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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Editorial Review:

Product Description:
When musicologist doctor lily penleric is passed over for a prominent teaching position she leaves the city to visit her sister in the beautifully rugged mountains of appalachia. It is here she discovers a wellspring of emotional tunes passed down from the original irish and scottish immigrants. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 05/25/2004 Starring: Janet Mcteer Jane Adams Run time: 109 minutes Rating: Pg13

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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 truly great cast, including the wonderful Pat Carroll, and a just-for-the-hell-of-it cameo by bluesman Taj Mahal. Songcatcher has a healthy respect for the mountain people it portrays, and an absolute reverence for their music. --Ali Davis


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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Lions Gate
EAN: 9781588173058
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
ISBN: 1588173054
Label: Lions Gate
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1EnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
MPN: VMMD7543D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 23, 2001
Running Time: 109 minutes
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: 2000

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Loved 5 out of 5 stars
The first time I viewed this movie was in Charlotte, NC at a motel while with an older couple - friends I had driven down for a meeting. I was awake early AM and turned on tv - HBO and saw only a portion of movie. I did manage to get the title and pulled it up on Amazon, therefore I purchased a copy. I viewed it in its entirety and a year later enjoyed it with a cousin. Thus, I ordered this last one for her own personal copy. I have since loaned my copy to my daughter-in-law to view. I am from ... Read More


 





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