Author: Danny Elfman

Format: Soundtrack

Release Date: 02-12-1997

Details: Amazon.ca Movie soundtracks are chancy in that the music is often geared to specific parts of the film that are meant to evoke concurrent emotions; many don't hold up apart from their cinematic context. The trend of the past few years has been to gratuitously traipse down memory lane, with the convenient stance that a hit parade of 1970s funk will lend an otherwise bloodless film some street cred. Thankfully the soundtrack to Good Will Hunting doesn't strive for fake urban cool; this film about white, working-class Bostonians gets a mostly white, working-class sound. The soundtrack effectively mirrors the half-filled desires and lives that the film capitalises on: restlessness, ennui, doubt and unrequited love rule here. Elliott Smith contributes the most, and the best, songs: beautiful weepers that outshine Danny Elfman's sombre original score, which makes only a few appearances. --Alan E. Rapp Product description Sublime Elliott Smith / Danny Elfman soundtrack includes the Academy Award nominated "Miss Misery"

UPC: 724382333821

EAN: 0724382333821

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood