Songcatcher | |
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Directed by | Maggie Greenwald |
Written by | Maggie Greenwald |
Produced by | Richard Miller |
Starring | Janet McTeer Aidan Quinn Michael Davis Michael Goodwin Jane Adams E. Katherine Kerr Emmy Rossum Pat Carroll |
Cinematography | Enrique Chediak |
Edited by | Keith Reamer |
Music by | David Mansfield |
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Running time | 109 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1.8 million (estimated)[2] |
Box office | $3,050,934[3] |
Songcatcher is a 2000 American drama film 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,[4] which was generally considered as a respectable result for an arthouse film release in 2001.[5]