Life as a House
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Performer: Kevin KlinePerformer: Kristin Scott Thomas
Performer: Hayden Christensen
Performer: Jena Malone
Performer: Mary Steenburgen
Performer: Mike Weinberg
Performer: Scotty Leavenworth
Performer: Ian Somerhalder
Performer: Jamey Sheridan
Performer: Scott Bakula
Performer: Sandra Nelson
Performer: Sam Robards
Performer: John Pankow
Performer: Kim Delgado
Performer: Barry Primus
Performer: Margo Winkler
Performer: Brandon Kessel
Performer: Jon Foster
Performer: Art Chudabala
Performer: Claire Yarlett
Edition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2001-10-30
Music Label: Varese Sarabande
Soundtracks:
- If I Could Kiss You
- Round Robin
- Tear It Down
- Love Is Not Enough
- I'm Happy Today
- Leap
- Sunscreen and Bycicles
- Promise
- Build This House With Me
- Leap of Faith
- Building a Family
- I'll Take This One
- I Built Myself a Life
Free Music Notes for Life as a House
Free Music Review: Why 'review' what this IS NOT?
Hit: 5 Stars
I can NEVER understand people who think they're reviewing something that is
only related because SOME of it's in the same movie. No, there aren't any
songs on this cd. There isn't supposed to be! HERE IS THE SCORE. And it's
INCREDIBLE! It has choked me up and put me to tears, time and time again.
Without THIS music, I doubt the movie would've worked. I think the other 4+
star reviews (of the SCORE, NOT the movie or songs) are where you should be
looking now. I'm too incensed to feel the love I have for Isham's work.
Life as a House Poster
While Irwin Winkler's bittersweet film constructs a touching allegory--Kevin Kline's character is diagnosed with terminal cancer and sets about both salvaging a relationship with his estranged son and building the house of his dreams--it's also the kind of story that requires a deft musical touch, one that embodies a sense of buoyant optimism even as it heads toward the dramatically inevitable. Alternating between vibrant, rhythmic passages carried largely by mallet instruments (and resembling a more structured take on similar Tom Newman cues) and the melancholy of his quietly effective writing for strings and solo piano, Mark Isham's score strikes an almost perfect emotional balance amid a minefield of potential bathos. It also fuses some of the composer's modern minimalist composing instincts and spacious sense of dynamics with the more traditionally pastoral, resulting in emotionally introspective music that is considerably more than the sum of its parts. --Jerry McCulleySoundtracks Music CDs
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