MovieScore Media revisits one of the classic tales of American literature with the new adaptation of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, scored by London-based Hungarian composer Robert Gulya. Directed by Jo Kastner, the story follows the classic Mark Twain story as our teenaged heroes witness a murder and must keep the secret in order to stay alive. When an innocent man is sentenced to death, Tom comes clean about the murder, but a mysterious treasure and the escape of the real killer Injun Joe make things all the more complicated...

Robert Gulya's score for Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn delivers exactly what you'll be expecting, and you wouldn't want it any other way. There's a quirky, modern Western vibe to the tracks and I defy anyone to listen to this and not be transported back to their own childhood. I also couldn't help notice, especially in the opening track 'Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn', that there was a slight element of the Superhero-esque themes that have recently overrun Hollywood's movie output.

On occasion I was reminded of James Newton Howard's score for Snow White & the Huntsman. The album contains 15 tracks (54 min, 26 sec) and Gulya does an impressive job of using the score to create visual images in the listener's head. While I haven't seen the movie, I could already picture scenes and images from the 1979 Huckleberry Finn and His Friends TV series that I grew up with - so timeless is the story.

This is a wonderful score that incorporates a good many interesting themes.

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Darren Rea