1987

Film Score and Soundtrack Album

Orchestrations, Programmed & Performed by

Anthony Marinelli

DIRECTOR  John Badham

PRODUCERS Jim Kouf, Cathleen Summers

Distributor Buena Vista Pictures

ACTORS  Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Madeleine Stowe, Aidan Quinn, Dan Lauria, Forest Whitaker

About the Score

Instrumentation  65 Piece Orchestra

Soloists  Harp, Piano, Exotic Flutes, Female Vocalist, Child Vocalist, Tabla

Style  Classical/Jazz

Film Synopsis

Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez play a pair of Seattle detectives, assigned to capture escaped hood Aidan Quinn. The twosome spends much of the film on stakeout in a lonely, deserted house; the object of their scrutiny is Madeline Stowe, Quinn's former girlfriend. Pretending to be a telephone repairman, Dreyfuss plants a bug in Stowe's apartment - thereby inaugurating a romance that compromises the detective's objectivity. In the climax, Quinn gets the upper hand - at least until the fists start flying. Perfect as it stood, Stakeout didn't need to be elaborated upon with a sequel, but Another Stakeout was produced all the same.

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