Songcatcher
Songcatcher
Release: 2001-03-01
·Runtime: 109m
·★ 6.1
Drama
Music
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Rigas Entertainment
ErgoArts
Cast
David Patrick Kelly
as Earl Giddens
E. Katherine Kerr
as Harriet Tolliver
Hazel Dickens
as Singer at Barn Dance
Janet McTeer
as Professor Lily Penleric, PhD
Aidan Quinn
as Tom Bledsoe
Michael Harding
as Reese Kincaid
Taj Mahal
as Dexter Speaks
Iris DeMent
as Rose Gentry
Rhoda Griffis
as Clementine McFarland
Danny Nelson
as Uncle Cratis
Emmy Rossum
as Deladis Slocumb
Pat Carroll
as Viney Butler
Bart Hansard
as Hilliard
Michael Goodwin
as Professor Wallace Aldrich, PhD
Jane Adams
as Eleanor 'Elna' Penleric
Stephanie Roth Haberle
as Alice Kincaid
