Christopher Young Filmography

Born:: Chambersburg, PA
Occupation:: Composer (Music Score)
Biography:: Lead, onscreen from the late '80s. ~ All Movie Guide...Read More

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Sleepwalking

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Nick Stahl, AnnaSophia Robb, Charlize Theron, Deborrah-Lee Furness, Mathew St. Patrick

Synopsis: Charlize Theron, Woody Harrelson, Dennis Hopper, Nick Stahl, AnnaSophia Robb, and Deborrah-Lee Furness star in a family drama detailing the efforts made by an 12-year-old girl to come to terms with her mother's abandonment. Tara's (Robb) mother, Joleen (Theron), just can't seem to get her life Read More

3/14/08
Untraceable

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Diane Lane, Billy Burke, Colin Hanks, Joseph Cross, Mary Beth Hurt

Synopsis: A serial killer with a sickening knack for showmanship and a keen sense of technological know-how sets up a graphic website to taunt the FBI and display his gruesome handiwork in this dark thriller directed by Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear and Frequency) and starring Diane Lane. As a cybercimes Read More

1/25/08
Shortcut to Happiness

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Alec Baldwin, Dan Aykroyd, Kim Cattrall

Synopsis: Alec Baldwin, Anthony Hopkins, Kim Cattrall, Dan Aykroyd, and Jennifer Love Hewitt star in this re-imagining of Walter Huston's The Devil and Daniel Webster - this time concerning a struggling writer who sells his soul to Old Scratch (Hewitt) in a desperate bid to find fame and fortune on the Read More

7/13/07
Spider-Man 3

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco

Synopsis: Your friendly neighborhood web-slinger is back, only this time his sunny outlook has become partially overcast in the third chapter of director Sam Raimi's Spider-Man saga. Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, and James Franco return to reprise their roles from the previous two installments, with Thomas Haden Church Read More

5/4/07
Lucky You

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore, Robert Duvall, Debra Messing, Horatio Sanz

Synopsis: A professional poker player whose astounding luck at the table fails to translate into his lonesome love life attempts to win the World Series of Poker while simultaneously earning the affections of a beautiful Las Vegas singer in a high-stakes emotional drama from L.A. Confidential director Curtis Hanson Read More

5/4/07
Ghost Rider

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Wes Bentley, Sam Elliott

Synopsis: When a motorcycle-riding stuntman offers his soul to Mephistopheles in order to save the life of the one he loves most, he is forced to play host to a powerful supernatural entity whose flaming skull visage strikes fear into the heart of his enemies in this feature-film version of the long-running Read More

2/16/07
The Grudge 2

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Amber Tamblyn, Arielle Kebbel, Jennifer Beals, Edison Chen, Sarah Roemer

Synopsis: Japanese horror specialist Takashi Shimizu returns to the mythology that terrified audiences the world over with this terror-inducing sequel to the hit 2004 frightener. When a cursed Tokyo home is burned to the ground, the baneful spirit once confined within its walls is suddenly unleased to Read More

10/13/06
The Exorcism of Emily Rose

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Campbell Scott, Jennifer Carpenter, Colm Feore

Synopsis: In this blend of psychological thriller and courtroom drama, Emily Rose (Jennifer Carpenter) is a 19-year-old college student who begins displaying bizarre and troubling behavior; as her actions become increasingly destructive and shocking, Emily begins speaking in strange tongues and destroys Read More

9/9/05
An Unfinished Life

Crew: Additional Music

Actors: Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez, Morgan Freeman, Becca Gardner

Synopsis: Two generations of a damaged family are brought together in this emotional drama. Einar Gilkyson (Robert Redford) was a once successful rancher whose spread went to seed after he developed a serious drinking problem. Now on the wagon, Einar looks after what's left of his spread with his friend Read More

9/9/05
Madison

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: James Caviezel, Jake Lloyd, Mary McCormack, Bruce Dern, Brent Briscoe

Synopsis: Based upon a true story, Madison is a father-son drama based on the highly publicized efforts in Madison, IN, during the hydroplane racing season of 1971. Jim McCormick (James Caviezel) has left behind his life of hydroplane boat racing to settle down and start a family and take a job as an Read More

4/22/05
The Grudge

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, William Mapother, Clea Duvall, KaDee Strickland, Bill Pullman

Synopsis: This American remake of director Takashi Shimizu's popular Japanese movie franchise The Grudge puts Buffy the Vampire Slayer alumna Sarah Michelle Gellar back into the line of supernatural fire. When Karen (Gellar), an American student working with a Japanese health center for college credit Read More

10/22/04
Shade

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Stuart Townsend, Gabriel Byrne, Thandie Newton, Jamie Foxx, Melanie Griffith, Sylvester Stallone

Synopsis: Shade, the first feature film from real-life card shark Damian Nieman, who wrote and directed the picture, stars Gabriel Byrne and Thandie Newton as a duo of con artists looking to beat the "Dean" (Sylvester Stallone), a legendary card shark, in a high-stakes poker game. Their first step is hiring Read More

4/9/04
Something the Lord Made

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Alan Rickman, Mos Def, Kyra Sedgwick, Gabrielle Union, Mary Stuart Masterson, Charles S. Dutton

Synopsis: The true story of two medical pioneers -- one celebrated, one overlooked -- is brought to life in this made-for-cable drama. Alfred Blalock (Alan Rickman) is chief surgeon at Johns Hopkins University, where he is pioneering new techniques in heart surgery. Blalock makes the acquaintance of Vivien Read More

2004
Runaway Jury

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Weisz, Bruce Davison, Jeremy Piven

Synopsis: Three people attempt to bend justice for their own purposes in this drama based on the best-selling novel by John Grisham. After a man dies in a shooting incident, his wife files a lawsuit against the company that manufactured the gun, with her lawyer, Wendell Rohr (Dustin Hoffman), arguing that Read More

10/17/03
The Core

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo, Stanley Tucci, D.J. Qualls

Synopsis: An unlikely band of scientists and soldiers join forces to save the world from certain destruction in this action-drama. As the world is struck with a variety of inexplicable phenomena -- attacks by enormous swarms of birds in London, the explosion of the Colosseum in Rome, a potentially deadly Read More

3/28/03
The Country Bears

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Christopher Walken, Stephen Tobolowsky, Daryl Mitchell, M.C. Gainey, Diedrich Bader

Synopsis: This family musical enjoys the dubious distinction of being the first film ever based on a theme park attraction, the "Country Bears Jamboree" at Disneyworld. Beary Barrington (voice of Haley Joel Osment) is an adolescent bruin raised by a human family after he was found by a park ranger Read More

7/26/02
The Shipping News

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Scott Glenn, Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench, Pete Postlethwaite

Synopsis: The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by E. Annie Proulx becomes this drama from director Lasse Hallström. Kevin Spacey stars as Quoyle, a struggling, emotionally drained newspaper reporter suffering through a wretched marriage with the abusive Petal (Cate Blanchett), a promiscuous wild woman who tries Read More

12/25/01
Bandits

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett, Troy Garity, Brian F. O'Byrne

Synopsis: Director Barry Levinson follows up the low-budget An Everlasting Piece (2000) with another comedy, this one of the homegrown variety from former Twin Peaks (1990) TV series writer Harley Peyton. Bruce Willis stars as suave bank robber Joe, who has escaped from prison with his hypochondriac buddy Read More

10/12/01
The Glass House

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Leelee Sobieski, Diane Lane, Stellan Skarsgård, Bruce Dern, Kathy Baker, Trevor Morgan

Synopsis: This teen psychological thriller marks the feature film debut of respected television producer and director Daniel Sackheim. Leelee Sobieski stars as Ruby Baker, a high school student who is devastated when her parents Grace and Dave (Rita Wilson and Michael O'Keefe) are killed in a tragic car Read More

9/14/01
Swordfish

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Vinnie Jones

Synopsis: Director Dominic Sena follows up his stylish action film Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) with this high-tech thriller. John Travolta stars as Gabriel Shear, a charismatic spy who plots to steal a multi-billion-dollar fortune in illegal government funds. In order to make his scheme work, however, Gabriel Read More

6/8/01
Sweet November

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Charlize Theron, Jason Isaacs, Greg Germann, Liam Aiken

Synopsis: This romantic melodrama reunites The Devil's Advocate (1997) co-stars Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron, and is directed by Irish filmmaker Pat O'Connor (Circle of Friends). Sara Deever (Theron) is a beautiful young woman who begins a new romantic relationship with a man each month, then helps him Read More

2001
Scenes of the Crime

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Jon Abrahams, Noah Wyle, Morris Chestnut, Mädchen Amick

Synopsis: A small-time crook who worships Steve McQueen gets in over his head in French music video director Dominique Forma's debut feature, Scenes of the Crime. Lenny (Jon Abrahams of Scary Movie) is about to be married, but he skips his own bachelor party to drive for thug Rick (Peter Greene), who Read More

2001
The Gift

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Keanu Reeves, Katie Holmes, Greg Kinnear, Hilary Swank

Synopsis: Supernatural horror meets character drama in this Sam Raimi-directed thriller. Set in Georgia, the film concerns a widowed mother named Annie (Cate Blanchett) who is blessed with the ability to have psychic visions. When Annie is asked to use her powers to investigate the murder of a rich society Read More

12/20/00
Bless the Child

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Kim Basinger, Jimmy Smits, Holliston Coleman, Rufus Sewell, Angela Bettis, Christina Ricci

Synopsis: In this supernatural horror story, Jenna (Angela Bettis), an unstable young woman, gives birth to a girl named Cody who proves to be autistic; unable to care for her properly, she turns Cody over to her sister, psychiatric nurse Maggie O'Connell (Kim Basinger). Maggie raises Cody as her own, but Read More

8/11/00
The Big Kahuna

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito, Peter Facinelli

Synopsis: Three salesmen working for a firm that makes industrial lubricants are waiting in the company's "hospitality suite" at a manufacturers' convention for a "big kahuna" named Dick Fuller to show up, in hopes they can persuade him to place an order that could salvage the company's flagging sales. Phil Read More

4/28/00
Wonder Boys

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Robert Downey, Jr., Katie Holmes

Synopsis: In this comedy, a middle-aged man juggles his problems with women, literature, and a career, while a younger man chases the artifact of his dreams. Pittsburgh college professor Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas) is currently single following his divorce from his third wife; after publishing an Read More

2/25/00
The Hurricane

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Denzel Washington, Vicellous Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger, Liev Schreiber, John Hannah

Synopsis: In 1966, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was a top-ranked middleweight boxer whom many fight fans expected to become world champion. When three people were shot to death in a bar in Paterson, New Jersey, Carter and his friend John Artis, driving home from another club in Paterson, were stopped and Read More

12/29/99
Entrapment

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Ving Rhames, Will Patton, Maury Chaykin

Synopsis: After a long career playing good guys, Sean Connery gets to have some fun playing a crook for a change in the romantic crime thriller Entrapment -- and he even gets to break the law with the lovely Catherine Zeta-Jones. When a priceless Rembrandt painting is stolen from a New York skyscraper in a Read More

4/30/99
In Too Deep

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Omar Epps, LL Cool J, Nia Long, Stanley Tucci, Hill Harper

Synopsis: In this crime thriller, L.L. Cool J is a underworld boss so powerful that his nickname is "God." He has his fingers in 80% of the drug traffic in Cincinnati, has won over nearly every adversary through bribery or intimidation, and seems practically untouchable. New police detective Jeffrey Cole (Omar Epps Read More

1/1/99
Urban Legend

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, Michael Rosenbaum, Loretta Devine, Joshua Jackson, Tara Reid, Danielle Harris

Synopsis: Australian director Jamie Blanks helmed this teen horror film set at Pendleton University. Campus legend has it that 25 years earlier Pendleton was the site of a mass murder by a demented abnormal psych instructor who killed six students and then himself. However, no proof of the prof's deed Read More

9/25/98
Rounders

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Matt Damon, Edward Norton, John Turturro, Gretchen Mol, Famke Janssen

Synopsis: John Dahl directed this exploration of New York private clubs devoted to high-stakes poker, with first-person narration from the film's central figure, law student Mike McDermott (Matt Damon), who loses his entire savings to Russian club owner Teddy KGB (John Malkovich). Mike then turns away from Read More

9/11/98
Hard Rain

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Randy Quaid, Minnie Driver, Ed Asner

Synopsis: A natural disaster breeds man-made treachery in this suspense thriller. Severe flooding threatens an Indiana town after a massive rainstorm taxes dams to the breaking point. As part of an emergency evacuation effort, armored car driver Tom (Christian Slater) and his uncle Charlie (Edward Asner) Read More

1998
Hush

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jessica Lange, Gwyneth Paltrow, Johnathon Schaech, Nina Foch, Debi Mazar, Hal Holbrook

Synopsis: Jonathan Darby made his directorial debut with this thriller, set in Kentucky (but filmed in Orange County, VA). Jackson Baring (Johnathon Schaech) wants his girlfriend, Helen (Gwyneth Paltrow), to meet his mother, Martha (Jessica Lange), so he brings her home for Christmas to Kilronan, their Read More

1998
Judas Kiss

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Simon Baker-Denny, Gil Bellows, Carla Gugino, Alan Rickman, Til Schweiger

Synopsis: Young lovers and small-time New Orleans scammers Coco Chavez (Carla Gugino) and Junior Armstrong (Simon Baker-Denny) move up a few rungs when they kidnap wealthy computer mogul Ben Dyson (Greg Wise) in Sebastian Gutierrez's neo-noir. During the crime, Coco kills Dyson's girlfriend, Patty (Beverly Penberthy Read More

1998
Murder at 1600

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Diane Lane, Daniel Benzali, Dennis Miller, Alan Alda

Synopsis: A police detective finds that looking into a murder is anything but routine when one of the suspects is the President of the United States. When the nude and bloodied corpse of an attractive woman is found in a bathroom at the White House, Harlan Regis (Wesley Snipes), a top detective with the Read More

1997
The Man Who Knew Too Little

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Bill Murray, Peter Gallagher, Joanne Whalley, Alfred Molina, Richard Wilson

Synopsis: Jon Amiel directed this satire on mistaken-identity thrillers and the spy genre, scripted by Robert Farrar, Tim John, and Oliver Butcher from Farrar's unpublished novel, Watch That Man. In the female lead, Joanne Whalley returned to films after a three-year absence, choosing to do so with Read More

1997
Unforgettable

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ray Liotta, Linda Fiorentino, Peter Coyote, Christopher McDonald, Kim Cattrall

Synopsis: Iconoclastic director John Dahl used a screenplay by John Geddie as the basis for this far-fetched story of a man -- suspected of killing his wife -- who borrows murder victims' memories to track the real culprit. Ray Liotta plays Dr. David Krane, a Seattle medical examiner charged with murdering Read More

1996
Set It Off

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox, Kimberly Elise, John C. McGinley

Synopsis: The sophomore film effort from music video director F. Gary Gray, Set It Off is a crime thriller about four women bank robbers from a housing project in L.A. Ever since her parents' death, Stony (Jada Pinkett Smith) has had to act as a parent to her little brother Stevie (Chaz Lamar Shepard). She Read More

1996
Head Above Water

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Harvey Keitel, Cameron Diaz, Craig Sheffer, Billy Zane, Shay Duffin

Synopsis: A woman finds out how the dead body of your old boyfriend can ruin your whole day in this black comedy. Nathalie (Cameron Diaz) is a lovely young woman with a history of substance abuse problems who is married to George (Harvey Keitel), a circuit court judge who first met her when she was brought Read More

1996
Copycat

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter, Dermot Mulroney, William McNamara, Will Patton

Synopsis: A serial killer stalks the streets of San Francisco; unlike his many predecessors does not choose a distinctive, identifying pattern. No, this killer prides himself on his unoriginality: he is a copycat, recreating the violent murders of some of the country's most notorious serial killers, his Read More

1995
Tales From the Hood

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Clarence Williams III, Corbin Bernsen, Joe Torry, Wings Hauser, Anthony Griffith, Michael Massee

Synopsis: Boyz N the Hood meets Tales from the Crypt in this alternately horrific, funny, and socially conscious anthology film. The four grim vignettes are framed by the tale of three street hoods who break into Mr. Simm's inner-city funeral home to find a stash of drugs. The mortician puts them off, by Read More

1995
Murder in the First

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Christian Slater, Kevin Bacon, Gary Oldman, Embeth Davidtz, William H. Macy

Synopsis: This shocking prison drama was inspired by a true story. In 1938, Henri Young (Kevin Bacon), sentenced to Alcatraz for stealing $5, attempted to escape from prison with three other prisoners. One of the escapees was captured, and to curry favor with Warden Glenn (Gary Oldman), he informed on the Read More

1995
Species

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Alfred Molina, Forest Whitaker, Marg Helgenberger, Natasha Henstridge

Synopsis: Fine special effects, eclectic casting, and the freeze-frame-worthy, clothing-free debut of a blonde bombshell made this cheesy science fiction/horror hybrid a cut above its B-grade roots. At a top-secret Utah facility headed up by Dr. Xavier Fitch (Ben Kingsley), scientists have created "Sil" (Natasha Henstridge Read More

1995
Virtuosity

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Denzel Washington, Kelly Lynch, Russell Crowe, Stephen Spinella, William Forsythe

Synopsis: In a futuristic, high-tech world run by huge corporations, Parker Barnes (Denzel Washington) is an L.A. policeman serving time for killing the psychotic who murdered his wife and child. Lindenmeyer (Stephen Spinella), a Dr. Frankenstein of the computer era, has created a monster, Sid 6.7 (Russell Crowe Read More

1995
Dream Lover

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: James Spader, Mädchen Amick, Bess Armstrong, Fredric Lehne, Larry Miller

Synopsis: A man discovers that what he doesn't know can hurt him, especially when it comes to his wife, in this suspense drama. Ray Reardon (James Spader) is an architect who has just gone through a messy divorce; while his friends sing the praises of the single life, Ray would prefer to settle into a life Read More

1994
Judicial Consent

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Will Patton, Billy Wirth, Dabney Coleman, Michael Greene, Lisa Blount

Synopsis: A judge is set up for murder in this suspenseful thriller. Criminal court judge Gwen Warwick is about to be appointed to the Michigan Supreme Court. One night she engages in sex with law clerk Martin in his office. They begin a torrid affair. A colleague of Gwen's, Charles Matron, is discovered Read More

1994
Sliver

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, Tom Berenger, Polly Walker, Colleen Camp

Synopsis: Phillip Noyce directed Joe Eszterhas's adaptation of Ira Levin's novel about voyeurism, starring Sharon Stone as Carly Norris, a book editor on the rebound from an emotionless seven-year marriage. Carly decides that a change of location will help her in the healing process, so she moves into a Read More

1993
Jennifer Eight

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Andy Garcia, Uma Thurman, Lance Henriksen, Kathy Baker, Graham Beckel, Kevin Conway

Synopsis: Stressed out LA detective John Berlin gets too near the edge following the destruction of his marriage and decides to leave the violence an un-ending hub-bub of the big city and take a job in the supposedly quiet northern tow of Eureka. Unfortunately, he isn't there long before he finds himself Read More

11/6/92
Rapid Fire

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Brandon Lee, Powers Boothe, Nick Mancuso, Raymond J. Barry, Kate Hodge

Synopsis: In this better-than-average kick-boxer foray, Brandon Lee (son of famed martial-arts film star, Bruce Lee) stars as a young art student who happens to witness a drug murder and is placed in protective custody by federal agents. It's not too long before he realizes that the only real protection he Read More

8/21/92
The Vagrant

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Bill Paxton, Michael Ironside, Marshall Bell, Mitzi Kapture, Colleen Camp

Synopsis: When a successful businessman Graham Krakowski (Bill Paxton) buys a house, he has a hard time evicting the previous tenant--a dirty, homeless vagabond (Marshall Bell). As Graham tries stunt after stunt to rid himself of his unwanted guest, he begins to crack, while the bum figures out new and Read More

5/15/92
Bright Angel

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Dermot Mulroney, Lili Taylor, Sam Shepard, Valerie Perrine, Bill Pullman, Sheila McCarthy

Synopsis: This contemporary western stars Dermot Mulroney as a Montana teenager whose sanity is being eroded by his parent's domestic squabbles. Linking up with Lili Taylor, a Wyoming-bound transient with a checkered history, Mulroney embarks upon an odyssey of self-discovery. Unfortunately, he persists in Read More

6/14/91
The Five Heartbeats

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Robert Townsend, Michael Wright, Leon, Harry J. Lennix, Tico Wells

Synopsis: Loosely based on the life and times of several R&B artists (The Dells, The Temptations, Frankie Lymon, Sam Cooke and others) The Five Heartbeats traces the rise and fall of a popular African-American 1950s singing aggregation. The story is told from the point of view of one of the "Heartbeats," Read More

3/29/91
The Dark Half

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Amy Madigan, Michael Rooker, Julie Harris, Robert Joy

Synopsis: Marking the first collaboration between horror legends George A. Romero and Stephen King since 1982's Creepshow, this moody, atmospheric adaptation of King's novel was actually completed in 1991, but the highly-publicized bankruptcy of its distributor Orion Pictures in that same year nearly doomed Read More

1991