While getting ready to come to work this morning, I heard the Crowded House song “Don’t Dream It’s Over” and had a very strong sense that I had heard that song used over the closing credits of a movie or TV show.
I searched IMDb and the only one of the five hits I found that looked familiar was the 1994 mini-series of The Stand. Not having ready access to this, I thought I’d ask if anybody out there with a better recollection of it than I (or ready access to check it out) could verify that this song is, indeed, used over the closing credits of one of the parts of the mini-series.
Harold and Frannie listened to that song on a record player. I think that was the end of part one, so it might have continued playing during the credits as well.
Right after Frannie and Harold buried Frannie’s dad, they were sitting in her living room, drinking lemonade, maybe? She brought in some records she found that she thought might cheer them up. Don’t Dream It’s Over was the one she picked to play. IIRC, KGS is correct in that it was the very first part of Part II rather than the last of Part I.
I still don’t have that “Ah HA!” feeling that I’ve definitely found what I was thinking of, but since it was a fairly free-floating sense of deja vu anyway, I probably shouldn’t get too picky.
In the scene where this is played, Frannie rests her head on Harold’s lap and the image of them is cut with images meant to convey the astounding magnitude of what the plague has wrought. Empty beaches, some kid’s teddy bear floating in the water, that kind of thing. It seems as if they are taking a moment to mourn the enormous loss of almost every human being in the world, before moving on to their respective roles in the later battle between good and evil. It is a very profound scene. It gave me shivers when I saw it and now whenever I hear the song I think of that movie.