The Way Home
I've always felt like the most beautiful stories are the true ones. And The Way Home is as true a story as you'll find.
The Way Home is the story of a family whose faith and resolve is tested beyond belief when their two-year-old son goes missing in the West Georgia wilderness. Lance W. Dreesen's script was not based on true events, as most true story films are, but is an exact retelling of what happened on that fateful day, in the same places where it happened, to the same people who it happened to. No padded story-lines or Hollywood clichés. Just the absolute factual story that occurred in exactly the way we see it unfold onscreen. Dean Cain (Lois and Clark) stars alongside Sonny Shroyer (The Dukes of Hazard), Brett Rice (Remember the Titans), Lori Beth Edgeman (Get Low; The Crazies), and Tom Nowicki (The Blind Side).
The music for The Way Home was recorded with a wonderful string group, a smattering of live horns and woodwinds, and piano and percussion played by me at the Musicave. Director Lance W. Dreesen and I decided early that there would be no electronic sounds in the score at all. None. Therefore, everything you hear that could be interpreted as electronic pulses or digital glitchy effects are actually random recordings that I did all over Los Angeles county with a digital flash recorder of me playing various oil drums, electrical towers, cyclone fences, railroad trestles, and construction site metals and then coming back to the Musicave and fashioning them into the score as rhythmic under-beds to provide a groundwork for the orchestra on top.