Songcatcher Rating: Release Date: 23 October, 2001 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $12.99 You SAVE: $1.99! Cast: Janet McTeer Mike Harding (II) Aidan Quinn Jane Russell Complete Cast (12 total)

Songcatcher Reviews

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Mixed response
The music was what i grew up hearing.....my Granny was a singing woman.....i was born and raised in the mountains of Western NC and Eastern Tn. My Great Granddaddy was a music teacher from Keen Ireland.....i know these songs and the people they came from......they are my people...the hymns were as much as part of the air as the songs in this film..hymns were as much a part of the culture as the secular songs....yet, they were completly absent from the movie, giving a very distorted view of the culture. Also, the attitude of the church goers toward the two gay women in the movie was not the attitude of the church people i grew up with ...the moviemakers operated out of the same narrow judgemental perspective as the church goers in the movie. Wonderful character development, Emmy Rossum's voice and charachter portrayal was right on target, as ws some of the others. A few of the more subtle values of the "highlander" culture were wonderfully presented in this movie.

Great Expectations
I got this movie based on the rave reviews here and expected to hear tons of old time Appalachian music in real mountain settings but what I got was a typical hollywood drama. That is so sad because this movie has all of the potential in the world to highlight the music it extolls but fails to deliver.

I found that "Where the Lillies Bloom" offers a much better and realistic Appalachian experience.

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