![]() ![]() The best music on album actually comes towards the end, beginning with the extended “Pauly’s Theme”, which features a subtly romantic piano melody accompanied by emotional strings and woodwinds. Many of the cues are short and to the point, rarely allowing for any conventional thematic development or extended statements, but there are a couple of interesting cues: “Kaiko Shoots Arrow” is an oriental theme played for laughs “Jenny and Connor Meet and Spar” and “Jenny and Connor/Wedding Sex” are Thomas Newman-style urban pieces with guitars and offbeat percussion “Uncle Wayne’s Apparition” has a comedic jazzy feel with unusual use of a theremin “Ghost of Girlfriend Past” and “Ghost of Girlfriend Present” dips their toes into action music territory with low brass chords playing off the mischievous theremin motif “Leaving Before Dawn” has a pretty, bittersweet piano and woodwind theme “A Little Honesty” emerges from a quirky plucked electric guitar sequence into something a little more orchestrally meaningful, and so on and so forth. He uses a moderately-sized orchestra, a jazz percussion section, light guitars and synths, marimbas and other offbeat chimes, and a generally contemporary vibe to score this modern tale of love and redemption. Kent’s score is pleasant, light and airy, with a gentle romantic sweep that recalls the work of composers such as Alan Silvestri and David Newman, and their work in this genre. ![]() The film is directed by Mark Waters, co-stars Jennifer Garner, Breckin Meyer, Robert Forster and Anne Archer, and has an original score by Scottish-born composer Rolfe Kent. In life, Wayne was a player like Connor, but in death has seen the error of his ways now, in attempt to save his younger nephew’s nuptials, Wayne tells Connor that he will be visited by the “ghosts” of girlfriends past, present, and future, who will show him that true love, rather than casual sex, is the way to go. A fun rom-com reworking of the classic Scrooge tale, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past stars Matthew McConaughey as Connor Mead, a love ‘em and leave ‘em serial monogamist who, while attempting to stop his younger brother’s wedding, is visited by the ghost of his dead uncle Wayne (Michael Douglas). ![]()
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