1985

Film Score and Soundtrack Album

Programmed & Performed by

Anthony Marinelli & Brian Banks

Composer  Arthur B. Rubenstein

DIRECTOR  Roger Spottiswoode

PRODUCERS Gordon Carroll

Distributor Universal Pictures

Music Supervisor Linda Hart

ACTORS Robin Williams, Kurt Russell, Pamela Reed, Holly Palance, Donald Moffat

About the Score

Instrumentation  65 Piece Orchestra

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

Style  Classical/Jazz

Film Synopsis

Small-town banker Robin Williams has never been able to live down the fact that he dropped an important pass during a crucial high-school football game. Likewise tainted for life is the team's star quarterback Kurt Russell, now a garage owner. Fed up with living his life under a cloud, Williams hits upon a brilliant idea: he will stage a rematch-13 years after the fact - with the members of the rival team. Trouble beckons when Williams' father-in-law announces that he's rooting for the opposition. Williams is determined to win, and in pursuit of that goal he pushes his former teammates to hitherto untapped brilliance. Directed by Roger Spottiswood, The Best of Times was written by Ron Shelton, future writer/director of such delightful sports films as Bull Durham, White Men Can't Jump and Tin Cup; it was Shelton, in fact, who directed most of Best of Times' climactic football game.

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