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Music Supervisor: P. J. Bloom
Music: James S. Levine
Artists: Average White Band, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, 10cc, Catherine Feeny, The 5th Dimensions, Nat King Cole, Phoebe Snow, Elton John, Al Stewart, Vince Guaraldi Trio, James S. Levine and Crosby, Stills & Nash
Label: EMI 09463-71841-2-7
13 Tracks
Running Length: 58 minutes
It takes care to choose background music for a film concerning psychological problems. In this case, Running With Scissors is a poignant comedy of deep family issues, so we end up with a compilation of artists as Phoebe Snow, Elton John, Nat King Cole and The 5th Dimension. Up beat music.
The story of Running With Scissors concerns a young man (Joseph Cross) growing up in the 1970’s with a bi-polar mother (Annette Bening) and an alcoholic father (Alec Baldwin.) After the parents divorce, the boy goes to live with his mother’s psychiatrist (Brian Cox) and his extended family. Definitely not a typical situation. The story tells how the boy copes. The film is rated R for language, sexuality and substance abuse.
The only original piece of music on this soundtrack is “A Great Ocean Liner” by James S. Levine. It is an instrumental piece that fits in nicely with the music surrounding it, “O Tannenbaum,” a soft jazz rendition of the Christmas carol and done by the Vince Guaraldi Trio, then Nat King Cole’s classic, “Stardust.”
Running With Scissors gives the listener favorite selections of a generation past and I note my favorites here of “One Less Bell To Answer” by The 5th Dimension,” Phoebe Snow doing “Poetry Man,” and Al Stewart’s “Year of the Cat.” The choice of songs sets the mood of this period and a background for what is happening in the storyline.
Copyright 2006 Marie Asner
Filmer456@aol.com
Submitted 10/8/06
