Film Music Reporter

Mark Suozzo has recently recorded his score for the indie comedy Damsels in Distress. The movie written and directed by Whit Stillman stars Greta Gerwig, Adam Brody, Analeigh Tipton, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Carrie MacLemore and Hugo Becker. In the film, a trio of beautiful girls set out to revolutionize life at a grungy American university by helping severely depressed students with a program of good hygiene and musical dance numbers. Adam Schlesinger (Music and Lyrics) is also contributing music to the project and is producing a number of songs for the film. Stillman is producing the comedy with Martin Shafer and Liz Glotzer (Friends with Benefits, Faster). Suozzo is best known in the film music community for his score for the 2003 indie American Splendor, as well as his music for The Nanny Diaries and The Notorious Betty Page. He previously worked with Whitman on the director’s previous indies The Last Days of Disco, Barcelona and Metropolitan. Damsels in Distress is set to premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in a few weeks. Sony Pictures Classics will be distributing the movie, but no release date has been announced yet.