Janet McTeer
Lily Penleric
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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. The film grossed $3 million in limited theatrical ...
Jul 27, 2001 · 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.
- (3.7K)
- Drama, Music
- Maggie Greenwald
- 2001-07-27
About this movie. 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 start life anew in the breathtaking mountains of Appalachia. After she discovers the haunting beauty of the local Appalachian folk music she is determined to record and ...
1 hr 45 mins. Drama, Music. PG13. Watchlist. Writer-director Maggie Greenwald hits all the right notes in a lyrical tale set in the early 1900s. Janet McTeer stars as a musicologist who discovers ...
- (27)
- 2 min
- PG13
Songcatcher. "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. It is also a feminist parable transplanted to earlier times, revealing too much consciousness of modern values.
Feb 19, 2014 · Doctor Lily Penleric (Janet McTeer) goes to visit her sister and her struggling rural school after being denied a promotion at the University where she teach...
- 2 min
- 59.5K
- Film4
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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.
