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
Professor Lily Penleric, PhD

Michael Goodwin
Professor Wallace Aldrich, PhD

Gregory Russell Cook
Fate Honeycutt

Jane Adams
Eleanor 'Elna' Penleric

E. Katherine Kerr
Harriet Tolliver

Emmy Rossum
Deladis Slocumb

Pat Carroll
Viney Butler

Stephanie Roth Haberle
Alice Kincaid

Aidan Quinn
Tom Bledsoe

Bart Hansard
Hilliard

Erin Blake Clanton
Polly

David Patrick Kelly
Earl Giddens

Kristin Hall
Isabel

Michael Harding
Reese Kincaid

Taj Mahal
Dexter Speaks

Iris DeMent
Rose Gentry

Rhoda Griffis
Clementine McFarland

Michael Davis
Dean Arthur Pembroke

Jonathan Sehring
Executive Producer

Marthe Pineau
Set Decoration

Wendy Sax
Co-Producer

Maggie Greenwald
Director / Writer

Ellen Parks
Casting

Elizabeth Finkelstein
Associate Producer

Ginger Tougas
Production Design

Jennifer Roth
Co-Producer

David Mansfield
Original Music Composer

Tracy Kilpatrick
Casting

Molly Mikula
Art Direction

Keith Reamer
Editor

Caroline Kaplan
Executive Producer

Enrique Chediak
Director of Photography

Patrick Allen
Associate Producer

Richard Miller
Producer

Lisa Vandever
Associate Producer

Vivian Hasbrouk
Casting

Kasia Walicka Maimone
Costume Design

Ellen Rigas-Venetis
Producer

Sheila K. Adams
Vocal Coach
Media.

Details.
Release DateMarch 1, 2001
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 49m
Filming LocationsNorth Carolina, United States
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
musical
woman director
Wiki.
Songcatcher is a 2000 American drama film written and 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.
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