In time for Friday’s debut at the big screen, the sixteen-track Lady in the Water Soundtrack from composer James Newton Howard is now available for the suggested retail price of $18.98.
The soundtrack marks the fifth collaboration between director M. Night Shyamalan and Newton – who received an Oscar nomination for his score for The Village.
Shyamalan’s film follows Cleveland Heep (Paul Giamatti) who has been quietly trying to disappear among the burned-out lightbulbs and broken appliances of the Cove apartment complex. But on the night that irrevocably changes his life, Cleveland finds someone else hiding in the mundane routine of the modest building – a mysterious young woman named Story (Bryce Dallas Howard), who has been living in the passageways beneath the building's swimming pool.
Cleveland discovers that Story is actually a "narf" – a nymph-like character from an epic bedtime story who is being stalked by vicious creatures determined to prevent her from making the treacherous journey from our world back to hers. Story's unique powers of perception reveal the fates of Cleveland's fellow tenants, whose destinies are tied directly to her own, and they must work together to decipher a series of codes that will unlock the pathway to her freedom.
But the window of opportunity for Story to return home is closing rapidly, and the tenants are putting their own lives at great risk to help her. Cleveland will have to face the demons that have followed him to the Cove – and the other tenants must seize the special powers that Story has brought out in them – if they hope to succeed in their daring and dangerous quest to save her world...and ours.
For Lady in the Water, the composer sets out to match the supernatural tone of the movie with a sizable orchestra and subtle touches to the score.
The soundtrack also features four Bob Dylan covers at the end including a darker take on Dylan’s classic “The Times They Are A-Changin’” by Whisper in the Noise and Silvertide’s new versions of “It Ain’t Me Babe” and “Maggie’s Farm.”
Lady in the Water Soundtrack is now available at Amazon . Visit the soundtrack database for more information and a complete track listing. Visit the movie database for more information on the film.
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