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John Swihart is a Sound American born on 1964

John Swihart

John Swihart
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Nationality USA
Birth 1964 (60 years)

John Swihart is an American musical composer for Film, and Television. He is perhaps best known for his score to "Napoleon Dynamite", "Youth in Revolt", "Employee Of The Month", and his music for the TV shows "How I Met Your Mother", and "Go On".

John Swihart was raised in Bloomington, Indiana, the son of a physicist based at Indiana University. He spent a portion of his formative years in Europe and Asia, where his father would sabbatical.

John had some musical training at a very young age but was not deeply absorbed by music until he was about eight. Swihart would leave Indiana to attend Berklee College of Music, in Boston.

Swihart played Chapman Stick, Bass, Guitar and Zither in the Boston, New York and Las Vegas Blue Man Group shows, on his way to Los Angeles.
His breakout film project Napoleon Dynamite premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004.

Usually with

Danny Leiner
Danny Leiner
(3 films)
Fred Durst
Fred Durst
(3 films)
Hart Bochner
Hart Bochner
(2 films)
Julie Davis
Julie Davis
(1 films)
Jeremy Coon
Jeremy Coon
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of John Swihart (40 films)

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Sound

The Fanatic
Directed by Fred Durst
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors John Travolta, Devon Sawa, James Paxton, Luis Da Silva, Josh Richman
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating41% 2.0560252.0560252.0560252.0560252.056025
Moose est fan de cinéma et fan de son acteur préféré, Hunter Dunbar, qu'il idolâtre. Obsédé à la folie par "sa" star, il va finir par le persécuter et vouloir détruire sa vie.
Table 19
Table 19 (2017)
, 1h27
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Anna Kendrick, Amanda Crew, Stephen Merchant, Lisa Kudrow, Wyatt Russell, Craig Robinson
Roles Music
Rating58% 2.901922.901922.901922.901922.90192
Eloise est une demoiselle d'honneur qui, lors d'un mariage, est abandonnée au dernier moment par son compagnon. Elle décide quand même de participer à la cérémonie et s'installe à la table — portant le chiffre 19 — de cinq marginaux, mis à l'écart des autres invités et avec qui elle fait connaissance.
First Girl I Loved
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Brianna Hildebrand, Dylan Gelula, Pamela Adlon, Cameron Esposito, Tim Heidecker, Jennifer Prediger
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating61% 3.052823.052823.052823.052823.05282
Anne, une jeune fille de 17 ans, tombe amoureuse de Sasha, l'étudiante la plus populaire du lycée et la vedette de l'équipe de softball.
The Young Kieslowski, 1h36
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Ryan Malgarini, Haley Lu Richardson, Joshua Malina, Melora Walters, James LeGros, Osric Chau
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating65% 3.255383.255383.255383.255383.25538
The Young Kieslowski is a relationship comedy about Brian Kieslowski and Leslie Mallard, both undergraduates at Caltech, and both socially awkward virgins. At a party, they meet and hook-up. Afterwards, Leslie discovers that she is pregnant with twins, and decides she wants to keep them. Brian, in his first relationship and out of his depth, does what he believes is the right thing. He pretends to support her in her decision, while secretly hoping that she will change her mind. The two of them then embark on a California road trip to break the big news to both of their uniquely dysfunctional families.
Accidental Love, 1h41
Directed by David O. Russell
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Jake Gyllenhaal, Jessica Biel, James Marsden, Catherine Keener, Paul Reubens, Kirstie Alley
Roles Music
Rating41% 2.0548552.0548552.0548552.0548552.054855
Alice Eckle est serveuse dans un restaurant. Un jour, elle reçoit un clou dans la tête. Elle n’a cependant pas les moyens de payer l’assurance maladie pour soigner ses séquelles. Elle part donc à Washington et se lie avec Howard, un jeune politicien qui souhaite l'aider.
Staten Island Summer, 1h47
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Graham Phillips, Zack Pearlman, John DeLuca, Will Forte, Kate Walsh, Fred Armisen
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating56% 2.8020752.8020752.8020752.8020752.802075
Pals Danny et Frank passent l'été après l'école secondaire à travailler comme des sauveteurs, tout en résolvant leur avenir.
As Night Comes, 1h43
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Luke Baines, Nicolas Cage, Martin Kove
Roles Music
Rating41% 2.0509652.0509652.0509652.0509652.050965
Sean (Myko Olivier) is a young teen that has attracted the attentions of Ricky (Luke Baines) after he saves Sean from his abusive father. As Ricky is the leader of a gang of outcast teenagers called the Misfits, Sean falls right in with the group. However even among these outcasts Sean does not feel like he truly belongs, especially after hearing that the Misfits plan on staging a series of beatings to various townspeople that they deem deserving.
Odd Thomas
Odd Thomas (2013)
, 1h33
Directed by Stephen Sommers
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Crime
Actors Anton Yelchin, Willem Dafoe, Leonor Varela, Patton Oswalt, Addison Timlin, Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating68% 3.4013753.4013753.4013753.4013753.401375
Odd Thomas (Yelchin) is a psychic who lives in a small town in California. He describes his ability as, "I see dead people, but then, by God, I do something about it." One morning the ghost of a teenage girl, Penny Kallisto, silently leads him to Harlo Landerson. Odd accuses Harlo of raping and murdering Penny. Harlo flees. Odd chases him into a child's bedroom in a stranger's house. Harlo and Odd fight and Harlo is knocked unconscious. Odd's friend, police chief Wyatt Porter (Dafoe), is aware of Odd's psychic gifts and promises to spin the story to keep public attention away from him.
For a Good Time, Call..., 1h25
Directed by Jamie Travis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Ari Graynor, Lauren Miller, Justin Long, Stephanie Beard, Mimi Rogers, Kevin Smith
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating59% 2.998882.998882.998882.998882.99888
After Lauren is dumped by her boyfriend, she is unable to afford a place of her own. Her old friend Jesse informs her of a beautiful apartment right by Gramercy Park, but does not include the fact that his other friend Katie lives there. During their freshman year of college, Lauren had to drive an inebriated Katie home from a frat party. She accidentally spilled her own urine onto Lauren from an empty slushie container, and was promptly thrown out of the car. Despite their clear disdain for each other, they reluctantly move in together for lack of better options.
Losing Control, 1h31
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Reid Scott, Kathleen Robertson, Theo Alexander, Steve Howey, John Billingsley, Bitsie Tulloch
Rating42% 2.1286252.1286252.1286252.1286252.128625
Convaincue que son ami de longue date n'est pas l'homme de sa vie, une étudiante en biophysique s'emploie à tester scientifiquement sa compatibilité avec d'autres candidats.
Lucky
Lucky (2011)
, 1h43
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Colin Hanks, Ari Graynor, Jeffrey Tambor, Ann-Margret, Mimi Rogers, Adam Harrington
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating52% 2.6480152.6480152.6480152.6480152.648015
A young blonde woman enters a gas station to buy a lottery ticket where the cashier, Chris, attempts to hit on her by asking for her ID before selling her a six-pack. She rebuffs him and begrudgingly hands him her license before receiving her receipt and the ticket then promptly walking off. While placing her money in the register, Chris notices her ID laying on the counter and runs out calling her name, Leslie, and receiving no response.
Flypaper
Flypaper (2011)
, 1h27
Directed by Rob Minkoff
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Ashley Judd, Patrick Dempsey, Octavia Spencer, Adrian Martinez, Jeffrey Tambor, Mekhi Phifer
Roles Music
Rating63% 3.1508653.1508653.1508653.1508653.150865
A bank is simultaneously attacked by two groups of robbers: three high-tech professionals and two rustic buffoons. One bystander is quickly shot and killed, apparently by accident, and seven hostages taken. One of the hostages, an obsessive-compulsive customer, notices several puzzling details, from which he guesses that the coincidence was intentional: the robbers (among others) were lured here, with misleading blueprints and defective equipment, so that another criminal – at the top of the FBI's wanted list of bank robbers – could kill them to cover his own trail.
The Other Woman, 1h59
Directed by Don Roos
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Natalie Portman, Lisa Kudrow, Lauren Ambrose, Scott Cohen, Charlie Tahan, Anthony Rapp
Roles Music
Rating62% 3.1487553.1487553.1487553.1487553.148755
Emilia Greenleaf's life is turned upside down when she begins an affair with married high-powered attorney Jack Woolf and learns she is pregnant. After his quick divorce and their quick wedding, it is revealed through a series of flashbacks that her baby girl Isabel died three days after her birth from SIDS. Vilified as a homewrecker, she attracts the unyielding ire of his furious ex-wife, physician Carolyn, who is revealed to also be pregnant (after she heard about Emilia's pregnancy, she realized that she too wanted another child). Emilia thinks that this is purely out of spite. Now she must come to terms with her stepson, William (Tahan), who upsets her with constant references to her dead baby (including saying that under the terms of Jewish law, Isabel did not live long enough to be considered a full human being). Emilia's efforts to bond with William do not go well and succeed only in making both Carolyn and Jack think less of her.
The Perfect Host, 1h32
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Crime, Black comedy
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors David Hyde Pierce, Clayne Crawford, Helen Reddy, Megahn Perry, Joseph Will, Nathaniel Parker
Rating66% 3.347793.347793.347793.347793.34779
Fugitive John Taylor flees an initially unspecified crime, with a wounded foot. (Flashbacks and news reports reveal he robbed a bank, in collusion with his girlfriend Simone, who was a teller in the bank.) He stops in a convenience store for some disinfectant, just moments before it is robbed; he manages to turn the tables on the robber, but she gets away with his wallet. The store's TV identifies John and his car, so he quickly ditches it, proceeding on foot into an expensive neighborhood. With a sob story about being mugged, he gains entry to the house of Warwick Wilson. John poses as a friend of one of Warwick's friends after he found a postcard in the mailbox outside from a woman named "Julia". Warwick is preparing a dinner party. John makes small talk and drinks red wine while trying to figure out his next move, and how to keep his lies from being found out. When the radio news makes an announcement about John, he angrily shushes Warwick, revealing himself. John threatens to kill Warwick if he doesn't cooperate and forces him to call his guests to cancel. Suddenly, John keels over; the wine has been drugged, and Warwick is not the person he seems.
Youth in Revolt, 1h30
Directed by Miguel Arteta
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Jean Smart, Mary Kay Place, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Long
Roles Music
Rating63% 3.198753.198753.198753.198753.19875
Shy, socially inept teenager Nick Twisp lives with his mother, Estelle, and her boyfriend, Jerry, in Oakland, California. When Jerry owes money to a group of sailors, he takes Estelle and Nick to a trailer park in Clearlake where Nick meets Sheeni Saunders, a bright young woman his age, with an interest in French culture and who shares Nick's musical taste. Despite Sheeni's boyfriend, Trent Preston, they become romantically involved. Nick purchases a dog for Sheeni named Albert (after Albert Camus), but the dog rips up the family bible and Sheeni's parents ban it from the house.