Life as a House: Original Motion Picture Score [Soundtrack]

life as a house: original motion picture score [soundtrack]

Track Listings

1. If I Could Kiss You

2. Round Robin

3. Tear It Down

4. Love Is Not Enough

5. I'm Happy Today

6. Leap

7. Sunscreen and Bycicles

8. Promise

9. Build This House With Me

10. Leap of Faith

11. Building a Family

12. I'll Take This One

13. I Built Myself a Life

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
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 McCulley

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Life as a House: Original Motion Picture Score [Soundtrack]

Average customer rating:

love the music to this movie
Cool Scores, but Rock is sOOO much better!
What a score!!
Another fine Mark Isham score
It was 2 a.m. in the morning and nothing was on except this

Life as a House: Original Motion Picture Score

Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005R8DM
Release Date: 2001-10-30

Tracks:

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

Amazon.com

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 McCulley

Customer Reviews:

love the music to this movie.......2005-08-10

absolutely loved the score of the movie and so had to get the soundtrack. everytime I listen to it, I remember exactly which scene it was played in. the score also has a nice calming effect whenever I'm stressed which is great.

Cool Scores, but Rock is sOOO much better!.......2005-07-14

I am 16 years old, and I just watched Life as a House. Ihaven't stopped watching since then! it is a great movie and the movie is made by the awesome pop/rock songs! Its too bad that soundtrack doesn't have em. You can't go wrong with Limp Bizkit, Marilyn Manson, Guster, and Default.

What a score!!.......2005-02-18

I saw the movie and it's one of my favourite ever, great story, great actors. But that's another story. When I read the previous reviews I was so sad none of the pop/rock songs of the movie were included in the Soundtrack. I then recorded these songs on my own and made an altrenative "Soundtrack". Both Sides Now, Rainy Day and the others: superb.
Anyway I took a chance to buy the Score CD through Amazon. Well, it is super as well. First of all, unlike the most of the movies' scores, the main title is not being repeated in all the tracks. There's a variety of melodies in this cd. Melodic, passional, funny, thoughtful, dramatic. The Orchestra support is magic as well, it gives the tracks a warm arrangement. I found it very good. Mark Isham really did a superb job. If you like relaxing music that's a great opportunity.

Another fine Mark Isham score.......2005-02-01

Mark Isham can do little wrong; the score for Life as a House is another winner, though I wonder if he can ever top the haunting music from Mrs. Soffel (from the Film Music CD). So many have asked about the song Both Sides Now. The version in the film is indeed Joni Mitchell. It can be found on the 2004 CD Dreamland and the 2000 CD Both Sides Now.

It was 2 a.m. in the morning and nothing was on except this.......2004-11-20

The emotions running through me right now are taking over my body. This movie. This picture of this family is so real. I loved Kline in this movie, he made this character come alive and you wanted more, you wanted him to live. This is up there with my all-time favorites. I'll never forget this film. It made me cry. It made me laugh and see the goodness of what people can be, what people are. And I loved the music, the bands. But most of all, I loved the score. It made me cry with every scene. There are just no words strong enough to say how much I loved this movie....

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