Janet McTeer
Lily Penleric
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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.
Jul 27, 2001 · Recently viewed. Songcatcher: Directed by Maggie Greenwald. With Janet McTeer, Michael Davis, Michael Goodwin, Gregory Russell Cook. 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.
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- Drama, Music
- Maggie Greenwald
- 2001-07-27
Jun 29, 2001 · Roger Ebert June 29, 2001. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. "Songcatcher" tells the story of a woman who goes into the mountains of Appalachia in 1907, and finds the people singing British ballads that are almost unchanged since they arrived there 200 years earlier.
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Brief Synopsis. 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, song.
- Maggie Greenwald
- Janet Mcteer
A film about a woman whose drive to pursue the things she believes in leads her on an unexpected path to self-discovery. It is 1907, and musicologist Doctor Lily Penleric (Janet McTeer) has just ...
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- Maggie Greenwald
- PG-13
- Janet Mcteer
About this movie. arrow_forward. Winner of the Sundance Film Festival's Special Jury Prize SONGCATCHER follows the unforgettable journey of a big-city musicologist who leaves it all behind to...
Summaries. 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 ...
