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Few filmmakers use music as unabashedly and emotionally as former rock journalist Cameron Crowe , the man who turned Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes” into an enduring emblem of ’80s teen longing and illuminated the power of Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” as a late night bonding tune for even the most estranged of friends. Crowe’s latest, We Bought a Zoo , is no different; the instant the reverberating beats of Tom Petty’s “Don’t Come Around Here No More” kick in, lonely and sparse, turning increasingly anthemic by the verse as Matt Damon’s son is expelled from school and Damon uproots his family to a rural fixer-upper of a zoo with the promise of new beginnings, you know you’re in for yet another Crowe Moment.

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From Say Anything to We Bought a Zoo, a Brief History of Great Cameron Crowe Musical Moments