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Best known for her dramatic, often sentimental romance movie scores, Rachel Portman deviates 180 degrees off course with 1994's willfully absurd The Road to Wellville, an effort as eccentric, ambitious, and deeply flawed as the screen comedy it accompanies. Like director Alan Parker's narrative, set in the Battle Creek Sanitarium founded by health pioneer and breakfast cereal magnate John Harvey Kellogg, Portman's score is obsessed with the weaknesses and quirks of the human body. Flatulent tubas bloat at seemingly every turn, kazoos squawk like so much new age babble, and mechanical rhythms accelerate like hearts racing after hours in the gym. As one might expect, a little of this goes a long way, and Varèse Sarabande further compounds the problem by cutting and pasting dialogue from the film. Removed from their proper cinematic context, lines like "An erection is a flagpole on your grave" and "I was not masturbating...I was massaging my colon!" are even more awkward than they appear in print.
© Jason Ankeny /TiVo
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Rachel Portman, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - David Snell, Conductor, Artist
℗ 1994 Per-Fo Pictures Corp
Rachel Portman, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - David Snell, Conductor, Artist
℗ 1994 Per-Fo Pictures Corp
Rachel Portman, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - David Snell, Conductor, Artist
℗ 1994 Per-Fo Pictures Corp
Rachel Portman, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - David Snell, Conductor, Artist
℗ 1994 Per-Fo Pictures Corp
Rachel Portman, MainArtist - David Snell, Conductor, Artist - Jake Parker, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1994 Per-Fo Pictures Corp
Rachel Portman, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - David Snell, Conductor, Artist
℗ 1994 Per-Fo Pictures Corp
Felix Mendelssohn, ComposerLyricist - Rachel Portman, MainArtist - David Snell, Conductor, Artist - Pochon, Writer, Artist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1994 Per-Fo Pictures Corp
Rachel Portman, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - David Snell, Conductor, Artist
℗ 1994 Per-Fo Pictures Corp
Rachel Portman, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - David Snell, Conductor, Artist
℗ 1994 Per-Fo Pictures Corp
Rachel Portman, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - David Snell, Conductor, Artist
℗ 1994 Per-Fo Pictures Corp
Turner, Writer, Artist, AssociatedPerformer - Rachel Portman, MainArtist - David Snell, Conductor, Artist - Hayden/Metz, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1994 Per-Fo Pictures Corp
Rachel Portman, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - David Snell, Conductor, Artist
℗ 1994 Per-Fo Pictures Corp
Rachel Portman, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - David Snell, Conductor, Artist
℗ 1994 Per-Fo Pictures Corp
Rachel Portman, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - David Snell, Conductor, Artist
℗ 1994 Per-Fo Pictures Corp
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, ComposerLyricist - Rachel Portman, MainArtist - David Snell, Conductor, Artist - Efram, Writer, Artist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1994 Per-Fo Pictures Corp
Rachel Portman, MainArtist - David Snell, Conductor, Artist - Norbert Weisser, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Schubert/Muller, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1994 Per-Fo Pictures Corp
Rachel Portman, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - David Snell, Conductor, Artist
℗ 1994 Per-Fo Pictures Corp
Rachel Portman, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - David Snell, Conductor, Artist
℗ 1994 Per-Fo Pictures Corp
Rachel Portman, MainArtist - David Snell, Conductor, Artist - Jake Parker, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1994 Per-Fo Pictures Corp
Rachel Portman, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - David Snell, Conductor, Artist
℗ 1994 Per-Fo Pictures Corp
Rachel Portman, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - David Snell, Conductor, Artist
℗ 1994 Per-Fo Pictures Corp
Giuseppe Verdi, ComposerLyricist - Rachel Portman, MainArtist - David Snell, Conductor, Artist - JoAnne McNamara-Regan, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1994 Per-Fo Pictures Corp
Rachel Portman, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - David Snell, Conductor, Artist
℗ 1994 Per-Fo Pictures Corp
Rachel Portman, MainArtist - David Snell, Conductor, Artist - Jake Parker, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1994 Per-Fo Pictures Corp
Album review
Best known for her dramatic, often sentimental romance movie scores, Rachel Portman deviates 180 degrees off course with 1994's willfully absurd The Road to Wellville, an effort as eccentric, ambitious, and deeply flawed as the screen comedy it accompanies. Like director Alan Parker's narrative, set in the Battle Creek Sanitarium founded by health pioneer and breakfast cereal magnate John Harvey Kellogg, Portman's score is obsessed with the weaknesses and quirks of the human body. Flatulent tubas bloat at seemingly every turn, kazoos squawk like so much new age babble, and mechanical rhythms accelerate like hearts racing after hours in the gym. As one might expect, a little of this goes a long way, and Varèse Sarabande further compounds the problem by cutting and pasting dialogue from the film. Removed from their proper cinematic context, lines like "An erection is a flagpole on your grave" and "I was not masturbating...I was massaging my colon!" are even more awkward than they appear in print.
© Jason Ankeny /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 24 track(s)
- Total length: 00:31:22
- Main artists: Rachel Portman
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Varese Sarabande
- Genre: Soundtracks Film Soundtracks
© 1994 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. This Compilation ℗ 1994 Per-Fo Pictures Corp
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