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Films - Sarah singing on film and / or soundtrack

Frances 1981     Ronin - 1998   Jesus 1999   O Clone 2001

Brokedown Palace 1999    Zeit der Erkenntnis 2000     Blades of Glory 2007    10th Pokeman Movie theme 2007

 

Frances 1981   Sarah records Close Your Eyes with John Barry accompanying her on piano.  It was recorded as the theme for the film Frances starring Jessica Lange. This song has never been released officially, and was recorded as a demo.     Click on album cover to listen to the instrumental version from:- www.moviegrooves.com/shop/francessoundtrackjohnbarry.htm   Storyline from Amazon.com Jessica Lange delivers the performance of her career as Frances Farmer, the notorious 1930's movie star whose impassioned opinions and outspoken behaviour created scandal throughout the industry. But when she was betrayed by the studio system and committed to an insane asylum by her domineering mother, Frances descended into a madness that revealed the most horrific abuses of mental illness and exposed the cruellest consequences of Hollywood fame. Kim Stanley and San Shephard co-star in this tragic true story that shocked the world. Frances is now presented in a stunning new transfer from original film materials and is packed with startling new bonus features exclusive to this edition.

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Ronin 1998   Sarah sings Time To Say Goodbye on the soundtrack   Ronin is the Japanese word used for Samurai without a master. In this case, the Ronin are outcast specialists of every kind, whose services are available to everyone - for money. Deirdre (undoubtedly from Ireland) hires several Ronin to form a team in order to retrieve an important suitcase from a man who is about to sell it to the Russians. After the mission has been completed successfully, the suitcase immediately gets switched by a member of the team who seems to work into his own pocket. The complex net of everyone tricking everyone begins to surface slowly, and deadly... Written by Julian Reischl {julianreischl@mac.com}  from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122690/plotsummary

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Jesus 1999   Sarah sings Pie Jesu on the soundtrack   Jesus (1999) is a made-for-television Biblical film that retells the story of Jesus of Nazareth.   It stars Jeremy Sisto as Jesus, Jacqueline Bisset as Mary of Nazareth, Debra Messing as Mary Magdalene and Gary Oldman as Pontius Pilate.   The film is notable for presenting a more human Jesus, compared to more solemn portrayals in earlier films; here Jesus laughs and cries much like anyone else. Among other things, he weeps at Joseph's funeral, throws stones in Lake Galilee when meeting Simon Peter and James son of Zebedee for the first time, dances at the wedding at Cana, and starts a water-splashing fight with his disciples at a well.   Also, Satan is portrayed as a man in modern dress (and as a woman in red, but the former guise is more prominent).   The film adds a Roman historian named "Livio" who watches as events unfold; he is presumably based on Livy.   Music From & Inspired by "Jesus:" The Epic Mini-Series.Compilation producers: Bill Hearn, Eddie DeGarmo, Evan Lamberg, Mike Curb. Includes liner notes by Douglas Kaine McKelvey.  You've never heard the Good News delivered quite like this before. As the title suggests, this soundtrack to the JESUS TV-Movie does not confine itself strictly to the songs included in the movie itself. Consequently, the producers of the album were free to go a bit further afield in their song selections. While Patrick Williams' opening theme seems appropriately full of pomp and circumstance, the bulk of this disc is populated by a distinctly more secular, contemporary aesthetic. The spirituality inherent in Earth, Wind & Fire's classic "Shining Star" is brought to the fore in Yolanda Adams' version, while Christian rockers DC Talk similarly recontextualize Norman Greenbaum's hippie chestnut "Spirit in the Sky." Ironically, secular pop-rock stars Hootie & the Blowfish contribute one of the most gospel-influenced cuts, "City on a River." Things close on a transcendent note with Sarah Brightman's angelic delivery of "Pie Jesu." from ebay.co.uk

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O Clone 2001   Sarah sings Dans La Nuit on the soundtrack   The meeting of a man with his image 20 years younger. This is the plot of O Clone. In the beggining of the story Lucas is a happy adolescent, romantic, full of projects, and he's in love with a young arabic girl: Jade. But life didn't run well for him: he separates with Jade and, during the twenty years that have passed during the novel, he's not the same thing physically, his projects are lost by the way, he has no more the tenderness, the romantic atmosphere, and the poetry of before. He's now dry by inside. Jade, in the other side, lived all this time imagining that her life would be much happier if she had married him. Twenty years later they meet again. Jade gets upset, trying to find, in the forty years old Lucas, what is left from the person she once fell in love with. That's when the clone appears, made by Lucas' godfather without his knowledge, the geneticist Albieri. The clone is not Lucas, but it is the image that Jade loved during her whole life. We have then, an uncommon love triangle: Lucas becoming the rival of himself. The appearing of the clone changes completely the lifes of the other characters of the plot. Written by Glória Perez

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Brokedown Palace 1999   Sarah sings Deliver Me from her album eden on this film sound track.   Storyline from http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0120620/plotsummary   Alice and Darlene, friends since birth, have just finished high school. They are planning a summer vacation in Hawaii, but they hear Bangkok is even better. They leave... without telling their parents about the change in plans. Bangkok's fun, but they're not crazy about their $6 accommodation. They try for a swim at a luxury hotel, but then there's some trouble when it's time to pay for their drinks. They're rescued by a roving software consultant, Nick Parks, an Australian. Nick's a good guy, although he can't decide which girl he's after. He tells the pair that Hong Kong is great, and he's willing to exchange his first class plane ticket for three economy... The girls rush to catch their flight out. At the airport police arrive suddenly. The girls have heroin in their backpack... Darlene's father has no luck freeing the girls from prison, even when he looks for help from the local DEA agents. But there's a sleazy lawyer, Hank Green, who may be able to do something, for a price... Written by David Woodfield

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Zeit der Erkenntnis 2000   Sarah sings So Many Things from eden and Scarborough Fair from La Luna   Storyline from:-  http://www.zdf-enterprises.de/en/rosamunde_pilcher_collection_time_of_perception.59.htm   This Rosamunde Pilcher movie offers a very special attraction: Guest starring is the English singer Sarah Brightman who became popular with her song "Time to say goodbye". Having been a fan of Rosamunde Pilcher for many years (and the feeling is mutual by the way!), Sarah Brightman, who lives in the south of England, plays herself in this film. Highlight of this role is a singing performance in the amphitheatre "The Minack Theatre" directly above the sea on the cliffs near Land's End where Cornwall is most beautiful.   After a long time and with mixed feelings, the siblings Jenny, Simon and Patrick Mansley travel to their father's grand estate "Queenswood" in Cornwall. The veterinarian has died and Heather Paddington, his housekeeper and employee at the vet surgery, will read the will. The grown-up children didn't have a good relationship with their father in recent years. Especially Jenny who with her husband James, a lawyer, and their son Phil who lives in London as a fashion designer hold her father and Heather responsible for the suicide of her mother. Back then she observed the couple in a passionate embrace. Ever since then the children believed Heather and their father were having a relationship and their mother ended her life because of it.   Now that the father has died as well, she wants to sell the estate and break with the past. Simon, the oldest of the siblings, works as a top manager for a large concern in London. Out on a walk by the sea he meets a young woman, Kathlin Grey, and rescues her from the sea after a boating accident. It's a fateful encounter with consequences. When Simon falls in love at first sight of this woman, he doesn't know that Kathlin is the girlfriend of his younger brother Patrick. Kathlin is also immediately taken with the charming Simon. At their next encounter, the entire Mansley clan is present. Simon who believes to have found his dream woman is shocked when Patrick introduces Kathlin to him as his future wife.  Patrick, a dreamy musician and composer, is neither thinking about Kathlin nor the inheritance. He's busy preparing a composition for Sarah Brightman in order to apply as a composer with her. During the reading of the will, the situation is worsening: The last will determines that the estate may not be sold. Queenswood shall once again become a place of family and the siblings must come to an agreement as to which one of them should take over Queenswood. Should they be unable to come to an agreement, the entire property will fall to the church. Simon, Jenny and Patrick are horrified: An agreement seems impossible...

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Blades of Glory 2007   Sarah and Andrea Bocelli sing Time To Say Goodbye as the theme song for this movie.  Sadly this song is NOT on the soundtrack - where are they going wrong ???     Plot taken from: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445934/   In 2002, two rival Olympic ice skaters were stripped of their gold medals and permanently banned from men's single competition. Presently, however, they've found a loophole that will allow them to qualify as a pairs team.

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