2001

Film Score and Original Song

Music & Original Song by

Anthony Marinelli

DIRECTOR  Ernest Thompson

PRODUCERS  Samuel Paul

Network  CBS Television

MUSIC SUPERVISOR  Linda Cohen

ACTORS Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Glenne Headly, Sam Robards, Brett Cullen

About the Score

Instrumentation  9 Piece Ensemble

Soloists  Timpani, Violin, Contra Bass, 2 French Horns, Trumpet, Acoustic Guitar, Shakuhachi Flute, Mallets, Tambourine, Hand Percussion

Style  Americana/Drama

Song  “Camp Kitchikia”

Music & Lyrics by Anthony Marinelli

Sung by Julie Andrews

Film Synopsis

Ethel and Norman Thayer, played by Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, are an old couple living "On Golden Pond". Their daughter, Chelsea, played by Glenne Headly, is 42 years old, and has never been married. She is dating a 45 year old dentist, and brings him up to Golden Pond to meet her parents. Her boyfriend, Bill, has a 14 year old son named Billy, who comes along. Young Billy has been virtually raised by his mother, who is newly divorced from his father. The troubled child is left with the elderly Thayers for some time, as his father and Chelsea take off for a tour of Europe. "On Golden Pond" is a wonderful character-driven story about an elderly man coming to terms with his age, and the nearing of death; a middle-aged woman attempting to enter into a father-daughter relationship with her dad, whom she has never known closely; and a young teenager dealing with parental divorce. It's a story of a true-to-life family really getting to know one another.

Reviews/Press