Songcatcher

6.1
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Run time: 109 min
  • Premiere: 2001. March 1.

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.

Discover

Janet McTeer

Professor Lily Penleric, PhD

Michael Goodwin

Professor Wallace Aldrich, PhD

Gregory Russell Cook

Fate Honeycutt

Jane Adams

Eleanor 'Elna' Penleric

E. Katherine Kerr

Harriet Tolliver

Emmy Rossum

Deladis Slocumb

Pat Carroll

Viney Butler

Aidan Quinn

Tom Bledsoe

Bart Hansard

Hilliard

David Patrick Kelly

Earl Giddens

Michael Harding

Reese Kincaid

Taj Mahal

Dexter Speaks

Iris DeMent

Rose Gentry

Rhoda Griffis

Clementine McFarland

Michael Davis

Dean Arthur Pembroke

Art

Molly Mikula

Art Direction

Marthe Pineau

Set Decoration

Ginger Tougas

Production Design

Camera

Enrique Chediak

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Kasia Walicka Maimone

Costume Design

Directing

Editing

Production

Wendy Sax

Co-Producer

Patrick Allen

Associate Producer

Lisa Vandever

Associate Producer

Richard Miller

Producer

Caroline Kaplan

Executive Producer

Jennifer Roth

Co-Producer

Ellen Parks

Casting

Elizabeth Finkelstein

Associate Producer

Jonathan Sehring

Executive Producer

Sound

David Mansfield

Original Music Composer

Sheila K. Adams

Vocal Coach

Writing