Romulus (Samuel L. Jackson) is a homeless man who dwells in a cave in one of New York City’s parks, but was once a promising composer. When a boy is discovered dead on Valentine’s Day, everyone assumes he froze to death, but Romulus believes he was murdered by noted photographer David Leppenraub (Colm Feore). He struggles to convince everyone, including his police officer daughter — but, inspired by hallucinations of his late wife, he eventually gets his chance to crack the case himself.

“The Caveman’s Valentine finds composer Terence Blanchard teaming up again with director Kasi Lemmons and actor Samuel L. Jackson, with whom he worked previously on Eve’s Bayou. This time, the score presents a special challenge in that the main character of the film, Romulus Ledbetter, played by Jackson, is supposed to be a classically trained pianist who is also slightly crazy. On top of that, the movie is a mystery/thriller. Add up those plot elements, and Blanchard was faced with composing a piano-based, classically informed score full of dramatic and suspenseful passages, which might have seemed quite a task for a musician still best known as a jazz trumpeter. Running slightly more than an hour, this soundtrack album presents 28 musical cues from the film, many of which are brief passages meant to support the developments of the story.” ALLMUSIC.COM