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Comparisons to Forrest Gump have saddled The Truman Show: the nebulously cheerful protagonist, the Tupperware set design, the Big Picture conceit. But those parallels dissolve when the soundtrack album commences. This is no brand-inducing pop-song nostalgia trip; it's an authentic document of The Truman Show's musical imperative, a mix of percolating minimalism and sweeping orchestrations that imbue the film with its atmosphere of apocrypha and fable. Composers Burkhard Dallwitz and Philip Glass share the responsibility. Dallwitz gets the opening theme; Glass, the anthems (borrowed from previous scores) and much of the finale. One highlight is "Truman Sleeps," Glass's solo-piano on-screen cameo. The eccentric closing track, a rockabilly remake of T. Rex's "Twentieth Century Boy," couldn't be more true to director Peter Weir's populist vision. --Marc Weidenbaum

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1.Do something! 2.Flashback 3.Raising the sail 4.Anthem-part 2 5.Truman sleeps 6.Dreaming of Fiji 7.Romance - Larghetto 8.The begenning 9.It's a life 10.Trutalk 11.Aquaphobia 12.Living waters 13.Underground storm 14.Underground 15.Truman sets sail 16.Drive 17.Reunion 18.Father kolbe's preaching, ISBN13: B000007OAP ISBN10: B000007OAP Material Type: audioCD