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THE LUCKY ONES
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THE LUCKY ONES
SYNOPSIS
When three very different U.S. soldiers find themselves on an unplanned road trip across
America, they form a deep bond that may be the closest thing any of them has to real family. A
humorous and timely drama about coming home, The Lucky Ones stars Rachel McAdams (The
Notebook, Wedding Crashers), Tim Robbins (Mystic River, The Shawshank Redemption) and
Michael Peña (Crash, World Trade Center), and is directed by Neil Burger (The Illusionist) from
a screenplay by Burger and Dirk Wittenborn.
T.K. Poole (Michael Peña), Colee Dunn (Rachel McAdams) and Fred Cheever (Tim
Robbins) arrive in New York from Germany only to find their connecting flights canceled due to
a power outage. Anxious to get to their respective destinations, they agree to share a rented
minivan to suburban St. Louis where Cheever is to reunite with his wife and teenage son. From
there, the other two plan to fly to Las Vegas where the macho T.K. wants to make an important
stop before seeing his fiancée and the tough yet naïve Colee plans to pay a visit to a fallen
fellow-soldier’s family.
But when Cheever’s homecoming turns out to be a far cry from what he anticipated, the
trio’s one-day drive expands into an impromptu cross-country marathon. Along the way, they
experience a string of surprising adventures ranging from the hilarious to the heartbreaking. As
their interstate journey takes them from a barroom brawl to a high society dance to a bizarre
Sunday morning church service, T.K., Colee and Cheever discover that home is not quite what
they remembered and the unlikely companionship they’ve found in one another might be what
matters most of all.
The Lucky Ones is a Lionsgate Film and QED International presentation of a Koppelman
& Levien Production and Overnight Production starring Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins and
Michael Peña. Neil Burger directed the film from a screenplay he wrote with Dirk Wittenborn.
The producers are Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Rick Schwartz and Burger, and the
executive producers are Bill Block, Paul Hanson, Elliot Ferwerda, Brian McCormack, Marina
Grasic and Jan Korbelin. The Lucky Ones is rated R for language and some sexual content.
ABOUT THE FILM
“The Lucky Ones is a road movie, and like all classic road movies, it’s an epic emotional
journey,” director Neil Burger says. “The three characters have been out of the country for some
time and want nothing more than to get home and reconnect with family. But life is never that
simple.”
The essential fact, of course, is that the three characters are soldiers returning from tours
of duty - TK is an experienced Army sergeant, Colee a young private, and Cheaver an older
reservist. Says Burger, “I thought what better way to look at the country than through the eyes of
people who’ve been away serving their country. They’re just trying to be normal, have a good
time, find love. It’s funny and heartbreaking.”
“The movie I looked at the most when writing The Lucky Ones,” says Burger, “Was a
great Jack Nicholson movie called The Last Detail directed by Hal Ashby. It’s a very different
story but it has a similar tone of humor and heartbreak. You get a real sense of what life was like
in 1973 America and I wanted to do the same thing with The Lucky Ones – to have it be a real
snapshot of today.
“While I was editing my last movie, The Illusionist, I began writing notes for a story on
soldiers coming home,” says Burger. “To me, the war was less the issue than the question of
America now. Where are we as a people at this point in time? I wanted to somehow take the
temperature of the country during this highly charged political moment.” Burger and co-writer
Dirk Wittenborn (Pharmakon, Fierce People) had been looking for a story to collaborate on for
years. “I told him what I was working on and he quickly joined me on the project. I had written
my last two movies alone but I was lucky to have Dirk on this rambling and far-reaching story.”
They started with a rough concept of people coming back to the States on convalescent leave.
Wittenborn knew a doctor at Balad Air Force base and that was the beginning of their research.
After contacting soldiers that had been over there, they began methodically fleshing out the
premise of a cross-country trip and the trajectory of the three characters’ lives as they become
reacquainted with America.
“In some ways we wanted to write a love letter to America,” Wittenborn says, “but a
clear-eyed love letter that included our concerns about these people, one that didn’t shy away
from the realities.”
The Lucky Ones is a road trip movie in the proud tradition of The Last Detail, Little Miss
Sunshine, Sideways and many other motion pictures, but it approaches the genre in its own
unique way, according to producer David Levien. “It’s got the staples of any road film -- the
travel and the elements that don’t go smoothly -- but it hits those moments in ways that you don’t
see coming,” says Levien, who with his partner, Brian Koppelman, produced Neil Burger’s first
two films, Interview With the Assassin and The Illusionist.
“The thing about this movie that struck us from the beginning was its fresh and original
tone in the way it handles serious topics,” adds Koppelman. “Some movies about returning
soldiers have been politically laden, but this movie plays against all those expectations. It’s such
an audience-pleasing ride.”
With screenplay in hand, Burger and Wittenborn approached Bill Block and Paul Hanson
and won the backing of their company, QED International, which fully financed the film and is
distributing it internationally. "I was drawn to this story from the moment I read it,” says Block,
QED’s founder and chief executive officer and one of the film’s executive producers. “In a time
where the majority of perspectives on the war are dark and fail to address the positive side of the
human spirit, Neil has created a film that translates national optimism and the sense of
togetherness.” Hanson, chief operating officer of QED International and executive producer of
the film, says: “QED wants to make films that are very high quality and have a unique take on
their material. Working with great filmmakers is another priority for us, and Neil Burger fits that
description in spades.”
“The Lucky Ones couldn’t be more different than my last film The Illusionist,” says
Burger. “But in a way they’re connected. They both deal with issues of truth: in the earlier film,
truth versus illusion and faith; in the The Lucky Ones, truth versus self-delusion and outright
lies.” The humor is a departure too - the movie walks a very fine line between comedy and
drama. “In this story, you can’t have one without the other,” says Burger. “But the humor is
key, it’s like a Trojan horse - it makes you let down your guard and let the characters into your
heart.”
ABOUT THE CHARACTERS
Each character in the movie is somehow representative of America. In the case of Colee
Dunn, played by Rachel McAdams, she’s the heart of America, optimistic and maybe a bit naïve
about the world. She’s a fighter, a tough-talking but somewhat lost young woman with an
unhappy family life, who fantasizes about living with her dead boyfriend’s parents in Las Vegas.
“I liked the ambiguity of the script,” McAdams says when asked what attracted her to this
project. “I liked that sometimes I wasn’t sure whether I should laugh or not.”
“Colee’s got all her eggs in one basket,” McAdams continues. “She’s hoping this family
who’s never met her will take her in, so she’s really living in a fantasy world. She’s seeking out
fellowship and brotherhood, and I think that’s what she loves about the military. She really
doesn’t have anyone, but she finds TK and Cheever and discovers a lot more about herself in
losing her fantasy.”
The three soldiers are on an emotional roller coaster, McAdams says. “When you come
back from such an intense experience as war, you’re not quite sure where you fit in anymore.
You don’t know how to describe your experience to people, and you feel really lonely, yet
you’re seeking out connections. You try to reintegrate into what used to be your home, and it’s a
really odd place to be.”
Tim Robbins plays Fred Cheaver, an older member of the Army reserve who’s been
called up to duty and taken away from his wife and son. He’s the guy getting the shaft, the
forgotten American, and he wants nothing more than to get back home to see his family.
“I’m in my 40s, Michael Peña’s character is a hotshot and Rachel McAdam’s character is
bright, optimistic and very religious,” Robbins says. “There’s no reason we should be in the
same car -- we’re not alike -- but that’s where I think the humor comes in.”
Robbins was attracted to the project by the spirit of the three soldiers who, “in the worst
situations try to find a way to get their heads above water. We didn’t want to do a maudlin,
depressing story of three returning Iraq veterans. We wanted to find their humanity; we wanted
to find their sense of humor. We wanted to show that they are survivors who find the way to
recapture the joy in their life.”
Cheever’s own survival instincts must come into play when he discovers that his wife
wants a divorce and that his civilian job may not be waiting for him. “I have to figure out first of
all how I’m going to keep going forward and also how I’m going to pay for my kid’s college
education,” Robbins says.
Michael Peña plays Sgt. TK Poole, a cocky natural-born leader. He’s the go-it-alone
America, the cowboy, the know-it-all. Now he’s been wounded in his private parts and is afraid
he won’t be able to perform when he visits his fiancée.
“It’s a devastating blow,” Peña says, “because he’s a pretty self-assured kind of guy. So
when he gets home he has a plan to go to Las Vegas to get a real pro to make it work before he
sees his fiancée. But while traveling with Colee and Cheever across the country, he
realizes a couple things about himself. He’s got this façade of being the macho guy, because
that’s all he grew up with, but along the way Colee and Cheever help him to become the person
that he is underneath his war face.”
Throughout their journey, an unspoken presence haunts TK, Cheever and Colee -- the
war -- which the three characters never really talk about, although at least two of them will
be returning to it after their leave. “The war’s a character in the movie,” Robbins says. “There’s
no denying that it’s always underneath, so when the three are talking about all these other things,
there is a certain subtext that’s never spoken. They keep it suppressed, but it informs everything
else.”
Summing up the relationship that develops among TK, Cheever and Colee during their
eventful road trip, Wittenborn says: “There’s a kindness and a sort of spiritual romance that
takes place between the three of them. They really heal each other. Maybe they don’t find what
they thought they were looking for in America, but they certainly find something in one
another that they didn’t have before this journey began.”
ABOUT THE PRODUCTION
Even though there aren’t battlefield scenes in the movie, each actor wanted to be
prepared for his or her role, to have a real sense of the life of the soldier, so that even in civilian
clothes back home in America, they could be true to the spirit of their characters. In Peña’s case,
he had already received his military training for the film he had just completed, Lions for Lambs,
in which he played a soldier in Afghanistan.
McAdams, who wanted to understand the mindset of a soldier who had just come back
from Iraq, trained for two weeks at Fort Campbell, Tennessee. She was placed in a military
police unit that had been deployed in Iraq and was preparing to return to that country. For the
first week of her training, no one in her unit, other than her commander, her platoon leader and
her platoon sergeant, knew that she was the actress Rachel McAdams.
“She can take a punch,” says Army Maj. Todd Breasseale, who served as the film’s
military consultant, “and she can do physical fitness training with the best of them. She’s an
expert marksman now. The assault course -- she nailed it. I think you’re going to see her
training in this picture. She brings a nuanced quality to this picture that you’re not going see
from someone who has not at least attempted to walk in the shoes of a soldier who’s done the
real work.”
Tim Robbins plays a reservist who is leaving the armed forces and so he made contact
with a reserve unit in New Jersey and with soldiers in New York. He went
through pre-deployment training, talked with the family members of deployed soldiers, and
researched the unique challenges that members of the U.S. Army Reserve and National Guard
face.
But that wasn’t his only exposure to the military experience. During evenings when
filming had finished for the day, he was often approached by veterans, some of them deeply
distressed, who wanted to share with him war experiences that they kept even from their own
families. Robbins says: “I felt it was an honor and a kind of responsibility to listen to them. But
it was emotionally exhausting. It was a profound experience to tell the story in the daytime and
hear the real stories at night.”
ON THE ROAD
Filming began in May 2007 and lasted for eight weeks. During that time, the cast and
crew formed a close bond as they traveled to locations in Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania,
Missouri, Colorado, and finally to Las Vegas. “We were like a traveling circus,” says director
Neil Burger.
About a quarter of the film takes place in the minivan. Screenwriter Wittenborn recalls
that at the beginning someone said: “‘You guys are going to write a movie that all takes place in
a van? What are you, insane?’ But I was very confident, having seen Neil’s other two movies,
The Illusionist and Interview With the Assassin. They were so visually clever; he shot them in
such an interesting way.”
“I wanted to really take the trip that the characters do, to actually see them in the places
where the story happens,” says Burger. “So when you see them crossing the Mississippi River
into St. Louis, that’s really them in the car. There had been talk in pre-production of shooting on
stage, or even in Canada, but I felt it was important to be as authentic as possible, to be true to
the experience – especially in a movie that deals with issues of truth and lies. So we took about
100 crew and actors on a road trip across the country. It was crazy.”
“It’s challenging shooting in a car,” continues Burger. “I wanted a loose feel to the
camera work, a caught-on-the-run kind of feel. I wanted it to seem real and I wanted the actors
to drive when possible. And because the characters would be driving on highways, that’s where
we shot. But it’s a risky proposition. Besides all the logistical difficulties of shooting on a
highway – permissions and state police – how do you have an actor acting, laughing, screaming,
whatever, and also driving safely at 60 mph?” For high speeds the production developed its
own special minivan, customized so it could be controlled by a professional driver mounted in a
roll cage attached to the roof. The bizarre looking, top-heavy vehicle reached speeds of 65 miles
per hour with the driver, firmly strapped in and helmeted, steering the minivan from on high.
Says Burger, “It was great because we could avoid unwieldy trailers and towing, and the minivan
would still handle like a real car. The guy could parallel park the thing from the roof.”
Another challenge of shooting inside the minivan -- beyond keeping it fresh visually –
was where to put all the actors and crew.
“We were trying not to restrict the angles,” Burger says, “so everything else had to be
hidden, including me. It’s a tiny space, and you’ve got three actors in there, a camera operator
and an assistant cameraman, so there were very few places left to sit. As a
result I was often stuck lying down in this tiny little well in the back of the minivan, the only
place where I couldn’t be seen, with a monitor and operating the sound myself.”
They were shooting in the height of summer, sometimes in the desert. Temperatures
often topped 100 degrees, but they had to drive with the air
conditioner off because its noise interfered with the sound recording. Peña says:
“The temperature’s like through-the-roof hot, but Burger’s in the back with his little monitor and
saying, ‘Good, yeah, that’s good. Now, Rachel, say it slower. Good, good.’ And then instead of
saying ‘cut,’ he’d say, ‘A.C. on.’”
The camaraderie among the actors and crew was real and strengthened by their shared
experiences of filming on the road far from their homes and star trailers. They stayed in the
same hotels and motels, ate together and spent more time with each other than would have been
the case if this had been a movie filmed in studios. At one point a major tornado warning shut
down filming at a Chicago-area church. Hundreds of extras were standing around with nothing
to do when the actors began an impromptu musical session. “Everybody was getting tired,” Peña
says, “and we just wanted to jam out, so I started playing the drums and Tim hopped on with the
guitar and people started singing along. It was really really cool.”
Adding to the close-knit nature of the production, according to producer Rick Schwartz,
was the decision early on that there would be no personal assistants for the actors or the
filmmakers. “On some films if you want to deal with an actor on something you go through his
people, but this was as close to a real road trip as possible, and the decision paid off in the
chemistry with all three actors and the crew. We all really felt like we were in this together.”
“There are always issues inherent in going to location everyday,” Schwartz adds, “finding
those locations and dealing with different rules and sometimes different crews in different states.
I hadn’t encounter these obstacles in other movies where you go to a studio and sit for four
months, but it paid off, and I would do it this way again in a heartbeat.”
“What was unique about this production,” says Burger, “is how the three actors spent
almost every scene and every shooting moment together in that van. Like the characters in the
story, they began as three strangers but over the course of their time together, they forged a real
friendship, a real connection with each other.”
ABOUT THE CAST
RACHEL McADAMS (Colee) captured the attention of Hollywood when she landed the
starring role in the major studio comedy The Hot Chick (2002). Following The Hot Chick, the
Canadian actress landed the female lead opposite Ryan Gosling in The Notebook, directed by
Nick Cassavettes. After The Notebook, McAdams starred opposite Lindsay Lohan in Mean
Girls, written by Saturday Night Live’s Tina Fey and produced by Lorne Michaels.
In the summer of 2005, McAdams was seen in The Wedding Crashers, starring opposite
Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn and Christopher Walken. The film has made more than $200
million at the domestic box office.
She also starred in the thriller Red Eye, directed by Wes Craven and co-starring Cillian
Murphy, followed by the holiday drama The Family Stone, with Diane Keaton, Sarah Jessica
Parker and Claire Danes.
Soon to be released is the independent film Married Life, in which she stars opposite
Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper and Patricia Clarkson. A story about marriage and murder in the
1940s, the film was directed by Ira Sachs and recently premiered at the Toronto Film Festival.
Another upcoming film is The Time Traveler’s Wife, opposite Eric Bana. The romance is
based on the popular novel about a Chicago librarian with a gene that causes him to involuntarily
time travel and the complications this creates for his marriage and life.
Recently McAdams began filming Universal’s State of Play, starring Russell Crowe, Ben
Affleck and Helen Mirren with Kevin McDonald directing.
In 2005, McAdams received ShoWest’s award for supporting actress of the year as well
as the Hollywood Film Award as breakthrough actress of the year.
TIM ROBBINS (Cheever) Born October 16, 1958 in West Covina, California and raised in New
York City's Greenwich Village, Tim Robbins has a long list of notable credits as an actor,
director, writer and producer of films and theater.
Key acting roles are in such films as Clint Eastwood’s Mystic River, Isabel Croixet's The
Secret Life of Words, Philip Noyce's Catch a Fire, Robert Altman’s The Player and Short Cuts,
Frank Darabont’s The Shawshank Redemption, The Coen Brothers’ The Hudsucker Proxy,
Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds, Mark Pellington's Arlington Road, Michael
Winterbottom’s Code 46, Michel Gondry’s Human Nature, Tony Bill's Five Corners, Adrian
Lyne’s Jacob’s Ladder and Ron Shelton’s Bull Durham.
Robbins has won numerous awards for his acting including an Oscar, Golden Globe and
Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor for Mystic River, Best Actor Award at the
Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Globe for Best Actor for The Player. He was nominated by
the Golden Globes for Best Actor for Bob Roberts and by the Screen Actors Guild for Best Actor
for The Shawshank Redemption.
As a director, Robbins distinguished himself with Cradle Will Rock, which he also wrote
and produced, winning Best Film and Best Director at the Sitges Film Festival in Barcelona and
the National Board of Review Award for Special Achievement in Filmmaking in the United
States.
Dead Man Walking, which he also wrote and produced, won multiple awards including
the Academy Award for Best Actress for Susan Sarandon, the Christopher Award, the
Humanitas Award and four awards at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as an 4 Oscar nominations
including Best Director and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Screenplay.
His first film, Bob Roberts, won the Bronze Award at the Tokyo International Festival and Best
Film, Best Director and Best Actor at the Boston Film Festival.
Robbins also serves as Artistic Director for the Actors’ Gang, a theater company formed
in 1982 that has over 80 productions and more than 100 awards to their credit. As a playwright
he has been produced in London, Paris, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and at the Edinburgh
Festival in Scotland. His latest play, Embedded, played to sold out audiences for over four
months at the Public Theater in New York before playing the Riverside Studios in London and
embarking on a National Tour in the U.S.
Most recently he directed the Actors Gang in their shockingly relevant and wildly
successful adaptation of George Orwell's 1984 which for the past two years has toured to over 40
states and to four continents.
From 2006 until the present, Le Petit Theatre de Pain's production of Embedded has been
touring France, most recently playing at the Theatre du Soleil in Paris. In the US, Embedded was
revived recently in productions in Chicago and Tampa Bay.
In addition, Robbins stage adaptation of Dead Man Walking has been performed in over
140 universities nationwide. Rights to perform the play are exclusive to educational institutions
until 2014. In order to obtain the rights for the play, universities must commit two departments
other than theater arts to offer courses on the death penalty. Throughout the country and the
world for the past four years, symposiums, lectures and debates have been held in conjunction
with the theatrical productions leading to a substantial increase in the dialogue and education
surrounding this important issue.
Robbins is also very proud to sponsor educational programs with the Actors Gang that
provide arts education to Elementary, Middle and High School students in the L.A. area. The
Gang has also worked for the past three years providing theatrical workshops to incarcerated
inmates in the L.A. prison system.
Robbins lives in New York City with his partner, Susan Sarandon, and is the proud father
of 3 mischievous young adults
MICHAEL PEÑA (TK) has distinguished himself as an actor with a wide range of
performances who has worked with an impressive roster of award-winning directors. Peña
earned recognition for his performance in Paul Haggis’ provocative Oscar-winning film Crash,
alongside Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon and Terrence Howard. Critically acclaimed for the film’s
interpretation of complex race relations in contemporary America, Peña garnered multiple best
ensemble nominations for his role as Daniel the locksmith, winning awards from the Screen
Actors Guild and the Broadcast Film Critics Association for the cast’s performance.
More recently, Peña was seen in Robert Redford’s political drama Lions for Lambs, along
with Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep, and starred opposite Nicolas Cage as a Port Authority
policeman in Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center.
Peña’s other credits include Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby, Matthew Ryan
Hoge’s The United States of Leland and Gregor Jordan’s Buffalo Soldiers. Peña was also
recently seen starring opposite Mark Walhberg in Antoine Fuqua’s Shooter as well as in
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel.
On television, Peña starred in the HBO film Walkout. Based on the true story of a young
Mexican American high school teacher who helped stage a massive student walkout in the mid1960s, the production earned Peña an Imagen Award for best actor in the television category. He
also guest appeared on the F/X drama The Shield for its fourth season as one of the central leads
opposite Glenn Close and Anthony Anderson. Other television credits include Steven
Spielberg’s NBC series Semper Fi.
Raised in Chicago, Peña began acting when he beat out hundreds of others in an open call
for a role in Peter Bogdonovich’s To Sir, With Love 2, starring Sidney Poitier.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
NEIL BURGER is the director, co-writer and producer of The Lucky Ones. He also wrote and
directed The Illusionist, starring Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti. The movie was nominated
for an Academy Award for best cinematography and an Independent Spirit Award for best
screenplay.
Previously Burger wrote and directed Interview With the Assassin, winner of best feature
film at both the Woodstock Film Festival and the Avignon Film Festival, and nominated for
three Independent Spirit Awards, including best first film and best first screenplay. He has also
directed commercials for the likes of MasterCard, IBM and ESPN, and was chosen to create a
series of television spots for Amnesty International and their campaign for “prisoners of
conscience.” A graduate of Yale University with a degree in fine arts, Burger lives in New York
City with his family.
DIRK WITTENBORN (writer) is a novelist, screenwriter and producer. He wrote the
critically acclaimed novel Fierce People as well as the screenplay for the film adaptation, which
was directed by Griffin Dunne.
His novels have been translated into 10 languages, and he is the Emmy-nominated
producer of the HBO documentary about children of the superrich, Born Rich. His new novel,
Pharmakon, will be published by Viking in the summer of 2008.
Writing/producing/directing partners BRIAN KOPPELMAN and DAVID LEVIEN
(producers) previously produced Neil Burger’s The Illusionist and his debut feature film,
Interview With the Assassin. The Illusionist, starring Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti, received
an IFP nomination for best screenplay and an Academy Award nomination for best
cinematography. Interview With the Assassin premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival to glowing
reviews and garnered three Independent Spirit Award nominations as well as numerous festival
prizes.
Koppelman and Levien, friends since their teenage years, began writing the screenplay
Rounders in 1996 and, in the interest of creating a script that was as authentic as it was
entertaining, entered the dangerous world of underground poker halls. (Thorough research has
become a trademark for the pair.) The film was produced in 1998 with filmmaker John Dahl
(Last Seduction, Red Rock West) as the director and starring Matt Damon, Edward Norton, John
Malkovich, John Turturro and Martin Landau.
Following Rounders, the pair wrote, directed and produced the film Knockaround Guys, a
story about life as the son of a gangster. The film starred Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, Seth Green,
Dennis Hopper and John Malkovich and was released in 2002. In 2003 Koppelman and Levien
co-wrote the screenplay for The Runaway Jury, based on John Grisham’s novel, which starred
John Cusack, Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman. In 2004 the pair co-wrote the screenplay for
Walking Tall, starring the Rock.
In 2005 they created the acclaimed television series Tilt for ESPN, for which they wrote
and directed the pilot. In 2006 the pair wrote the screenplay Ocean’s Thirteen, which debuted
No. 1 at the box office in June 2007.
Levien recently completed City of the Sun, his third novel after Wormwood (1999) and
Swagbelly, A Novel For Today’s Gentleman (2003). City of the Sun will be published by
Doubleday in March 2008. Koppelman recently wrote the screenplay Solitary Man, which the
duo will soon direct.
RICK SCHWARTZ (producer) is chief executive officer of Overnight Productions, for
which The Lucky Ones is its inaugural production. Films in which Schwartz has been involved
have been nominated for numerous accolades, including 24 Academy Awards, and have amassed
a collective worldwide box office of approximately $1 billion.
Previously Schwartz was senior vice president of production at Miramax Films, working
at the studio for seven years. Films under his supervision included Giuseppe Tornatore’s
Malena, starring Monica Bellucci; Jerry Seinfeld’s documentary Comedian; Jez Butterworth’s
Birthday Girl, starring Nicole Kidman; and many others.
Schwartz built strong relationships with talent, leading them to return to collaborate with
him on future projects. One such relationship was forged with actress Nicole Kidman. After
producing Birthday Girl, Schwartz brought Kidman back to Miramax to star in both Alejandro
Amenabar’s phenomenally successful The Others and Robert Benton’s critically acclaimed
adaptation of Philip Roth’s The Human Stain, co-starring Anthony Hopkins. While at Miramax,
Schwartz was entrusted with the company’s most important relationships and was responsible for
the largest budgeted film in the company’s 25-year history -- Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New
York.
After leaving Miramax, Schwartz joined forces with Initial Entertainment Group’s
Graham King and Colin Cotter to form Blueprint Films, an independent production company.
With King, the duo continued their relationship with Scorsese, producing The Aviator as well as
The Departed. The company also signed a first-look deal with Kidman’s Blossom Films aimed
at developing and producing vehicles in which Kidman would star, including the upcoming
Monte Carlo at 20th Century Fox.
BILL BLOCK (executive producer) founded QED International in December 2005 and,
as chief executive officer, leads day-to-day operations and strategy for the company. Current
projects that QED is producing, financing and distributing include District 9, to be directed by
Neill Blomkamp and produced by Peter Jackson with Sony distributing domestically; Smart
People, directed by Noam Murro and starring Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas
Haden Church with Miramax distributing domestically; The Girl in the Park, directed by David
Auburn and starring Sigourney Weaver and Kate Bosworth; Powder Blue, directed by Timothy
Bui and starring Forest Whitaker and Jessica Biel; and The Echo, directed by Yam Laranas and
starring Jesse Bradford.
Previously Block was president of Artisan Entertainment, where he supervised all
divisions -- film production and acquisitions, international distribution, home entertainment and
television. Block managed Artisan’s senior lending as well as international distribution
relationships. While at Artisan, Block acquired The Blair Witch Project, which realized one of
the most profitable returns on investment in film history. Artisan was successfully sold to Lions
Gate in December 2003. Before Artisan, Block was one of the industry’s leading talent agents as
head of West Coast for International Creative Management from 1992 to 1997 and founder of
the Intertalent Agency.
PAUL HANSON (executive producer) is chief operating officer of QED International,
overseeing all aspects of the company including QED’s financing and production activities, sales
and delivery infrastructure, and administration. Current projects that QED is producing,
financing and distributing include District 9, to be directed by Neill Blomkamp and produced by
Peter Jackson with Sony distributing domestically; Smart People, directed by Noam Murro and
starring Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Haden Church with Miramax
distributing domestically; The Girl in the Park, directed by David Auburn and starring Sigourney
Weaver and Kate Bosworth; Powder Blue, directed by Timothy Bui and starring Forest Whitaker
and Jessica Biel; and The Echo, directed by Yam Laranas and starring Jesse Bradford.
Prior to QED, Hanson was chief financial officer of Key Creatives, a literary
management and production company, and he held several management roles with Artisan
Entertainment, where his responsibilities included the company’s mergers & acquisitions
activity, oversight of the greenlight process, preparing the company’s financial forecast and
providing strategic consulting and operational support to the company’s various business units.
Hanson began his career as an investment banker at Broadview International, where he worked
on technology and media M&A transactions totaling over $1 billion in value.
DECLAN QUINN, BSC (director of photography) recently worked on Jimmy Carter
Man From Plains, written and directed by Jonathan Demme. Other notable directors he has
worked with include Neil Jordan, for whom he shot Breakfast on Pluto; Jim Sheridan, on Get
Rich or Die Tryin’ and In America (for which he won the 2004 IFP Independent Spirit Award for
cinematography); Mira Nair, on Vanity Fair, Hysterical Blindness, Monsoon Wedding and Kama
Sutra (1998 IFP Independent Spirit Award for cinematography); Mike Figgis, on Cold Creek
Manor and Leaving Las Vegas (1996 IFP Independent Spirit Award for cinematography); and
Louis Malle on Uncle Vanya on 42nd Street.
Quinn has also worked with his family on the film This Is My Father, which brother Paul
wrote and directed and which Declan executive produced with Paul and his brother Aidan.
Upcoming films include Pride and Glory, starring Edward Norton and Colin Farrell; and Shine a
Light, a documentary about the Rolling Stones directed by Martin Scorsese.
Born in Ireland, NAOMI GERAGHTY (editor) moved to New York City in 1993. The
Lucky Ones is the second movie Geraghty has edited for Neil Burger; she also cut The Illusionist.
In addition she has worked extensively with director Terry George, with whom she collaborated
on Reservation Road, Hotel Rwanda and The District TV series, which he created. She also cut
In America, directed by Jim Sheridan. Other editing credits include A Map of the World and
Blue Moon.
JAN ROELFS’ (production designer) film credits include the recent Lions for Lambs
and World Trade Center, both of which also starred Michael Peña. His other films include The
Hunting Party, Alexander, Bad Company, Flawless, The Astronaut’s Wife, Gattaca -- for which
he received an Academy Award nomination and an Art Directors Guild Award nomination -- and
The Juror.
Other credits include Little Women, The Baby of Macon, Orlando -- for which he
received an Academy Award nomination -- Eline Vere, Prospero’s Books, The Cook the Thief
His Wife & Her Lover, Drowning by Numbers and A Zed and Two Noughts.
LESLIE POPE’s (production designer) credits as a production designer include the TV
series The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd and the HBO feature film Daybreak. As a set
decorator, she has worked on Lions for Lambs, Spider-Man 3, Failure to Launch, Spanglish,
Seabiscuit (for which she received an Academy Award nomination), Catch Me If You Can, The
Family Man, Flawless, The Astronaut’s Wife, One True Thing, In & Out, Donnie Brasco, The
Juror, Carlito’s Way and many others.
ROLFE KENT (composer) won BMI Film Music Awards for Mean Girls, Sideways,
Freaky Friday, Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde and Legally Blonde. Sideways also
brought him a Golden Globe Award nomination.
His many other credits include The Hunting Party, Reign Over Me, Failure to Launch,
Just Like Heaven, Thank You for Smoking, Wedding Crashers, The Matador, About Schmidt and
Kate & Leopold.
Unit Production Manager
Adam Merims
First Assistant Director
Timothy Bird
Second Assistant Director
Heather Grierson
Visual Consultant
Jan Roelfs
Production Supervisor
Gigi Causey
Post Production Supervisor
Robert Hackl
Co-Producer
Glenn Stewart
CAST
Cheaver
TK
Pat Cheaver
Scott Cheaver
Stan Tilson
Barbara Tilson
Peter Tilson
Bob
Bob's Wife
Janet
Janet’s Husband
Kendra
Brandi
Tom Klinger
Jeanie Klinger
Shannon
Army Psychologist
Soldier in Hospital
Woman in Airport
Guy on Cellphone
Rachel McAdams
Tim Robbins
Michael Peña
Molly Hagan
Mark L. Young
Howard Platt
Arden Myrin
Coburn Goss
John Heard
Jennifer Joan Taylor
Katherine LaNasa
Leo Ford
Susan Yeagley
Emily Swallow
John Diehl
Annie Corley
Katie Korby
Kirk B. R. Woller
James Errico
Meredith Siemsen
Michael Aaron Linder
Reporter on T.V.
Rental Car Agent
Car Dealer
College Girl
College Girl
Girl with Jacket
Carl
Clinic Nurse
Mechanic
Woman in Church
Pastor Nolan
Guitar Store Owner
Bartender at Airport
Army Recruiter
Croupier
Police Desk Sergeant
Detective #1
Detective #2
Police Captain
Caterer
Stunt Coordinator
Go Mobile Stunt Driver
Go Mobile Stunt Rigger
Stunts
Stunt Coordinator New Mexico
Military Technical Advisor
Visual Effects Supervisor
Visual Effects Producer
Set Decorator
Graphic Designer
Art Department Coordinator
A-Camera Operator
First Assistant A-Camera
Jason Knowles
Vis Brown
J. D. Mathein
Kerry Bishé
Brianne Carden
Sarah Steele
Glen Pruett
Karin McKie
Anthony Lee Irons
Anne Jaques
Spencer Garrett
Scott Jaeck
Katherine Cuba
John Hoogenakker
Michael Rizza
Christian Stolte
Kevin Michael Doyle
K. Todd Freeman
Tim Gamble
Rachel Foszcz
Steve Davison
Gil Combs
Steve Austin
J.J. Dashnaw
James Fierro
Dan Maldanado
Carrick O'Quinn
Jeff Shannon
Alicia Skirball
G. Peter King
Major Joseph Todd Breasseale
Viktor Müller
Vit Komrzy
Tanja Deshida
Ellen Lampl
Jourdan Henderson
Gerard Sava
Stanley Fernandez Jr.
2nd Assistant A-Camera
Add'l 2nd Assistant A-Camera
B-Camera Operator
B-Camera First Assistant
B-Camera Second Assistants
Loader
Camera Trainee
Julian Delacruz
Joe Carpita
David T. Knox
David Wightman
Anne Freiroegel
Brian Wells
Chris Wittenborn
Hunter Whalen
Still Photographer
Still Photographer-Chicago
James Bridges
Matt Dinerstein
Script Supervisor
Mary J. Carlson
Production Sound Mixer
Production Sound Mixer-Chicago
Boom Operator
Utility Sound
First Assistant Editor
Apprentice Editor
Stacy Brownrigg
Antonio L. Arroyo
Thadd Day
Steve LaFayette
Arturo Sosa Salazar
Nick Houy
Production Coordinator
Co-Production Coordinator
Travel Coordinator
Kate Kelly
Rosemary A. Orlando
Bridget Quinn
2nd 2nd Assistant Director
Key Set PA
Set Production Assistants
Michelle Gonsiorek
Eric Hingst
Irec Kriske
Anna Zenner
Costume Supervisor
Key Costumer
Additional Costumers
J. Kevin Draves
Jacqueline Beatka
Laura Darner
Steven Frendreis
Jaime Bolla
Sylvetta Christmas
Michael Tomlinson
Costume Assistants
Makeup Design for Rachel McAdams
/Department Head
Assistant Makeup Artist
Additional Makeup
Hair Design for Rachel McAdams
Hair Department Head
Lori Hicks
Kayleen McAdams
Lisa Marie Jelic
Francesca Paris
Sacha Quarles
Additional Hair
Property Master
Assistant Property Master
Additional Assistant Property Masters
Chief Lighting Technician
Best Boy Electric
Company Electrics
Rigging Gaffer-Chicago
Rigging Best Boy-Chicago
Additional Electrics
Additional Rigging Electrics
Key Grip
Best Boy Grip
Best Boy Grip-Chicago
Dolly Grip
Car Grip
Car Rigging Grip
Additional Grips
Best Boy Rigging Grip-Chicago
Additional Rigging Grips
Special Effects Supervisor
Special Effects Foreman
Key Special Effects Assistant
SFX Technicians
Norayne Deters
Martha Brezany-Adams
Daniel W. Fisher
Merje Veski
Dean DeMatteis
Paul Knubley
Mark Castelaz
Sam A. Bertone Jr.
Jeremy Long
David Louie Lukasik
Jerry Tran
Chris Hudecek
Billy Wauer
Dan Gartner
Tim Hawn
David E. Houlle
Matthew LeCrone
Salvatore Miglio Jr.
Seyton K. Pooley
Regan Hudecek
Joseph Louis
Kelly Borisy
Fernando Briones
Chris Ryerson
Koren Salajka
Robert Hicks
Dave Kube
Charles "Chaz" Norcross
Christopher L. Murray
James Handley
Darryl B. Miller
Michael Moore
Richard W. Seaman
Richard Speed
Stuart Slack
Michael P. Ho
David Radocha
Everett Byrom III
Craig D. Byrom
Brian Cross
Sanford P. Gilzow
Jeff Frink
Christopher Rink
Paul A. Christofersen
Production Secretaries
Office Production Assistants
Office Production Interns
Assistants to Mr. Burger
Assistant to Mr. Hanson
Assistant to Mr. Koppelman and Mr.
Levien
Assistant to Mr. Robbins
Assistant to Mr. Schwartz
Additional Set Production Assistants
Set Production Interns
Leadman
Gang Boss
Holly Kay Lee
Sara Hurley
Maria L. Sandhei
Melanie Hocking
Stephanie Graham
Justin Ruane
Geoffrey Tippit
Anne Smith
Britt Meisenheimer
Briana Beland
Mary McGinn
David Novak
Daniel Lamkin
Jane Solomon
Adam Pray
Scott Rose
John Friedberg
Jordana Mollick
Farid E. Nassif
Talia Osteen
Matt Eberle
Benjamin T. Brammeier
Matthew Goodwin
B. Kreiling
Sherry Needham
Charles Newberry
Art Department Assistant
Anthony Barracca
Daryl Ziemke
Tom Gagnon
Charles W. DelGreco
John Donahue
David G. Hansen
Kyle Holden
Michael E. Lubomski
Kathleen A. Oddo
Jim Tudor
Juan Vela
Deb Parker
Construction Coordinator
Troy O. Osman
Swing
On Set Dresser
Additional Swing Gang
Lead Scenic Artist/Head Painter
Stand-by Painter
Carpenter Foreman
Scenic Foreman-Las Vegas
Scenic
Painter
Casting Associates
Casting-Chicago
Extras Casting
Extras Casting-Chicago
Extras Casting Assistant-Chicago
Extras Casting Assistant-St. Louis
Dialect Coach
Supervising Location Manager
Assistant Location Managers
Assistant Location Manger-Chicago
Assistant Location Manager-St. Louis
Assistant Location Manager-Colorado
Assistant Location Manager-Las Vegas
Location Assistants
Location Scouts
Location PA's
Location Intern
Production Accountant
First Assistant Accountant
Second Assistant Accountant
Third Assistant Accountant
Payroll Accountants
Accounting Consultant
Gary Wimmer
William F. Gambill
Robert Lucas
Tom Umholtz
Kelsey Lapoint
Martin Workman
Garrett McGuire
Claire Simon
Tina Kerr
On Location Casting
Darlene Hunt
Extraordinary Casting
Rachel Komar
Scott Blasko
Tanera Marshall
Santiago Quinones
Tyson Bidner
Elizabeth Sarah Goldsmith
Jean Chien
Christopher George
Payton Dunham
Joaquin Diego Prange
Michael Grosky
Dana Gray
Timothy Hollis
Eric Bednarowicz
Tim Territo
Colin Woodson
Dan Kinkade
Carolyn Emanuel
Kelley Maher
Justin Fuchs
Keoni Fukino
Maiko Tomita
Michele Boudreau
Amy Smolev
Marci Graber
Tiffany Romero
Stephanie Wescott
Anthony J. Shandra
Denise Taitel
Joel Tokarsky
Accounting Clerk-Las Vegas
Transportation Coordinator
Transportation Captain-Chicago
Transportation Captain-St. Louis
Transportation Captain-Colorado
Transportation Captain-Las Vegas
Company Drivers
Insert Car Drivers
Honeywagon Driver
Drivers-Chicago
Drivers-St. Louis
Drivers-Colorado
Desirée Medina
Thaddeus E. Larkowski
Michael P. Deal
Daniel L. Cowden
Phillip W. Helman
Scott Jimerson
Richard Cappiello
James L. Chin
Tracy Craytor
John Nallen
Michael Carter
Doug Stewart
Gary Shuckahosee
Joseph Alfano
James W. Duffy
John R. Farris
Paul L. Hoffman
Doug Kreag
Larry D. McKisic
Jerry Edward Meyers
David Oczkowicz
Steven O'Toole
Donald R. Peterson
Brian A. Ruiz
Chris Serpe
Keith J. Tobin
Christopher M. Woods
Sandra A. Constantine
Jim Cowden
Donna J. Eaker
Salvatore English
Sonya Hancock
Mary Helton
Leslie M. Huesemann
Glenn Korbesmeyer
Richard Ladendecker
Kenneth L. Mason
Vicki Parrish
James M. Stillman
Nancy Sue Stuart
Robin Vohsen
Daniel J. Biggs
Stephen H. Davenport
Philip Fiori
Drivers-Las Vegas
Picture Car Assistants
Set Medics
Security
Catering
Caterer
Chef
Assistant Chefs
Isaac Fogler
John E. Jaramillo
Regina E. Krueger
Juliette Mondot
Ronald Longevitch
Darryl Maggs
Daniel J. Rodell
Rob Sackett
Rita Schafer
Dennis J. Steele
Brad Wright
Gil Amaral
Jason E. Andersen
Mark Callaghan
Damon D. Goldman
Charles "Peewee" Goldsmith
Michael "Sparky" Goodall
Bud B. Kellogg
Steve A. Magdaleno
Rowdy McDaniel
J. Gregory Orr
Michael Owens
Elvis Pidsosny
Garret Vandever
Rodney Stinedurf
Margo Zuffante
Benjamin T. Brammeier
Vail Romeyn
Jesus E. Villarreal
Jim O'Lear
Lawrence W. Murray
Larry W. Campbell
Jeffrey Hall
Josh Sparks
David G. Anderson
Gina Meredith
Andrea Dyrdahl
Browder's
American Roadshow
P.J. Haines
Sean J. Lynn
Frederick K. Eckstein
Ariel Reboyras
Craft Service
Craft Service Assistant
International Sales
Rights and Clearances
Production Legal
Completion Guaranty provided by
Travel services provided by
Executive Producer
Collection Account Management
Production Financing
Delivery Consultant
Publicity Consultant
Jeffrey Hurt
Allan Davis
Christian Callaway
Michael S. Chesler
QED International
Kimberly Fox
Tatyana Joffe
Gregory Fein
Media Research and Clearance, Inc.
Michael J. Linowes
Film Finances, Inc.
The Travel Girls
Said Boudarga
Fintage House
Comerica Bank
In Association with Aramid Entertainment
Fund
Linda Rosman
Jeff Baskin
New York Unit
Director of Photography
Production Supervisor
First Assistant Camera
Second Assistant Camera
Key Grip
Scorpio Head Tech
Property Masters
Location Manager
Driver
Production Assistants
Patrick Capone
Nora Killoran
Tim Norman
Holis Meminger
John Donahue
Lance Rieck
Jill Alexander
Rachael Winzimer
Steve Faughnan
Emmanuel Santiago
Ashlee Vann
Kenneth Walker
Additional Photography
Cinematographer
Line Producer/Production Manager
First Assistant Director
Second Assistant Director
Production Supervisor
Production Coordinator
Richard Rutkowski
John J. Kelly
Mitchell Bock
Keith Potter
Heather Longerbeam
Kyndall Holstead
1st Assistant Camera
2nd Assistant Camera
Camera Loader
Sound Mixer
Boom Operator
Costume Supervisor
Makeup Department Head
Gaffer
Best Boy Electric
Electric
Key Grip
Best Boy Grip
Grip
Grip
Property Master
Special Effects Assistant
Production Secretary
Production Assistants
Set Production Assistants
Transportation Captain
Drivers
Craft Service
Set Medic
Peter Roome
Nermin Durmo
Patrick Barnes
Rodney Gurule
Ryland Whitten-Smith
Lindsay Kouri
Jennifer McDaniels
Dante Cardone
James A. Garcia
Richard Pink
Chris Espest
David Cummings
Brian Malone
John Sneezeby
Mark Hansen
Joel Hobbie
Joanna Maes-Corlew
David Dilley
Carrie Fleming
Jesse Herron
Rob Jackson
Alex McCullough
Aaron Schor
Mary McGinnis
Leo Reyes
Derek Pritchard
Tom Byrd
Christy Claunch
Graham Elliott
Lindsay Elliot
Michael Ray Evans
Paul Hackett
Josh Laurio
Colin Meador
Allison Jandreau-Heil
James Lewis
Sound Design & Editorial
Supervising Sound Editor
Dialogue Editor
ADR Editor
Sound Effects Editor
Foley Supervisor and Recordist
Assistant Sound Editor
Lewis Goldstein
Jac Rubenstein
Cate Montana
Rusty Dunn
Rachel Chancey
Allen Lau
Sound Intern
Music Programming
Percussion Programming
Scoring Mixer
Music Editors
Nathan Lindsey
Stephen Coleman
Trevor Gilchrist
Greg Townley
Nick South
Joseph S. De Beasi
Re-Recording Services Provided By Sound One
Re-Recording Mixers
Sound Re-Recordist
ADR Voice Casting
ADR Mixers
ADR Recordists
Foley Artist
Dolby Sound Consultant
Dominick Tavella
Lewis Goldstein
Keith Culbertson
Sondra James
Alan Freedman
David Boulton
Matthew McKenzie
Mike Howells
Michael Suarez
Shaun Brennan
Eric Vierhaus
Visual Effects by UPP, Prague (logo)
Visual Effects Producer
Visual Effects Supervisor
Visual Effects Coordinator
2D Compositors
3D CGI Animators
Matte Paint
SW & HW Support
Vit Komrzy
Viktor Müller
Jan Vseticek
Stepan Batousek
Jana Jurnickova
Sarka Chladova
Miro Gal
Victor Plch
Radek Dvorak
Jiri Stamfest
Tereza Severova
Ivo Marak
Jan Krupicka
Visual Effects and Compositing – Technicolor Digital Services, Burbank
Digital Supervisor
Visual Effects Executive Producer
Lead Compositor
Digital Compositors
Tom Burton
John Follmer
Stevan del George
Danny Albano
Anthony Davis
Visual Effects Producer
Visual Effects Coordinator
Karen Krause
Sarah Obacz
Main and End Titles by Pacific Title & Art Studio
Producer
Associate Producer
Title Coordinator
Title Design
Ladd Lanford
Emily Fenster
Brent Parris
Jay Johnson
Digital Intermediate by Technicolor NY
DI Executive Producer
DI Producer
DI Colorist
Barbara Jean Kearney
Dana Bloder
Joe Gawler
Tim Stipan
Joey Violante
Crystal Pei
Kristyn Dipane
Jesse Morrow
Michael P. Whipple
Jacob Robinson
Jimmy Fusil
Alex Hernandez
Elizabeth Ostermann
Dailies Advisor
Dailies Colorist
Dailies Project Manager
Fire Artist
Engineer
DI Technical Assistant
Imaging
Restoration
SONGS
“RAGGED WOOD”
Written by Robin Pecknold
Performed by Fleet Foxes
Published by Foxes Fellowship (ASCAP)
Courtesy of Sub Pop Records
"SWEETSPOT"
Written by Kyler England and Eve Nelson
Performed by The Rescues
Published by Wooden Spoon Publishing (ASCAP) /
Clamshell Music (ASCAP)
Courtesy of Gypsy Rock Records
"REAL LOVE”
Written and Performed by Lucinda Williams
Published by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.
o/b/o itself and Lucy Jones Music (BMI)
Courtesy of Lost Highway Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
“TALENTED”
Written and Performed by Sourcerer
Published by Neenoon Tunes (ASCAP)/
Pick 'n Sing (BMI)
“A LETTER FROM PRISON”
“CONSTRUCTIVE SUMMER”
Written by Geoff Bartley
Performed by The Infamous Stringdusters
Published by Joshua Omar’s Music (BMI)
Courtesy of Sugar Hill Records, a Welk
Music Group Company
Written by Judd Counsell, Bob Drake, Craig Finn,
Tad Kubler, Franz Nicolay, Galen Polivka
Performed by The Hold Steady
Published by Muyinteresante Music (ASCAP) / Key
Hits (ASCAP) / FSMGI (IMRO) / all rights controlled
and administered by State One Songs America, LLC
(ASCAP)
Courtesy of Vagrant Records
"BABY LOVES ME ALL THE TIME"
Written by Dewayne Satterfield
Published by Source in Sync Music (ASCAP)
Courtesy of 5 Alarm Music
“BLIND EAGLE”
Written and Performed by Sourcerer
Published by Neenoon Tunes (ASCAP)/
Pick 'n Sing (BMI)
“SAULSALITO”
Written and Performed by Conor Oberst
Published by Sony/ATV Music
Publishing LLC (BMI)/Bedrooms
Bedrooms and Spiders (BMI)
Courtesy of Merge Records
By arrangement with Bank Robber Music
“HOLDING STEADY”
Written by Shelly Colvin, Mando Saenz
Performed by Shelly Colvin
Published by Sea Shell by the Seashore Music
(ASCAP)
/ Jack Global Publishing (ASCAP) administered
by Cherry Lane Music Publishing Company, Inc.
/ Scrambler Music (ASCAP) a division of Carnival
Music Group / Absurd Music (ASCAP)
Courtesy of Parallel Entertainment
"CHATTAHOOCHIE COOCHIE MAN”
Written and Performed by Kevn Kinney
Published by Drop in the Bucked Music (BMI)
Courtesy of Mammoth Records
“MOST EVERY NIGHT”
Written by Stephen Lang, Jamie Dunlap, Scott
Nickoley, Marc Ferrari
Performed by Lewis LaMedica & Lori Mark
Published by Red Engine Music (ASCAP) / Revision
West (BMI)
Courtesy of MasterSource Music Catalog, Inc.
“EVIL WAYS”
Written by Clarence Henry
Performed by Ray Pittman Project
Published by Universal - Songs Of Polygram Int.,
Inc. on behalf of itself and Richcar Music Corp. (BMI)
“LE WHISKEY C’EST MON AMI"
Written by Ivy Dugas
Performed by Pine Leaf Boys
Published by Whitewing Music (BMI)
Courtesy of Lionsgate
“DONE DEAL”
Written by Stephen Lang, Jamie Dunlap,
Scott Nickoley
Performed by Francis Benitez
Published by Red Engine Music (ASCAP) /
Revision West (BMI)
Courtesy of MasterSource Music Catalog, Inc.
“SHAKE IT”
Written by H. Sanchez, K. Perazzo, J. Calloway
Performed by Latin Soul Syndicate
Published by Big Tiger Music, Inc. (BMI) / Lovecat
Courtesy of CD Baby
“BIRD OF PARADISE”
Written by Molly Pasutti, Jamie Dunlap, Scott Nickoley
Performed by Molly Pasutti
Published by Red Engine Music (ASCAP) / Revision
West (BMI)
Courtesy of MasterSource Music Catalog, Inc.
“TRAMPOLINE”
Written and Performed by Joe Henry
Published by WB Music Corp (ASCAP) o/b/o Itself,
True North Music & Lemz Music
Courtesy of Mammoth Records
“America’s Got Talent” clips courtesy of Fremantle Media
Limited
Copyright  2007 Syco Television, LLC, and
FremantleMedia North America, Inc.
News footage courtesy of CNN
Music(ASCAP)
Courtesy of Lovecat Music
By Arrangement with Ocean Park Music Group
“PHASES”
Written by Tim Kobza
Published by Engine No. 35 (ASCAP)
Courtesy of 5 Alarm Music
SPECIAL THANKS
Mr. Vincente C. Ogilvie
Deputy Special Assistant for Entertainment Media
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense
The Commander and Soldiers of the 194th Military Police Company,
101st Airbourne Division (AASLT)
Fort Campbell, Kentucky, U.S. Army
The Commander and Soldiers of the 89th Regional Readiness Command,
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. Army
The Commander and Soldiers of the 6th U.S. Army Recruiting Brigade,
Las Vegas, Nevada
The Commander and Soldiers of Fort Dix, New Jersey, U.S. Army
Diana Kellogg
Karl Austen
Spencer Baumgarten
Christopher Corabi
Jon Gumpert
Christopher J. Corabi
Cheryl Bergman
Michele Rosen
Dawn Frederick
Patricia Foulkrod
Illinois Film Office, Betsy Steinberg
Missouri Film Commission, Jerry Jones
New Mexico Film Office
DreamVision