Watch my movie like a kid, says Meyers

Jonathan Rhys Meyers, star of the soon-to-be-released August Rush film from Warner Brothers, has advised movie-lovers to view the story from a child's point of view, according to reports.

The film is set in New York and depicts a ten-year-old boy searching for his birth parents and Meyers is convinced that thinking like a kid is the best way to get the most of out watching the movie.

Meyers' character is the father of the musically gifted boy, but he does not know it as the plot begins to unfold and he told the Associated Press that audiences ought to throw out their "adult glasses" taking in the movie.

"How a 45-year-old man and a ten-year-old boy see New York are completely different things," said Meyers.

"To really get the most out of the film, you have to start seeing through the eyes of a boy."

Meyers stared alongside Scarlet Johansson in Woody Allen's Match Point and with Kiera Knightly in the British-made box office hit Bend It Like Beckham.

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