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Freeheld
(2015)
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Composed and Performed by:
Hans Zimmer
Johnny Marr

Produced by:
Stephen Lipson
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WaterTower Music
(September 25th, 2015)
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Regular U.S. release but out of print as of 2022.
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Buy it... if you regularly zone out to Hans Zimmer's more atmospherically muted film scores, Freeheld rarely unpleasant but providing consistently stoic and subdued minimalism.

Avoid it... if you believe that this story has an abundance of heart, which it really does, as Zimmer and his team offer surprisingly passionless music for its characters.
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FILMTRACKS TRAFFIC RANK: #2,276
WRITTEN 9/28/22
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Freeheld: (Hans Zimmer/Johnny Marr) Sometimes documentaries are best left alone by Hollywood aspirations to dramatize every possible storyline, especially one that tickles its socio-political fancy. That lesson was keenly learned by the 2015 movie Freeheld, which sought to tell the fuller story of civil rights shown in the very highly acclaimed documentary short of the same name from 2007. That initial film told of a New Jersey police detective's fight to have her pension be payable to her same-sex partner in the mid-2000's after she learns that she has terminal cancer. Even though other jurisdictions in the state had already ruled that civil unions could be recognized for the extension of benefits at the time, Ocean County was slow to follow suit, its board of executives and commissioners standing by outmoded "sanctity of marriage" arguments during repeated attempts by the officer to have her pension transfer to her partner, who was an auto mechanic and unable to alone support payments on the home they shared. After pressure from the state governor, the county eventually relented, advocacy groups and press celebrating a bittersweet victory as the officer approached death. Fittingly, New Jersey formally legalized civil unions within a year after her passing. The 2015 dramatization of the documentary attracted a few major Hollywood names, though it landed with a dull thud, failing to earn much critical praise and bombing with audiences. One of the more intriguing names attached to the picture was composer Hans Zimmer, who has long supported liberal causes. Although running over 100 minutes in length, Freeheld only needed less than half an hour of score material in an otherwise muted environment. Zimmer, as per usual, enlisted associates at his Remote Control Productions studio to assist him in fleshing out the short score. In this case, he called upon English guitarist Johnny Marr, formerly of The Smiths; the two had notably collaborated on Inception and Marr had expanded his role with Zimmer by The Amazing Spider-Man 2, becoming a regular performer at the composer's concerts. After Freeheld, their work together continued on No Time to Die. Also contributing to most of the score's cues is Dominic Lewis, who provided cello performances, and one cue is aided by Satnam Singh Ramgotra, who lended the more stylish percussion performances. The impact of the score is minimal outside of a few more voluminous cues, the majority occupied with ambient tones that range from stoically melodic to merely atmospheric.


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Total Time: 27:37
• 1. On the Case (4:39)
• 2. Can I Have Your Number? (2:19)
• 3. House Hunting (3:10)
• 4. Can't Leave Her (7:18)
• 5. The Decision (3:07)
• 6. Justice (2:36)
• 7. Remembering (4:28)

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