S.F.W. (So Fucking What?) is a comedy drama film directed by Jefery Levy and starring by Stephen Dorff and Reese Witherspoon. The film was based on the Andrew Wellman‘s novel and adapted by Danny Rubin and Levy. It was released on September 15, 1994 by A&M Films and Polygram. The plot is about an alienated and misanthropic teenager gains sudden and unwanted celebrity status after he’s taken hostage by terrorists where his indifference to their threats to kill him makes news headlines.
S.F.W. Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released on CD on September 27, 1994 by A&M Records. The soundtrack album contains 13 tracks, with two of them, S.F.W. and Spab ‘N‘ Janet Evening/The Green Room, being written especially for this movie. The director, when discussing the soundtrack, stated “In a way this story parallels what happened to (Kurt) Cobain. It’s a movie about a regular kid (Stephen Dorff) with an extraordinary sensitivity.” Levy wanted to include Nirvana‘s All Apologies and asked Cobain to screen a rough cut of the film. While he states that “Kurt really responded to the movie”, Levy missed getting permission to include the song due to Cobain‘s death. The soundtrack does include Teenage Whore, a tune by Kurt‘s widow Courtney Love and her band Hole.
Tracklist:
- Jesus Christ Pose (Soundgarden)
- Get Your Gunn (Marilyn Manson)
- Can I Stay? (Pretty Mary Sunshine)
- Teenage Whore (Hole)
- Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Monster Magnet)
- Like Suicide (Acoustic Version) (Chris Cornell)
- No Fuck’n Problem (Suicidal Tendencies)
- Surrender (cover of Cheap Trick song) (Paw)
- Creep (Radiohead)
- Two at a Time (Cop Shoot Cop)
- Say What You Want (Babes in Toyland)
- S.F.W. (GWAR)
- Spab ‘N’ Janet Evening/The Green Room(Graeme Revell)
Other songs featured in the film but not on the soundtrack:
Stephen Dorff: Spabs Theme
Rainbow : A Light in the Black
Mantissa: Mary Mary
Therapy?: Speedball
