Celebrated Composer Stephen Endelman Reunites With Oscar®-nominated Director on the Crime-Thriller Rob the Mob! Celebrated composer Stephen Endelman reteams with Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Raymond De Felitta (City Island, Bronx Cheers) on the crime thriller Rob the Mob starring Andy Garcia, Ray Romano and Michael Pitt. Rob the Mob follows the true story of Thomas and Rosemarie Uva, two lovers who take their passion for audacious heists to another level by robbing New York City Mafia social clubs. Endelman was drawn to the film because he lived in New York City during the actual incidents in 1991. Millennium Entertainment will release Rob the Mob on March 21. Endelman began his working relationship with De Felitta on the film Two Family House. Endelmans re-collaboration with De Felitta on Rob the Mob was a rather unique, creative working experience as the director opted to edit the film in the composers Los Angeles studio, thus skipping the music-temping process that is typically associated with a score. In creating the music, Endelman wasnt influenced by the gangster genre, rather the passionate romance between the films two wild and innocent protagonists. One of the first scenes I became inspired by is when Tommy (Pitt) visits his mother (Cathy Moriarty) after he is sprung from prison followed by a second scene where Tommy proposes to Rosy (Nina Arianda). Such emotional moments became the springboard to a cohesive, thematic score, explains Endelman. While Endelman wove a piano-string melodic score in Rob the Mob, he also added some eclectic percussion for the action scenes, venturing to a prison cell where he recorded metallic sounds, i.e. the slamming of a cell door, the scraping of bars and the flipping of a toilet seat. The need to add percussion was driven by the action-filled robbery scenes. In addition, Endelman also wrote the end-credits song Love and the Gun, a tune which evokes 60s and spy cinema themes and Italian pop fare. The song was recorded in English and Italian and is performed by New York jazz singer Tamela DAmico. Endelman, a British composer based in Los Angeles, gained scoring notoriety on indie films including The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, Household Saints and Jeffrey before composing for Oscar®-lauded filmmakers David O. Russell (Flirting With Disaster), Irwin Winkler (Home of the Brave), David Mamet (Redbelt) and Bruce Beresford (Evelyn). As the soundtrack producer on Winklers film De-Lovely, Endelman arranged a number of classic Cole Porter tunes, culminating in a Grammy nomination for his work
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