SMALL SCREEN, BIG SCORES: PART EIGHTEEN

By Scott Bettencourt

AFTER JIMMY - Patrick Williams
1996/1997 Emmy nominee Outstanding Music Composition For A Miniseries Or A Special (Dramatic Underscore); Meredith Baxter and Bruce Davison as parents coping with their son's suicide; with Peter Facinelli and Eva Marie Saint

ANDERSONVILLE - Gary Chang
John Frankenheimer directed David Rintels' teleplay for this TNT docudrama on the infamous Confederate POW camp; with Jarrod Emick, Frederic Forrest, Cliff De Young, Justin Henry, William H. Macy, Matt McGrath, Gabriel Olds, and William Sanderson

ANTOINE - Claude Bolling

THE ASSASSINATION FILE - Stewart Copeland
Sherilyn Fenn investigates the killing of a black presidential candidate

BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA - Van Dyke Parks
Anjelica Huston directs this adaptation of Dorothy Allison's acclaimed novel, with Jena Malone as an abused girl, Jennifer Jason Leigh as her mother, and Glenne Headley, Ron Eldard, Lyle Lovett, Dermot Mulroney, Christina Ricci, Michael Rooker, Diana Scarwid, and Pat Hingle

THE BEAST - Don Davis
Score CD on Varese Sarabande; dreary miniseries from the Peter Benchley novel about a giant squid, with William L. Petersen, Karen Sillas and Charles Martin Smith

BEYOND THE CALL - George S. Clinton
Tony Bill directs David Strathairn and Sissy Spacek in this Showtime drama about a Vietnam vet on death row and the woman who befriends him

THE BITE - Paul Grabowsky
Australian/British miniseries with Keith Allen, Lesley Manville and Hugo Weaving

BLOODHOUNDS II - Charles Bernstein
Thriller with Corbin Bernsen and Nia Peeples

A BROTHER'S PROMISE: THE DAN JANSEN STORY - Patrick Williams
Matt Keeslar as the Olympic speed skater, with Jayne Brook and Len Cariou

BURIED SECRETS - J. Peter Robinson
Tiffani-Amber Thiessen is possessed by a dead girl

CHARLOTTE SOPHIE BENTICK - Nicola Piovani

CHERCHE FAMILLE DESESPEREMENT - Antoine Duhamel

THE CHEROKEE KID - Stanley Clarke
HBO comedy Western with Sinbad, James Coburn, Gregory Hines, Ernie Hudson and Burt Reynolds

CHRISTMAS EVERY DAY - Billy Goldenberg
Larry Peerce directs Erik Von Detten as a teen who has to relive the same Christmas over and over

COEUR DE CIBLE - Bruno Coulais

COLD LAZARUS - Christopher Gunning
Score CD on Silva, paired with Karaoke; Dennis Potter sci-fi thriller about cryogenics, with Albert Finney, Ciaran Hinds and Diane Ladd

CRAZY HORSE - Lennie Niehaus
Another TNT Native American biopic, with Michael Greyeyes in the title role and co-starring Ned Beatty and Wes Studi, directed by John Irvin (The Dogs of War, Ghost Story)

CRIME OF THE CENTURY - John Frizzell
Mark Rydell directed this HBO movie about the Lindbergh kidnapping trial, written by William Nicholson, with Stephen Rea and Isabella Rosselini as the Hauptmanns, co-starring Michael Moriarty, David Paymer, and J.T. Walsh

THE CROW ROAD - Colin Towns

THE CRYING CHILD - Shirley Walker
Mariel Hemingway begins to hear the cries of her dead child

DANGEROUS OFFENDER: THE MARLENE MOORE STORY - Mychael Danna
Canadian docudrama with Robert Joy

DEAD AHEAD - Charles Bernstein
River Wild-style thriller with Stephanie Zimbalist as an archer trying to protect her family from bank robbers in the woods

DEADLY PURSUITS - John Frizzell
Tori Spelling as a stripper menaced by the mob

DEADLY VOYAGE - John Scott
Stowaways on a Russian ship are menaced by the crew; John Mackenzie directs Omar Epps and Joss Ackalnd

DIE STRABEN VON BERLIN - ALLEINGANG - Pino Donaggio

A DIFFERENT KIND OF CHRISTMAS - Craig Safan
Holiday romance with Shelley Long and Barry Bostwick

DOCTOR WHO - John Debney, John Sponsler, Louis Febre
Score CD released as a composer promo; One-shot attempt to revive the popular British TV character with Paul McGann as The Doctor and Eric Roberts (!) as his nemesis The Master

DOPO LA TEMPTESTA - Luis Bacalov

DOUBLE JEOPARDY - Arthur B. Rubinstein
Married cop Joe Penny is suspected in the murder of his underage girlfriend; with Teri Garr, Shawn Hatosy, Frederic Forrest and Brittany Murphy

DUMB WITNESS - Christopher Gunning
David Suchet as Hercule Poirot, yet again

ESCAPE CLAUSE - Ken Thorne, Richard Marvin
Andrew McCarthy as a man who suspects his wife is trying to kill him; directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith

FAISONS UN REVE - Vladimir Cosma

FOR LOVE ALONE: THE IVANA TRUMP STORY - Don Davis
Adaptation of an Ivana Trump novel
 
GENERATION X - J. Peter Robinson
Youth oriented revisionist X-Men directed by Jack Sholder (The Hidden), with Matt Frewer and Finola Hughes

THE GIRL - Colin Towns

GULLIVER'S TRAVELS - Trevor Jones
Score CD on RCA; Lavish adaptation of the Swift classic, with Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen as the Gullivers, co-starring James Fox, Edward Fox, Ned Beatty, Alfre Woodard, Geraldine Chaplin, Isabelle Huppert, Kristin Scott Thomas, Omar Sharif, Edward Woodward, John Gielgud, and Peter O'Toole as the Emperor of Lilliput

HOLIDAY AFFAIR - Lee Holdridge
Yuletide romance with Cynthia Gibb and Tom Irwin

IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK - Cliff Eidelman
HBO anthology movie about abortion with segments directed by Nancy Savoca and Cher, featuring Demi Moore, Shirley Knight, Jason London, Catherine Keener, CCH Pounder, Sissy Spacek, Harris Yulin, Joanna Gleason, Anne Heche, Jada Pinkett, Eileen Brennan, Lindsay Crouse, Craig T. Nelson, Rita Wilson, Matthew Lillard, and Cher

IN THE LAKE OF THE WOODS - Don Davis
From the Tim O'Brien (The Things They Carried) novel: Senatorial candidate Peter Strauss hunts for missing wife Kathleen Quinlan

IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE II - Shirley Walker
Brian Kerwin and Elizabeth Pena in a sequel to the 50s sci-fi classic

J'AI RENDEZ-VOUS AVEC VOUS - Bruno Coulais

JAKE'S WOMEN - David Shire
Glenn Jordan (Only When I Laugh) directs Neil Simon's play, with Alan Alda, Anne Archer, Julie Kavner, Lolita Davidovich, and Mira Sorvino

KARAOKE - Christopher Gunning
Score CD on Silva, paired with Cold Lazarus; Dennis Potter miniseries with Albert Finney, Richard E. Grant, Saffron Burrows, Natahsa McElhone, and Julie Christie

LA COLLINE AUX MILLE ENFANTS - Bruno Coulais

LA VEILLEUR DE NUIT - Claude Bolling
Philippe DeBroca directs Philippe Noiret in this adaptation of a Sacha Guitry story

L'AVVOCATO DELLE DONNE - Luis Bacalov
Score CD on Fonit Cetra; Miniseries with Mariangela Melato as a lawyer

THE LATE SHIFT - Ira Newborn
Score CD on Silva; Betty Thomas directed this HBO movie from Bill Carter's book (adapted by Carter and Grosse Pointe Blank director George Armitage) about the struggle to find Johnny Carson's replacement. With Daniel Roebuck as Jay Leno, John Michael Higgins as David Letterman, Kathy Bates as Helen Kushnick, Bob Balaban as Warren Littlefield, John Getz as Brandon Tartikoff, Ed Begley Jr., and Treat Williams as Michael Ovitz

LE CHEVAL DE COEUR - Vladimir Cosma

LES SOUTERRAINS ETRUSQUES - Vladimir Cosma
Yet more of Francois Dunoyer as Arsene Lupin

THE LIMBIC REGION - Gary Chang
Edward James Olmos as a dying detective trying to catch a serial killer

L'INSOUMISE - Philippe Sarde

THE LITTLE RIDERS - Lee Holdridge
World War II drama set in occupied Holland, with Paul Scofield, Malcolm McDowell, Rosemary Harris, Luke Edwards and Renee Soutendijk

LONDON SUITE - Lee Holdridge
Jay Sandrich directs Neil Simon's followup to Plaza Suite and California Suite, with Madeline Kahn, Michael Richards, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Jonathan Silverman, Richard Mulligan, and Patricia Clarkson and Kelsey Grammer playing the Maggie Smith/Michael Caine roles from California Suite

L'ORANGE DE NOEL - Bruno Coulais

MAMMA, MI SI E DEPRESSO PAPA - Luis Bacalov

THE MAN NEXT DOOR - Charles Fox
Michael Ontkean as a paroled rapist at odds with his new neighbors

THE MAN WHO CAPTURED EICHMANN - Laurence Rosenthal
Docudrama with Robert Duvall as Eichmann, co-starring Arliss Howard and Jeffrey Tambor

MARY & TIM - Michel Colombier
Candice Bergen and Thomas McCarthy (later writer-director of The Station Agent) in a remake of Colleen McCullough's Tim, previously filmed in Australia with Piper Laurie and Mel Gibson, about a middle aged woman's affair with a mentally handicapped young hunk

MISS EVERS' BOYS - Charles Bernstein
Joseph Sargent directs Walter Bernstein's adaptation of the David Feldshuh play about the notorious Tuskegee experiment, where black syphilis patients were allowed to die without proper treatment; with Alfre Woodard, Laurence Fishburne, Ossie Davis and E.G. Marshall

MISTRIAL - Brad Fiedel
Frustrated cop Bill Pullman holds a courtroom hostage; written and directed by Heywood Gould, co-starring Robert Loggia, Blair Underwood and Jon Seda

MY VERY BEST FRIEND - Patrick Williams
The friendship of Jaclyn Smith and Jill Eikenberry leads to murder

NACH UNS DIE SINTFLUT - Pino Donaggio

NEVER GIVE UP: THE JIMMY V STORY - Patrick Williams
Anthony LaPaglia as sports reporter and basketball coach Jimmy Valvano

NO GREATER LOVE - Billy Goldenberg
Danielle Steel adaptation with Kelly Rutherford, Chris Sarandon and Michael Landes

NORMA JEAN AND MARILYN - Christopher Young
Score CD on Intrada; 1995/1996 Emmy nominee Outstanding Music Composition For A Miniseries Or A Special; Marilyn Monroe before (Ashley Judd) and after (Mira Sorvino) stardom, with Josh Charles, Ron Rifkin, Taylor Nichols, Lindsay Crouse, David Dukes as Arthur Miller, Peter Dobson as Joe Dimaggio, John Rubinstein as Darryl Zanuck, Dana Goldstone as Lee Strasberg, and Allan Corduner as Billy Wilder

NOSTROMO - Ennio Morricone
Score CD on Sugar/Polydor; BBC miniseries from the Joseph Conrad novel (a dream project of David Lean's), with Lothaire Bluteau, Claudia Cardinale, Joaquim de Almeida, Brian Dennehy, Colin Firth and Albert Finney

OUR FRIENDS IN THE NORTH - Colin Towns
British miniseries about the decade-spanning friendship of four people, played by Christopher Eccleston, Gina McKee, Mark Strong and Daniel Craig

PANDORA'S CLOCK - Don Davis
The Cassandra Crossing on a plane, with airline passengers menaced by a virus

THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR - David Mansfield
Nicolette Sheridan and her kids flee her abusive husband, only to be menaced by her new neighbors

THE PERFECT DAUGHTER - Don Davis
Amnesiac runaway Tracey Gold is imperiled by a hunt for missing money

PRIME SUSPECT 5: ERRORS OF JUDGMENT - Stephen Warbeck
Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) runs afoul of a druglord

RADIANT CITY - David Mansfield
Lewis Collick screenplay with Kirstie Alley as a 50s housewife tempted to stray

RASPUTIN - Brad Fiedel
HBO movie with Uli Edel directing Alan Rickman as Russia's "Mad Monk," co-starring Greta Scacchi, John Wood, David Warner, James Frain, and Ian McKellen as Tsar Nicholas

REMEMBRANCE - Lee Holdridge
Holdridge scores yet another Danielle Steel adaptation, this one co-starring Angie Dickinson

THE RING - Michel Legrand
Score CD on Silva; Period romance from Danielle Steel, with Nastassja Kinski, Michael York, Alessandro Nivola and Leslie Caron

ROAD TO GALVESTON - Stanley Clarke
Cicely Tyson as a woman taking care of Alzheimer patients; co-starring Piper Laurie, Tess Harper, and Clarence Williams III

THE SCULPTRESS - Colin Towns
Psychological thriller from the Minette Walters novel, directed by Stuart Orme (Robert A. Heinlein's The Puppet Masters)

SEDUCED BY MADNESS: THE DIANE BORCHARDT STORY - Craig Safan
10:26 on the composer promo Craig Safan Film Music; True crime story with Ann-Margret as a teacher's aide who hires students to kill her husband; with Peter Coyote, Leslie Hope, Christian Campbell, Freddy Rodriguez, and Tobey Maguire as her son

SHE CRIED NO - Lee Holdridge
Candace Cameron Bure as a victim of college date rape, with Marc-Paul Gosselar and Bess Armstrong

THE SIEGE AT RUBY RIDGE - Patrick Williams
Docudrama with Laura Dern, Randy Quaid, Joe Don Baker, Diane Ladd, and Kirsten Dunst

SIXIEME CLASSIQUE - Bruno Coulais

SOPHIE & THE MOONHANGER - Charles Bernstein
Racial drama concerning the Ku Klux Klan, with Patricia Richardson and Lynn Whitfield

SOUL OF THE GAME - Lee Holdridge
Delroy Lindo as Satchel Paige, Mykelti Williamson as Josh Gibson, and Blair Underwood as Jackie Robinson

STAR COMMAND - Lee Holdridge
Score CD released as a composer promo, paired with Freefall; Sci-fi about starship cadets, with Jay Underwood, Chris Conrad, Chad Everett and Morgan Fairchild

SUDDENLY - David Mansfield
Waitress Kirstie Alley becomes a paraplegic

THE SUMMER OF BEN TYLER - Van Dyke Parks
1940s family drama set in the South, with James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern and Len Cariou

THE TIDE OF LIFE - Colin Towns
Romantic drama from a Catherine Cookson novel

TITANIC - Lennie Niehaus
3:11 on the Varese CD Titanic: The Ultimate Collection; Period story about some ship sinking, with Catherine Zeta-Jones, Peter Gallagher, Eva Marie Saint, Tim Curry, Roger Rees, Harley Jane Kozak, Marilu Henner, and George C. Scott as the ship's captain. Apparently a feature version was made a year later and went way over budget, and the director hasn't made a feature since.

TRUTH OR DARE - Stephen Warbeck
BBC thriller from John Madden, director of Shakespeare in Love

TWILIGHT MAN - Gary Chang
Craig R. Baxley directed this paranoid thriller starring Tim Matheson and Dean Stockwell

TWISTED DESIRE - Gary Chang
Craig R. Baxley directed this true crime drama with Melissa Joan Hart, Jeremy Jordan, David Lascher, and Daniel Baldwin

UNE FEMME EXPLOSIVE - Claude Bolling

UNE FILLE A PAPAS - Bruno Coulais

AN UNFINISHED AFFAIR - Lee Holdridge
Jennie Garth takes revenge against her ex-lover, Tim Matheson, by sleeping with son, Peter Facinelli

VICE VERTU ET VICE VERSA - Bruno Coulais

A WEEKEND IN THE COUNTRY - Patrick Williams
Rita Rudner co-wrote and co-starred in this comedy featuring Jack Lemmon, Richard Lewis, Betty White, Christine Lahti and Dudley Moore

THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS - Colin Towns
Animated adaptation of the Kenneth Grahame classic, with the voices of Michael Palin, Alan Bennett, Michael Gambon, Barry Foster, Rik Mayall, and Vanessa Redgrave

WOMAN UNDONE - Daniel Licht
Score CD on Citadel, paired with Zooman; Mary McDonnell as a woman suspected of her husband's murder, with Randy Quaid, Sam Elliott and Benjamin Bratt

YOUNG INDIANA JONES: TRAVELS WITH FATHER - Laurence Rosenthal
3:09 on the 2-disc composer promo Laurence Rosenthal: Music For Television; 1996/1997 Emmy winner Outstanding Music Composition For A Miniseries Or A Special (Dramatic Underscore); Young Indy returns, with Michael Gough as Tolstoy and Evan Richards as Lowell Thomas

OUTSTANDING MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A MINISERIES OR A SPECIAL

David Bell - Larry McMurtry's Dead Man's Walk
David Michael Frank - Annie: A Royal Adventure!
Lee Holdridge - The Tuskegee Airmen
Ernest Troost - The Canterville Ghost
Christopher Young - Norma Jean And Marilyn

OUTSTANDING MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A SERIES

Jay Chattaway - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (Our Man Bashir)
Dick DeBenedictis - Diagnosis Murder (Mind Over Murder)
Russ Landau - SeaQuest 2032 (Brave New World)
Hummie Mann - Picture Windows (Language Of The Heart)
Shirley Walker - Space: Above And Beyond (The River Of Stars)

OUTSTANDING MAIN TITLE THEME MUSIC

Bruce Broughton - JAG
Mark Isham - Chicago Hope
Mike Post - Murder One
Mark Snow - Nowhere Man
Tim Truman - Central Park West

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