Songcatcher

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Songcatcher
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PG13,1hr 52min
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June 29, 2001
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Lions Gate
Synopsis: 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 ... Full Synopsis
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It's a highly professional project complete with exquisite production details and superb actors, yet its subject matter is so far out of the mainstream, it feels almost radical. Full Review
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63
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out of 100
Featured Cast
Dr Lily Penleric
Tom Bledsoe
Viney Butler
Elna Penleric
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