Known for Sound
John Swihart (born 1964) is an American musical composer for film and television. Some of his best known scores include the films Napoleon Dynamite (2004), Employee of the Month (2006), Youth in Revolt (2009), and television shows How I Met Your Mother (2005 - 2014), and Go On (2012 - 2013). Swihart was raised in Bloomington, Indiana, the adopted son of a physicist based at Indiana University. He attended Berklee College of Music, in Boston, graduating in 1986. Prior to becoming a film and television composer, he performed in shows as a multi-instrumentalist for the Blue Man Group.
Birthplace
Mt. Kisco, New York, USA
Filmography
47 films, 6 shows


The Other Zoey
2023 · 1h 31m · US
Highly intelligent computer major Zoey Miller is uninterested in romantic love, but her life is turned upside down when Zack, the school's soccer star, gets amnesia and mistakes Zoey for his girlfriend.


Dinner in America
2022 · 1h 48m · US
An on-the-lam punk rocker and a young woman obsessed with a local band go on an unexpected and epic journey together through the decaying suburbs of the American Midwest.


The Violent Heart
2020 · 1h 42m · US
Fifteen years after the murder of his older sister, taciturn Daniel finds himself falling for Cassie, a vivacious high school senior in this southern gothic-inspired Romeo & Juliet story set in the American heartland.


The Bay of Silence
2020 · 1h 33m · UK
Will believes his wife Rosalind is innocent of their son's suspected murder, only to discover the devastating truth behind her past links her to another unsolved crime.


The Fanatic
2019 · 1h 29m · UK
A rabid film fan stalks his favorite action hero and destroys the star's life.


Ideal Home
2018 · 1h 31m · UK
A couple is going through marital troubles made worse when a previously unknown grandson shows up.


Table 19
2017 · 1h 27m · US
Eloise, having been relieved of maid of honor duties after being unceremoniously dumped by the best man via text, decides to attend the wedding anyway – only to find herself seated with five fellow-unwanted guests at the dreaded Table 19.


First Girl I Loved
2016 · 1h 31m · US
Seventeen-year-old Anne just fell in love with Sasha, the most popular girl at her L.A. public high school. But when Anne tells her best friend, Clifton—who has always harbored a secret crush on her—he does his best to get in the way.


Staten Island Summer
2015 · 1h 48m · US
Pals Danny and Frank spend the summer after high school working as lifeguards while figuring out their future.


Accidental Love
2015 · 1h 41m · US
A small town waitress gets a nail accidentally lodged in her head causing unpredictable behavior that leads her to Washington, DC. Sparks fly when she meets a clueless young senator who takes up her cause - but what happens when love interferes with what you stand for?


The Young Kieslowski
2014 · 1h 34m · US
Grand romantic gestures need not apply in this comedic tale of star-crossed young love. Instead, freshman Brian Kieslowski displays endless reserves of bumbling awkwardness as he goes home with a girl for the first time... and then learns that he got her pregnant... with twins... all while she's going through a rather inconvenient Christianity phase. Could it be that being the good guy and doing what's right are two very different things?


Odd Thomas
2013 · 1h 37m · US
In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.


For a Good Time, Call...
2012 · 1h 27m · US
College "frenemies" Lauren and Katie move in together after losing a relationship and rent control, respectively. Sharing Katie's late grandmother's apartment in New York City, the girls bicker with each other until one fateful night, when Katie's noisy bedroom activities make Lauren barge in and discover a dirty little secret. This revelation brings them closer together, and Lauren (the brains) and Katie (the talent) concoct a wildly successful business venture. As profits swell, the girls reevaluate their hopes and dreams and realize that just because someone pees in your hair in college doesn't mean she won't be your best friend 10 years later.


Flypaper
2011 · 1h 27m · DE
A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at a bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love.


Lucky
2011 · 1h 43m · US
A wannabe serial killer wins the lottery and pursues his lifelong crush.


The Other Woman
2010 · 1h 38m · US
Emilia, a law-school graduate, falls in love with her married boss, Jack. After Emilia marries Jack, her happiness turns unexpectedly to grief following the death of her infant daughter. Devastated, Emilia nonetheless carries on, attempting to forge a connection with her stepson William and to resist the interference of Jack's jealous ex-wife.


The Perfect Host
2010 · 1h 33m · US
Warwick Wilson is the consummate host. He carefully prepares for a dinner party, the table impeccably set and the duck perfectly timed for 8:30 p.m. John Taylor is a career criminal. He’s just robbed a bank and needs to get off the streets. He finds himself on Warwick’s doorstep posing as a friend of a friend, new to Los Angeles, who’s been mugged and lost his luggage.


Cheech & Chong's Hey Watch This
2010 · 1h 23m · US
A documentary based on Cheech and Chong's "Light Up America" reunion tour.


Youth in Revolt
2009 · 1h 29m · US
As a fan of Albert Camus and Jean-Luc Godard, teenage Nick Twisp is definitely out of his element when his mother and her boyfriend move the family to a trailer park. When a pretty neighbor named Sheeni plays records by French crooners, it's love at first sight for frustrated and inexperienced Nick. Learning that she is dating someone, Nick launches a hilarious quest to find his way into Sheeni's heart -- and bed.


New in Town
2009 · 1h 37m · US
Lucy Hill is an ambitious up-and-coming executive living in Miami. She loves her shoes, her cars, and climbing the corporate ladder. When she is offered a temporary assignment — in the middle of nowhere — to restructure a manufacturing plant, she jumps at the opportunity, knowing that a big promotion is close at hand. What begins as a straightforward assignment becomes a life-changing experience as Lucy discovers greater meaning in her life and, most unexpectedly, the man of her dreams.


Spread
2009 · 1h 38m · US
A gigolo must contend with the prospect that he has found true love.


Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach
2009 · 1h 27m · US
An overenthusiastic high-school maintenance man attempts to lead an unlikely group of misfits to the Nebraska state tennis championship in Balls Out: The Gary Houseman Story? director Danny Leiner's underdog sports comedy. American Pie star Seann William Scott stars as the ambitious janitor who believes he has what it takes to coach the winning team.


Garden Party
2008 · 1h 28m · US
Are you young, sexually confused, just trying to get by? Do you sing, dance or possess some other talent? Welcome to the Garden Party. At the center of the story is 15-year-old April. She is running from one bad situation into another, hoping to find an answer that doesn't involve taking off her clothes.


The Last Word
2008 · 1h 30m · US
When an eccentric poet who makes a living ghostwriting suicide notes falls for the free-spirited sister of his latest client, he must desperately maintain a web of lies to conceal how he knew her deceased brother.


Just Add Water
2008 · 1h 35m · US
An offbeat romantic comedy about a decent guy, Ray Tuckby, with a dead-end life in the dead-end town of Trona, CA. After encouragement from a stranger whom he happens upon, Ray begins to dream again. He sheds the parasites in his life, musters the nerve to pursue his childhood love, and finally takes back his community by toppling the local teenage Meth-baron.


The Year of Getting to Know Us
2008 · 1h 30m · US
A commitment-phobic man reunites with his estranged, ailing father and comes to terms with his own childhood.


Randy & the Mob
2007 · 1h 31m · US
A good ol' boy (McKinnon) gets into trouble with some mobsters, and then must seek assistance from his estranged, identical twin gay brother.


The Brothers Solomon
2007 · 1h 33m · US
A pair of well-meaning, but socially inept brothers try to find their perfect mates in order to provide their dying father with a grandchild.


The Education of Charlie Banks
2007 · 1h 40m · US
College student Charlie Banks has to face old problems when the bully he had an unpleasant encounter with back in high school shows up on his campus.


One Last Dance
2007 · 1h 48m · SG
T is a legendary killer operating in Singapore. His victims enter his life via a small red envelope in his mailbox. T is a professional killer: calm and cold-blooded, he is capable of all the violence necessary for his job. T's life is turned upside down when an important businessman hires him to kill all the criminals involved in his son's kidnapping.


Employee of the Month
2006 · 1h 43m · US
When he hears that the new female employee digs ambitious men who are the store employee of the month, a slacker gets his act together but finds himself in competition with his rival, an ambitious co-worker.


Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas
2006 · 1h 19m · US
When his journal of bright ideas is stolen, college freshman Bickford Schmeckler has to blanket the campus in order to locate it.


The Sasquatch Gang
2006 · 1h 28m · US
Young fantasy and science fiction aficionado Gavin Gore and his friends stumble onto some huge footprints in the woods. A local cop, reporter, and a renowned Sasquatch authority investigate, while two of Gavin's dim-witted neighbors hatch a scheme to profit from the situation.


Daltry Calhoun
2005 · 1h 40m · US
In small town Tennessee, a ne'er-do-well man wrestling for control over his fading golf club is reunited with his estranged daughter, a 14-year-old musical prodigy.


Our Very Own
2005 · 1h 46m · US
In 1978, five teenagers in Shelbyville, Tennessee look to meet the actress Sondra Locke, who's rumored to return to town for the local premiere of her big Hollywood movie.


Inheritance
2005 · 9m · US
In an impassioned message from the grave, one concentration camp Liberator forces us to remember the horror humanity is capable of. Utilizing actual photos from the Buchenwald concentration camp, and a soulful performance by Harrison Young, Inheritance is a gut-wrenching experience that not only informs, but puts the burden of defending humanity squarely on the viewer.


Napoleon Dynamite
2004 · 1h 35m · US
A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.


Purgatory House
2003 · 1h 37m · US
An inside glimpse of how it feels to be a teen in today's disconnected world. PURGATORY HOUSE chronicles the after-life journey of Silver Strand: a lonely teen who abandons her life of turmoil and drug addiction, only to find herself caught somewhere between heaven and hell. There, she must choose whether she will accept her drab existence or discover within herself the power to change.