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Songcatcher is a american film of genre Drama directed by Maggie Greenwald released in USA on 15 june 2001 with Janet McTeer

Songcatcher (2001)

Songcatcher
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Released in USA 15 june 2001
Length 1h49
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Musical theatre,    Musical
Rating72% 3.642753.642753.642753.642753.64275

Songcatcher is a 2000 drama film 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.

Synopsis

In 1907, Dr. Lily Penleric (Janet McTeer), a professor of musicology, is denied a promotion at the university where she teaches. She impulsively visits her sister Eleanor (Jane Adams), who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia. There, she discovers a treasure trove of traditional English ballads, which have been preserved by the secluded mountain people since the colonial period of the 1600s and 1700s. Lily decides to record and transcribe the songs and share them with the outside world.

Actors

Janet McTeer

(Professor Lily Penleric, PhD)
Aidan Quinn

(Tom Bledsoe)
Jane Adams

(Eleanor 'Elna' Penleric)
Emmy Rossum

(Deladis Slocumb)
Pat Carroll

(Viney Butler)
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