Christopher Young - Wonder Boys (2000)

Bartje Bartmans
Bartje Bartmans
Oct 14, 2026

Christopher Young (born April 28, 1958) is an American composer of film and television scores. Many of his compositions are for horror and thriller films, including Hellraiser, Species, Urban Legend, The Grudge, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Drag Me to Hell, Sinister, Deliver Us from Evil and Pet Sematary. Other works include Rapid Fire, Copycat, Set It Off, Entrapment, The Hurricane, Swordfish, Ghost Rider, Spider-Man 3, and The Shipping News, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.

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From the Movie: "Wonder Boys" (2000)
Directed by Curtis Hanson. Based on "Wonder Boys" by Michael Chabon
Score orchestrated by Pete Anthony

1. 2M2 "Dog" Revised (0:00)
2. 1M1 Drive from School (3:24)
3. 2M4 Grady Gets Woozy (6:32)
4. 3M3 Sarah in Greenhouse (8:28)

Paramount Recording Studios orchestra conducted by Pete Anthony
Nicholas Ariondo, accordion
Karl Vincent, bass

Christopher Young's soundtrack is built around 9 song writers. The soundtrack features several songs by Bob Dylan, including one new composition, "Things Have Changed," which would win the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Hanson also created a music video for the song, filming new footage of Bob Dylan on the film's various locations and editing it with footage used in Wonder Boys as if Dylan were actually in the film. According to Hanson, "Every song reflects the movie's themes of searching for past promise, future success and a sense of purpose."

"Things Have Changed" - Bob Dylan (5:10)
"A Child's Claim to Fame" - Buffalo Springfield (2:12)
"No Regrets" - Tom Rush (3:52)
"Old Man" - Neil Young (3:23)
"Shooting Star" - Bob Dylan (3:09)
"Reason to Believe" – Tim Hardin (2:00)
"Need Your Love So Bad" - Little Willie John (2:17)
"Not Dark Yet" - Bob Dylan (6:30)
"Slip Away" - Clarence Carter (2:32)
"Waiting for the Miracle" - Leonard Cohen (7:43)
"Buckets of Rain" - Bob Dylan (3:23)
"Watching the Wheels" - John Lennon (3:32)
"Philosophers Stone" - Van Morrison (6:03)