Songcatcher (2001)
1h 49m
Running Time
March 1, 2001Release Date
Plot.
After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia. There she stumbles upon the discovery of her life - a treasure trove of ancient Scots-Irish ballads, songs that have been handed down from generation to generation, preserved intact by the seclusion of the mountains. With the goal of securing her promotion, Lily ventures into the most isolated areas of the mountains to collect the songs and finds herself increasingly enchanted.
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Cast & Crew.
Janet McTeer
Lily Penleric
Gregory Russell Cook
Fate Honeycutt
Michael Harding
Reese Kincaid
Jane Adams
Eleanor 'Elna' Penleric
Michael Davis
Dean Arthur Pembroke
E. Katherine Kerr
Harriet Tolliver
Michael Goodwin
Professor Wallace Aldrich
Emmy Rossum
Deladis Slocumb
Maggie Greenwald
Director
Richard Miller
Producer
Pat Carroll
Viney Butler
Ellen Rigas-Venetis
Producer
Stephanie Roth Haberle
Alice Kincaid
David Mansfield
Composer
Aidan Quinn
Tom Bledsoe
Enrique Chediak
Cinematographer
Bart Hansard
Hilliard
Erin Blake Clanton
Polly
Keith Reamer
Editor
David Patrick Kelly
Earl Giddens
Kristin Hall
Isabel
Taj Mahal
Dexter Speaks
Iris DeMent
Rose Gentry
Rhoda Griffis
Clementine McFarland
Jonathan Sehring
Executive Producer
Caroline Kaplan
Executive Producer
Marthe Pineau
Set Decoration
Jennifer Roth
Co-Producer
Ellen Parks
Casting
Tracy Kilpatrick
Casting
Kasia Walicka Maimone
Costume Design
Molly Mikula
Art Direction
Vivian Hasbrouk
Casting
Ginger Tougas
Production Design
Wendy Sax
Co-Producer
Patrick Allen
Associate Producer
Elizabeth Finkelstein
Associate Producer
Lisa Vandever
Associate Producer
Sheila K. Adams
Vocal Coach
Media.
Details.
Release DateMarch 1, 2001
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 49m
Filming LocationsNorth Carolina, United States of America
Genres
Wiki.
Songcatcher is a 2000 drama film directed by Maggie Greenwald. It is about a musicologist researching and collecting Appalachian folk music in the mountains of western North Carolina. Although Songcatcher is a fictional film, it is loosely based on the work of Olive Dame Campbell, founder of the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina, and that of the English folk song collector Cecil Sharp, portrayed at the end of the film as professor Cyrus Whittle. The film grossed $3 million in limited theatrical release in the United States, which was generally considered as a respectable result for an arthouse film release in 2001.