SONGCATCHER

Movie Description:
When musicologist Doctor Lily Penleric, played by Golden Globe Award winner Janet McTeer, is passed over for a prominent teaching position, sheleaves the city to visit her sister in the beautifully rugged mountains of Appalachia. Itis here she discovers a wellspring of emotional tunes passeddown from the original Irish and Scottish immigrans who settled in these parts. Determined to document the historyof the songs, she immersesherself in mountain life, fallsin love with a local musician, Aidan Quinn, and is profoundly changed by the generosity, strength, and freedom of thefiercly proud mountain people.