Songcatcher (2000)

Directed by

Maggie Greenwald

Genre

drama film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 49m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 39 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A musicologist travels to the Appalachian mountains to collect folk songs. She becomes immersed in the culture and relationships of the people living there.

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What happens

Songcatcher is a 2000 American drama film written and directed by Maggie Greenwald. It is about a musicologist researching and collecting Appalachian folk music in the mountains of western North Carolina. Although Songcatcher is a fictional film, it is loosely based on the work of Olive Dame Campbell, founder of the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina, and that of the English folk song collector Cecil Sharp, portrayed at the end of the film as professor Cyrus Whittle. The film grossed $3 million in limited theatrical release in the United States, which was generally considered as a respectable result for an arthouse film release in 2001. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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