Ceremony with Uma Thurman and Lee Pace (Someone whom I've loved since his Pushing Daisies days with Kristin Chenoweth), but going back to The Art. Seriously, I'm not a big Sundance selection film watcher and I don't watch films because they were selected by Sundance. Like I said, I don't really discriminate films at all--regardless of whom they were made by, unless I've already discriminated before and it was so terrible that I swore to myself I'll never watch another film ever again by the director/producer/actor et al.... But this one I'm actually going to make the effort to see. I'm pleasantly surprised, and I hope you will be too.
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