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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Maggie Greenwald |
| Stars: |
Janet McTeer |
| Actors: |
Jane Adams |
| Genre: |
Dramas |
| MPAA Rating: |
PG-13 (MPAA) |
| Available Formats: |
VHS: Spanish Subtitled |
| UPC: |
031398834427 |
| Release Date: |
2001 |
| Running Time: |
1hr 53min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD, 1hr 49min
Release Company: Trimark Home Video (October 23, 2001)
UPC: 031398754329 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS: Spanish Subtitled, 1hr 49min
Release Company: Trimark Home Video (October 23, 2001)
UPC: 031398754237 |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Maggie Greenwald |
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Professional Reviews
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(06/15/2001, p.8, Kenneth Turan): "...SONGCATCHER is fully aware of the power and vitality of its songs..." |
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| Details: |
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. <br> <br> 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 i... |
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