Soundtrack
Jack Manfred 4:39
Childhood
Cue Titlles to Vince Guaraldi - "Linus and Lucy."
Tracking Dolly Shot of YOUNG BOY in uniform walking up stairs to grade school to Pink Floyd - "The Wall."
TEN YEAR OLD BOY opens portable tape recorder and listens to Billy Joel - "All For Leyna" over and over again.
Puberty
Dawn. Close up of L.E.D. display on clock radio. Clock radio lights up. The Pretenders - "Brass in Pocket" plays. Chrissie Hynde sings, "Gonna use my arms, gonna use my legs / Gonna use my style, gonna use my sidestep / Gonna use my fingers, gonna use my, my, my imagination." Puberty begins.
The Police - "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic"
BARELY TEENAGE BOY walks across room to turn on television set. Changes channel to MTV. Video plays for Van Halen - "Hot For Teacher." Teenage boy sprwals in front of television set transfixed.
High School
Tracking Dolly Shot of dance in quad of high school while The B-52's - "Rock Lobster" plays.
Close up of tan bare thigh. Legs cross. Camera pans up leg and out to short, plaid, pleated skirt worn by ICY BLONDE TEENAGE GIRL. Cue Cutting Crew - "(I Just) Died in Your Arms."
Tracking Shot of high school parking lot reveals red and white Volkswagen Cabriolets, Catholic schoolgirls. Cue INXS - "Need You Tonight."
U2 - "With or Without You"
Crowded House - "Into Temptation"
College
De La Soul - "Jenifa Taught Me (Derwin's Revenge)"
Trash Can Sinatras - "Obscurity Knocks"
Close up of COLLEGE STUDENT watching MTV to first two notes of Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Camera pulls out to roomful of college students on couches watching MTV to next bar of song. Camera quickly cuts to several dorm buildings and fraternity houses in sync. Camera then cuts to long shots of several colleges in sync with drum intro. Camera then cuts to overhead shots of suburbarn subdivisions. Grunge breaks.
Material Issue - "Valerie Loves Me"
Counting Crows - "Rain King"
Sting - "Mad About You"
Afghan Whigs - "Gentleman"
Love
Cowboy Junkies - "Come Calling (His Song)"
Massive Attack - "Protection"
Cassandra Wilson - "Love Is Blindness"
Jeff Buckley - "Grace"
Loss
Chris Isaak - Forever Blue over and over and over again until...
Law School
Tracking Dolly Shot of YOUNG MAN walking up stairs to law school to opening flourish of Eric Matthews - "Fanfare."
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Supergrass - "In It For The Money"
Lawyer
Pedro The Lion - "Penetration"
The Godfathers - "Birth, School, Work, Death"
Old Age
The Rolling Stones - "Gimme Shelter"
Death
Jeff Buckley - "Hallelujah"
Christopher O'Riley - "Exit Music (For a Film)"
Or...for the Disney ending, skip Old Age and Death and cue The Sundays - "Here's Where the Story Ends"
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