Songcatcher |  | Director: Maggie Greenwald
Actors: Janet McTeer, Michael Davis, Michael Goodwin, Greg Russell Cook, Jane Adams
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Rating:  147 reviews
Sales Rank: 4051
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 109 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 4.7 x 0.6
MPN: VMMD7543D
ISBN: 1588173054
UPC: 031398754329
EAN: 9781588173058
ASIN: B00005O0SO
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
Release Date: October 23, 2001
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Product Description
When musicologist doctor lily penleric is passed over for a prominent teaching position she leaves the city to visit her sister in the beautifully rugged mountains of appalachia. It is here she discovers a wellspring of emotional tunes passed down from the original irish and scottish immigrants. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 05/25/2004 Starring: Janet Mcteer Jane Adams Run time: 109 minutes Rating: Pg13
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Hauntingly beautiful folk music and stunning Appalachian scenery take center stage in this winner of the 2000 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize for outstanding ensemble performance. Musicologist Dr. Lily Penleric has a deep love of English folk ballads. After a humiliating failure to make full professor, she heads off to visit her sister's tiny school in rural Appalachia and finds herself in folk music central. Lily is entranced, but the locals are suspicious of the outlander's motivations. Issues of tolerance, clashing cultures, and Big Bad Men abound, but Songcatcher wisely focuses on the music. Janet McTeer does fine with the "repressed academic gets in touch with the earth" role, but her truly outstanding work is in revealing scholar Lily's rapture in her discoveries. McTeer leads a truly great cast, including the wonderful Pat Carroll, and a just-for-the-hell-of-it cameo by bluesman Taj Mahal. Songcatcher has a healthy respect for the mountain people it portrays, and an absolute reverence for their music. --Ali Davis
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 Vintage Music January 25, 2010
Valerie D. Beasley (ky, usa)
Picked this movie up years ago, and it has became a favorite for me. I have shared this wonderful movie with many people and they all have love it also. I would recommend to all ages. A lovely family movie. The music is awesome, classic appalachia songs, that where brought from other countries.
The hills have ears January 25, 2010
Andreas Faust (Tasmanian Autonomous Zone)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Loosely based on the real life story of Olive Campbell, 'Songcatcher' is the story of Lily Panleric, a priggish but well-meaning American academic who adores the folk music of the British Isles, training her students to appreciate the emotional purity that folk music possesses. When she is denied a coveted music professorship, she packs it in and decides to visit her sister who runs a ragged school in the Appalachian mountains. She then discovers the locals know a huge store of English folk ballads like 'Barbry Allen', and in versions even purer than survive in England. This leads to some interesting debate with the locals on whether the music should be shared with outsiders, or whether that would compromise its purity. Eventually she convinces them, and sets out to capture the music on wax phonograph cylinders (this being pre-vinyl 1907).
From an artistic perspective 'Songcatcher' isn't a very good film (mediocre acting and Hollywood-style melodrama) but that isn't the reason you should watch it. The reason to watch it is the subject matter, the beauty of the songs, and the store of ancestral memories they contain.
Awesome December 9, 2009
M.N. (south, USA)
AWESOME MOVIE. FANTASTIC look into the old timey ways of mountain folks. The
dvd extras are great too, with singing and different stuff. Just great.
songcatcher November 13, 2009
K.Roberts
I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this movie,the 'hill songs' were captivating both the words, and meaning behind them and how beautiful they sounded.The struggle of the miners to live and keep their land and still feed their children was moving.I highly recommend this to anyone my husband watched it with me and even he liked it.
 Too bad November 9, 2009
big on reading (VA)
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
Wonderful music and we will buy the soundtrack. But the movie could have been good if it weren't for the lesbianism (most of us do NOT want to see it portrayed on screen in such a flamboyant way), feminism, and dull ending. It's too bad they messed up what could have been a well made film.
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