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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 49 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 23, 2001
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Aidan Quinn & Janet McTeer | |
Performer: | Pat Carroll, Jane Adams, Taj Mahal, Muse Watson, Greg Russell Cooke, Emmy Rossum, E. Katherine Kerr, Iris Dement & David Patrick Kelly | |
Directed by | Maggie Greenwald | |
Edited by | Keith Reamer | |
Screenwriting by | Maggie Greenwald | |
Composition by | David Mansfield | |
Produced by | Ellen Rigas-Venetis, Jonathan Sehring, Caroline Kaplan & Richard Miller | |
Director of Photography: | Enrique Chediak |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
the presentation [of mountain music]evokes its deep emotions and a beauty that comes from life experience, not the pre-packaged pap courtesy of slick marketing types.
Full Review
Killer Movie Reviews
...SONGCATCHER is fully aware of the power and vitality of its songs...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 3/4 --
Tall, big-boned Janet McTeer ... is the ideal actress to play Lily Penleric.
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San Francisco Chronicle
...Panoramic breadth and a rich gallery of well-defined characters....McTeer gives another splendid portrayal...
Movieline's Hollywood Life
Songcatcher unfolds at a leisurely but enjoyable pace, its dramatic contrivances never pushed too hard by director Maggie Greenwald.
Variety
...McTeer is superb as always, the tunes are lovely, and the scenery is very pretty indeed...
Premiere
Rating: 2/4 --
Never overcomes its overly familiar story and structure, even with some catchy traditional music generously spread throughout.
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TheMovieReport.com
Product Description:
1907. Musicologist Dr Lily Penleric (Janet McTeer) is displeased to find she has been passed over for a promotion at her East Coast University. She sets off for the southern Appalachians where her sister Elna (Jane Adams) runs a school with her friend Harriet (E. Katherine Kerr). Lily is excited to discover that the mountain women sing pure versions of old British folk songs. She starts to collect the songs--at first writing them down; then recording them on very cumbersome equipment.
Scriptwriter/director Maggie Greenwald has loosely based her movie on the songcatchers who uncovered the Appalachian-British folk song connection in the late 1910s. Greenwald and the regal Janet McTeer make Lily Penleric an aloof woman who at first sees the songs as specimens to be collected scientifically. Then gradually, Lily is drawn into the drama of the women's mountain lives--their joy and sadness, their hard fought existence, their men and their infidelities, their tolerance and intolerance. And, as she is drawn in, Lily begins to fall in love with the performers, particularly the feisty matriarch Viney Butler (Pat Carroll), and the orphan Deladis Slocumb (Emmy Rossum, a 13-year-old with an astonishing voice who makes a notable film debut).
Scriptwriter/director Maggie Greenwald has loosely based her movie on the songcatchers who uncovered the Appalachian-British folk song connection in the late 1910s. Greenwald and the regal Janet McTeer make Lily Penleric an aloof woman who at first sees the songs as specimens to be collected scientifically. Then gradually, Lily is drawn into the drama of the women's mountain lives--their joy and sadness, their hard fought existence, their men and their infidelities, their tolerance and intolerance. And, as she is drawn in, Lily begins to fall in love with the performers, particularly the feisty matriarch Viney Butler (Pat Carroll), and the orphan Deladis Slocumb (Emmy Rossum, a 13-year-old with an astonishing voice who makes a notable film debut).
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