Songcatcher (Signature Series) PG-13

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Songcatcher (Signature Series)
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DVD Details

  • Rated: PG-13
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 49 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: June 3, 2003
  • Originally Released: 2001
  • Label: Lions Gate

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 2,473
A wonderfully crafted movie in a minor key.
Orlando Sentinel
Aug 24, 2001
...McTeer is superb as always, the tunes are lovely, and the scenery is very pretty indeed...
Premiere
Jul 1, 2001
Like the main character, it's stodgy and didactic -- and full of grace and surprises. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Apr 24, 2012
Rating: 3/4 -- Tall, big-boned Janet McTeer ... is the ideal actress to play Lily Penleric. Full Review
San Francisco Chronicle
Aug 2, 2001
A beautifully crafted story about a time and place rarely captured on film. Full Review
CNN.com
Jul 16, 2001
Rating: 4.5/5 -- In this exceptional film, mercifully free of the usual warm and fuzzy movie sentimentality, director Maggie Greenwald and her fine cast shatter most hillbilly stereotypes. Full Review
TV Guide
Jul 30, 2003
Songcatcher unfolds at a leisurely but enjoyable pace, its dramatic contrivances never pushed too hard by director Maggie Greenwald.
Variety
Mar 27, 2009

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).

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  • UPC: 031398834427
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