Varese Sarabande has announced the official soundtrack album for the drama Po. The album features the film’s original score composed by Academy Award and Grammy Award winner Burt Bacharach, as well as the original song Dancing With Your Shadow, composed by Bacharach and featuring lyrics by Billy Mann, and performed by Sheryl Crow. Listen to the song after the jump. Also included is additional music by Joseph Bauer. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, January 13 and will be available to download on Amazon. Po is directed by John Asher and stars Christopher Gorham, Julian Feder and Kaitlin Doubleday. The movie tells the story of a recently widowed father struggling to raise his 10-year-old son who has autism.
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Burt Bacharach to Score John Asher’s ‘Po’
Burt Bacharach has signed on to score the upcoming drama Po. The film is directed by John Asher (Dirty Love) and stars Christopher Gorham, Julian Feder and Kaitlin Doubleday. The movie tells the story of a recently widowed father struggling to raise his 10-year-old son who has autism. Colin Goldman has written the screenplay based on a story by himself and Steve C. Roberts. Asher is also producing the project with Rod Hamilton. Bacharach, whose own daughter Nikki struggled with Asperger’s Syndrome (high-functioning autism), agreed to let Asher use his song Close to You in the film and later, after watching the film, offered to score the film.