Watch: Songcatcher 2000 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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 – not only by the rugged purity of the music, but also by the raw courage and endurance of the local people as they carve out meaningful lives against the harshest conditions. It is not, however, until she meets Tom – a handsome, hardened war veteran and talented musician – that she’s forced to examine her motivations. Is the “Songcatcher,” as Tom insists, no better than the men who exploit the people and extort their land?.
Plot: 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.
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Honest view of Appalachia circa early 1900’s
This movie accomplishes many things within the premise of “Songcatching”. The movie exposes the hardships, ignorances, prejudices, resourcefulness, intelligence, commonsense and heart of the people who remained out of touch with “progress”.The movie has some graphic and controversial scenes; but the majority is appropriate for all ages.
The way the folk music is in-twined in the lives of the local people is magical and authentic. I wish a sound track was available with the full versions of the “collected” songs in the original voices of the actors, in the same simplistic way they were produced for the movie.
This is a movie I have enjoyed on many occasions and look forward to future viewings. I have purchased the DVD.
Soothing and satisfying.
I recently caught the tail-end of this on HBO and had to watch all of it on Netflix.It is nearly mesmerizing. I think the only flaw I found with it was the beginning. I wanted a longer beginning, so that more contrast would become evident as the movie went on.
Having said that, Songcatcher is sweet and just a bit haunting.
Jane Adams steals this with a elegant and yearning performance. But the performances are all beautiful and slow as a massage without the meter running. I’ve always like Aidan Quinn and I love that Janet McTeer is not a Kewpie doll someone stuck into a serious film. She’s a woman – just as there were once women in movies.
I recommend it highly.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 49 min (109 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Drama, Music
Director Maggie Greenwald
Writer Maggie Greenwald
Actors Janet McTeer, Michael Harding, Michael Davis
Country United States
Awards 5 wins & 5 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex 35-IIIC, Zeiss Super Speed Lenses, Moviecam Compact, Zeiss Super Speed Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor, New York (NY), USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision 500T 5279, Eastman EXR 200T 5293)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision 2383)