Run, run, run, run, run, run, run…
Opened this week in the UK is David Schwimmer‘s Run, Fat Boy, Run.
Here’s an impressively brief synopsis: Dennis (Simon Pegg), a chunky, layabout waster, jilts Libby (Thandie Newton), his pregnant fiancée, on their wedding day, only to discover — five years later — that she is his one true love. But, in order to win back her affections from smarmy American Whit (Hank Azaria), he looks to finish his first marathon as he goes head-to-head with his super-fit love rival.
That’s Dennis in training in the above still wearing a Let’s Dance T-shirt, ill-fitting shorts and an expression of extreme physical pain. His suffering is eased somewhat by an excellent soundtrack that includes David Bowie’s 1971 Velvet Underground pastiche, Queen Bitch.
Here’s the full tracklisting…
01 Girls And Boys In Love – The Rumble Strips
02 Radio Song – Dirty Pretty Things
03 Queen Bitch – David Bowie
04 Something Kind Of Ooh – Girls Aloud
05 Chelsea Dagger – The Fratellis
06 54-46 Was My Number – Toots & The Maytals
07 Story Problem – The Envy Corps 14.
08 The Concept – Teenage Fanclub
09 Everyday I Love You Less And Less – Kaiser Chiefs
10 I Like That – Air Traffic
11 The Magic Position – Patrick Wolf
12 Better – Tom Baxter
13 Beach Samba – Astrud Gilberto
14 Monkey Man – Amy Winehouse
15 Keep On Running – Goldspot
16 Nice Work If You Can Get it – Bing Crosby
The film is open now in the
Click on the image above to view the trailer.
Speaking of Girls Aloud (track 4) Billy Sloan reports in
Alex said: “I asked Girls Aloud to do the famous ‘doo doo doo doo doo doo’ backing vocals on Sound And Vision. They were in the studio working on their own record so I went next door and asked them. They’re pretty laid back so it was a music marriage made in heaven – the song worked really well.”