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Originally posted by Sara:
This came from Huntaway Films website. Hopefully its all pretty self explanatory -

PERFECT STRANGERS DELIVERED
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Neil Finn has written music for the film which has attracted significant interest and sales in a number of territories. Fox has acquired the rights for Australia and New Zealand.

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Perfect Strangers
Three of New Zealand's best known recording artists performed together for the first time on the set of the feature film "Perfect Strangers" starring Sam Neill and Rachael Blake.

Don McGlashan (the Mutton Birds), Barry Saunders (the Warratahs) and Hammond Gamble (Street Talk) each contributed a song to the soundtrack of the film. As the songs are performed in a series of pub scenes in the movie director Gaylene Preston asked the guys if they would like to front the band. Together with drummer Ross Burge and accordianist Alan Norman they spent two days on set shooting the scenes as fictional band "The Blackouts" performing the Mutton Birds "Anchor Me", Hammond's "Leaving The Country" and "Wind In The Pines" from the new Barry Saunders CD "Red Morning" which is currently receiving rave reviews around the country.

Mana is supervising music for Perfect Strangers, a romantic thriller about a pair of unconventional lovers in what has been described as a darkly funny, deadly serious film.

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Perfect Strangers has a mythic quality. I wanted the scored music track to inhabit the underbelly of the story as well as to enhance the emotional journeys. Experienced in both jazz, rock and classical music, PLAN 9 are composers comfortable in counter-pointing the romantic against the deeply unnerving, working alongside sound designer TIM PREBBLE to move realities - sometimes, the birdsong is real, sometimes musically enhanced in a soundtrack I wanted to be dynamic yet delicate. The score and the effects cut across traditional boundaries creating a unique sound track that conjures up old-fashioned romanticism but with a cutting edge contemporary sound.

DON McGLASHAN has contributed a new and haunting version of �Anchor Me,� HAMMOND GAMBLE has beefed up �Leaving the Country,� and Crowded House contribute �You�re not the Girl You Think You Are� which was first recommended to me by Sam during our rehearsal time. The theme song �Recognise a Stranger�s Face,� was written by PLAN 9 with JAY CASSELLS our associate producer contributing to the lyrics. NEIL FINN brought �All Shall Be Well,� with lyrics by MICHAEL LEUNIG � a small prayer for Melanie as she loses sight of reality and drifts into madness.