Songcatcher

Product Description After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia. There she stumbles upon the discovery of her life - a treasure trove of ancient Scots-Irish ballads, songs that have been handed down from generation to generation, preserved intact by the seclusion of the mountains. With the goal of securing her promotion, Lily ventures into the most isolated areas of the mountains to collect the songs and finds herself increasingly enchanted. .com 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

Key details: Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 | Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: No | MPAA rating: PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned) | Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 2.72 ounces | Director: Maggie Greenwald | Media Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Multiple Formats, NTSC | Run time: 1 hour and 49 minutes | Release date: February 19, 2004 | Actors: Corbin Bernsen, Dee Wallace, Paige Moss | Dubbed: : French, Spanish

Customer feedback: 4.7/5 average rating.

Customers say: Customers find this movie well-made with superb acting, particularly praising Janet McTeer and Aidan Quinn's performances.

Review snippets: I have used this movie for student viewing in American Music and World Music (North America) undergraduate classes. It provides an excellent introduction to the problems that early ethnographers encountered in working with informants in the Appalachian mountains. Aside from / Love the movie !!! Read more

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