Score
Explosions in the Sky wrote the 2004 film’s music with David Torn: instrumental, structureless by pop standards, and the film’s main emotional instrument.
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8 Oct 2004Theatrical release, Universal Pictures
$61mDomestic gross (Box Office Mojo)
2Production centres: Odessa and Houston
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