1986

Film Score an Soundtrack Album

Produced, Programmed & Performed by

Anthony Marinelli & Brian Banks

Composer  Jack Nitzsche

DIRECTOR  Rob Reiner

PRODUCERS  Bruce A. Evans, Raynold Gideon, and Andrew Scheinmalin

Distributor Columbia Pictures

ACTORS  Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O' Connell, Kiefer Sutherland

About the Score

Instrumentation  65 Piece Orchestra

Soloists  Harp, Piano, Exotic Flutes, Female Vocalist, Child Vocalist, Tabla

Style  Classical/Jazz

Film Synopsis

Based on the Stephen King short story "The Body", Rob Reiner's easygoing nostalgia piece is set in Castle Rock, OR, over Labor Day weekend, 1959. A quartet of boys, inseparable friends all, set out in search of a dead body that one of the boys overhears his brother talking about. The foursome consists of intellectual Gordie (Wil Wheaton), born leader Chris (River Phoenix), emotionally disturbed Teddy (Corey Feldman), and chubby hanger-on Vern (Jerry O'Connell). The boys' adventures en route to the elusive body are colored by the personal pressures brought to bear on all of them by the adult world. Richard Dreyfuss, playing the grown-up Gordie, narrates the film, while Kiefer Sutherland dominates every scene he's in as a brutish high-school bully.

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