Music Composed & Conducted By Thomas Newman - Songs Include :

"Hinge"
"Blue Dimes"
"Crackerland"
"Gypsy Grandma"
"Sometimes You Just Can't Win" - Performed By George Jones
"Baby Kay"
"Sink"
"Reckoning"
"The Picture"
"Moments"
"Horses"
"Blue Moon Revisited" - Performed By Cowboy Junkies
"Flesh And Bone"
"Two Ride Together"
"Surprise"
"Cicadas"
"Ghosts"
"Star Crossed"
"Star Dust" - Performed By Willie Nelson
"Twenty"
"The People In The Picture"
"Lazy J"
"Bruise"
"Everything He Told You" - End Titles

Steve Kloves' Flesh and Bone (1993) is a rare bird indeed, a movie with unassuming depths. A beautiful film, moving and eerie and almost mysterious in its effects, it has a grace and poetry all its own. And it went almost entirely unnoticed by the movie-going public. (Today it is perhaps best known, if known at all, as one of Gwyneth Paltrow's earliest featured roles.) It's easy to see why it disappeared without a trace: it's an incredibly subtle film by any standards, and compared to your average '90s fare, it barely "exists" at all. It's like a phantom, a hazy dream. Watching it is like passing through a roadside town, catching a glimpse of a diner and a bar, and imagining the lives of ordinary folk (never so ordinary as we think); then scratching the surface of their routines, and revealing the turmoil beneath. Flesh and Bone is a real road movie, maybe the best of them all, because it creates a perfect sense of people moving, forever moving, but never actually getting anywhere. The characters in the movie are like fish in a barrel, like flies in a sun-drenched room; their movement is central to who they are as people, and also to the meaning and the structure of the film, which is about rootlessness: a lack of having any place to go. All the characters in Flesh and Bone are restless; they are searching for something without knowing, or especially caring, what. They are simply moving because they cannot bear to remain still; like blood in the veins, perhaps.

From THE BLOOD POETS, by Jake Horsley
[...]

She's scary, she's going to hurt you and you can't take your eyes off of her. James Caan's menace comes across as very real and horrifying. Some people are just no good and need to be taken seriously. This is a quiet, very sad and scary movie. Meg Ryan did a good job but it didn't change her image. Dennis Quaid as always was very good. Gwyneth Paltrow was scary but a relief everytime she had a scene. She was that smart and that pretty in this movie. I have no idea what Emma and Shakespeare in Love are like and I don't want to know but this movie showed early on why she gets picked for movies with strong directors.

Before Brangelina there was Mennis...for the most beautiful on (and off screen) couple was Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan. This was the third installment in the 'Dennis-Meg' film triligy and it's a pretty good one at that. 'Flesh and Bone' serves up a decent thriller with some very good acting all the way around. Dennis Quaid plays Arlis, a man tormented daily by the memories of his terrible childhood. He wears this torment etched across his face at all times (if you want to know who Heath Ledger gets his Ennis Del Mar from just watch Dennis here...it's uncanny). He is a drifter, moving around constantly restocking vending machines for a living in an attempt to forget where he came from. After having a fall out with her husband, Kay (Meg Ryan) falls into his life bringing home an uncomfortable disturbance in Arlis' all to routine life. You see, Kay is running from a past that Arlis is connected to in a way he would have never guessed, and it's not until Arlis' 'evil' father Roy (Caan in a brutally frightening performance) shows up with his partner in crime Ginnie (Paltrow in a scene stealing role) that their pasts are revieled. The final few frames of this film are intence and surreal as you watch Arlis confront the demons he's been running from and take action towards redemption. Brilliantly scripted, directed and acted this is surely one that will please the viewer.

Both Quaid and Ryan demonstrate the reasons why they've become so respected among members of their craft. The film is well conceived, well acted, well directed.