Songcatcher with Janet McTeer: DVD Cover

    Songcatcher Director: Maggie Greenwald Cast: Janet McTeer, Aidan Quinn, Pat Carroll, Jane Adams

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    • DVD Release Date: 10/23/2001
    • Original Release: 2000
    • Rating: Rated PG13
    • Sales Rank: 15,982

    Viewer Rating: (17 ratings)

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    Features

    Widescreen; 5.1 Dolby Digital; Production commentary; Trailer; Featurette; English, French & Spanish subtitles; Extended scenes; Music-only track; Interactive menus; Scene access

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    0. Scene Index
    1. Unanimous Vote [5:13]
    2. 5 Mountain Miles [3:49]
    3. Twas Month of May [2:58]
    4. Lilly's Song Collection [5:31]
    5. Ivina Butler [6:08]
    6. Meeting Tom [3:12]
    7. Tom plays banjo [4:22]
    8. Eleanor and Harriet [3:32]
    9. Earl Giddons [2:28]
    10. Pushing the baby out [6:59]
    11. Going to see Rose [4:04]
    12. Deal is Done [5:00]
    13. Dance brawl [9:12]
    14. Oh Death,oh death [6:40]
    15. The Black Panther Run [3:22]
    16. Reese comes home [3:58]
    17. The Picnic [4:00]
    18. Urgent Letter [3:37]
    19. The Fire [4:45]
    20. Condemned sinners [4:26]
    21. When the Mountain Cry [3:19]
    22. Come with Me [4:23]
    23. Going down the Mountain [2:49]
    24. Credits [4:43]

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    Editorial Reviews

    Janet McTeer follows up her Oscar-nominated performance in Tumbleweeds (1999) with this period drama set during the 1910s. Dr. Lily Penleric (McTeer), an uptight musicologist, is furious after getting denied tenure again at an elite all-male East Coast university. She promptly quits out of protest, and having nowhere else to go, she joins her sister in a remote mountain school. Her high-minded, refined ways quickly clash with the locals, yet her academic interests are peaked when she realizes that this bucolic mountain culture is thoroughly infused with music that harkens back to traditional English and Scottish folk ballads. After retrieving some tools, including a primitive recording device, from the East Coast, she sets out collecting songs. The locals react with a mixture of amusement, bafflement, and suspicion. Meanwhile, a mining company is strong-arming the impoverished residences into selling their coal-rich land for a pittance. Lily soon realizes that the culture she's seeking to preserve is quickly being torn asunder. Aidan Quinn and David Patrick Kelly also appear in this film, which was screened at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide

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    This is one amazing movie.by Anonymous

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    February 04, 2009: I highly recommend this.

    The music was outstanding...butby Anonymous

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    October 21, 2006: The lesbian love story was a bit of a turnoff. Not sure why the producers had to ruin a good story and GREAT music with this sop to modern mores. Interesting to see Pat Carroll for the first time in 40 years since her "Make Room for Daddy" days.

    This review was written about the DVD Wide Screen edition.


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