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Columbia Records/Sony Music Soundtrax released "Riding In Cars With Boys -- Music From The Motion Picture" on October 16, 2001. "Riding In Cars With Boys" opened nationwide on Friday, October 19th. The film -- a dramatic/comedic adaptation, written by Beverly Donofrio and Morgan Upton Ward, of Donofrio's autobiographical book "Riding In Cars With Boys: Confessions Of A Bad Girl Who Makes Good" -- stars Drew Barrymore, Steve Zahn, Brittany Murphy, Adam Garcia, Lorraine Bracco, James Woods, Sara Gilbert, Desmond Harrington, Peter Facinelli and Marisa Ryan. "Riding In Cars With Boys" marks the first collaboration between director Penny Marshall and producer James Brooks since 1988's smash comedy "Big."

Beginning in 1960 (when the young Beverly Donofrio character -- initially portrayed by Mika Boorem -- is 10), "Riding In Cars With Boys" follows Beverly's turbulent life path as played by Drew Barrymore (who, in a remarkable performance, ages from 15 to 36 over the course of the film). In this fresh, funny and very moving film, Beverly goes through a series of emotional and spiritual transformations, mirrored in the carefully selected musical tracks on the movie's soundtrack. Finding herself an unwed teenage mother of a son, she experiences the co-dependent maelstrom of marriage to a drug addict -- played by Steve Zahn ("Reality Bites," "That Thing You Do!," "You've Got Mail") -- before divorcing him, going on and off welfare, and following her dream of becoming a writer.

The songs chosen for "Riding In Cars With Boys -- Music From The Motion Picture" reflect changes in both Beverly's character and the cultural milieu in which she moves. Beginning with the pre-adolescent innocence of the Everly Brothers' "All I Have To Do Is Dream" and culminating with the Cyndi Lauper's anthem of hedonist feminine empowerment "Girls Just Want To Have Fun," the soundtrack follows the trajectory of romance from first crush through the pain of heartbreak to self-actualization while echoing the mood and personality of an America shifting from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Tracks on "Riding In Cars With Boys -- Music From The Motion Picture" include:

• 1. The Everly Brothers -- "All I Have To Do Is Dream"
  
• 2. Sonny & Cher -- "I Got You Babe"
  
• 3. Jelly Beans -- "I Wanna Love Him So Bad"
  
• 4. Billy Joe Royal -- "Down In The Boondocks"
  
• 5. The Chiffons -- "One Fine Day"
  
• 6. Sir Douglas Quintet -- "She's About a Mover"
  
• 7. Big Brother & The Holding Company -- "Piece Of My Heart"
  
• 8. Skeeter Davis -- "End Of The World"
  
• 9. The Five Stairsteps -- "O-o-h Child"
  
• 10. Vic Damone -- "Cincinnati Dancing Pig"
  
• 11. Rare Earth -- "I Just Want To Celebrate"
  
• 12. Cyndi Lauper -- "Girls Just Want To Have Fun"
  
• 13. Hans Zimmer and Heitor Pereira -- "Our Little Bit Of Score"
  
  
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Source: Columbia Records