Curtis Moore and Matthew Brookshire composed and produced several songs for the film Palindromes by acclaimed writer/director Todd Solondz (Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness). The film stars Ellen Barkin and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
In the film, a group of adopted children from an ultra-conservative Christian family form a teen-pop band, known as the Sunshine Singers. Think: N*SYNC meets the New Christy Minstrels, circa 1997.
Variety announces that three songs from the Todd Solondz film, Palindromes, have made the final elegibility list of 42 songs for consideration for the original song Oscar. Trickybox songwriters Curtis Moore and Matthew Brookshire, along with Eytan Mirsky wrote, produced, and performed the songs.
"Half ’NSync, half Polyphonic Spree--spirited songs with lyrics like 'Everybody has a right to be born.' This Solondz tableau isn’t designed to induce snickers—the music is catchy and the kids are charming, no matter what you think of their ‘message.’"
New York Magazine
"…and when we see them perform the catchy-creepy teen-pop number 'This Is the Way (That Jesus Made Us),' the layers of irony are head-spinning."
Entertainment Weekly
"When he shows us those handicapped Christian kids singing and boogying away, you’re not sure whether to laugh, be outraged, or burst into tears."
Vogue
"It might be the single most disturbing scene I've seen in a movie in several years."
Salon.com
