Songcatcher

Songcatcher (2000)

  • 74% of critics liked it
    (87 reviews)

  • 75% of users liked it
    (2,299 ratings)

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,… More

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PG-13, 1 hr. 52 min.
Directed By
Maggie Greenwald
Written By
Maggie Greenwald
Genres
Drama, Romance, Musical & Performing Arts
In Theaters
Jun 29, 2001 Limited
On DVD
Oct 23, 2001
Lions Gate

Critic Reviews

  • Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader

    Like the main character, it's stodgy and didactic -- and full of grace and surprises.

  • Dennis Harvey, Variety

    Songcatcher unfolds at a leisurely but enjoyable pace, its dramatic contrivances never pushed too hard by director Maggie Greenwald.

  • Rick Groen, Globe and Mail

    No matter how purely sung, the music keeps getting lost in the melodrama.

  • Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

    A wonderfully crafted movie in a minor key.

  • Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle

    Tall, big-boned Janet McTeer ... is the ideal actress to play Lily Penleric.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • jay n


    Lovely small film with beautiful music.

  • Cindy I


    The film, about a female music scholar's study of Appalachian mountain music, is slow, but the music is SO worth it.

  • Dannielle A


    Lily always had a wide-eyed stare, no matter what emotion she was showing. There were lots of random events, unrelated to the story line and the movie was fairly predictable overall.

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