Movie · 2001
Songcatcher
“Fall under its spell..”
Released 1 March 2001 109 min Drama / Music More from 2001 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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.
FR·01
How old were they?
Pat Carroll
as Viney Butler
Danny Nelson
as Uncle Cratis
Michael Goodwin
as Professor Wallace Aldrich, PhD
Taj Mahal
as Dexter Speaks
David Patrick Kelly
as Earl Giddens
Aidan Quinn
as Tom Bledsoe
Janet McTeer
as Professor Lily Penleric, PhD
Stephanie Roth Haberle
as Alice Kincaid
Bart Hansard
as Hilliard
Jane Adams
as Eleanor 'Elna' Penleric
Emmy Rossum
as Deladis Slocumb
Gregory Russell Cook
as Fate Honeycutt
E. Katherine Kerr
as Harriet Tolliver
Erin Blake Clanton
as Polly
Kristin Hall
as Isabel
Michael Harding
as Reese Kincaid
FR·02
The numbers
59years between the oldest and youngest billed
73Pat Carroll — oldest on the call sheet
14Emmy Rossum — youngest billed
46average age of the credited cast