Songcatcher
(DVD Video) 

Special features: production commentary ; cast and crew interviews ; featurette ; extended scenes ; music-only track.

Videodisc release of the Songcatcher Films motion picture c2000.

Director of photography, Enrique Chediak ; director of art, Molly Mikula ; editor, Keith Reamer ; music, David Mansfield.

Janet McTeer (Lily Penleric), Aidan Quinn (Tom Bledsoe), Pat Carroll (Viney Butler), Jane Adams (Elna Penleric), Greg Russell Cook (Fate Honeycutt), Iris DeMent (Rose Gentry), Stephanie Roth Haberle (Alice Kincaid), David Patrick Kelly (Earl Giddens), E. Katherine Kerr (Harriet Tolliver), Taj Mahal (Dexter Speaks), Muse Watson (Parley Gentry), Emmy Rossum.

"When musicologist Doctor Lily Penleric ... is passed over for a prominent teaching position, she decides to leave the city to visit her sister in the rugged mountains of Appalachia. Here she discovers a wellspring of emotional tunes passed down from the original Irish and Scottish immigrants who settled in the area. Determined to document the history of the songs, she immerses herself in mountain life, falls in love with a local musician ... and is profoundly changed by the generosity, strength and freedom of the fiercely proud mountain people"--Container.

MPAA rating: PG-13; for sexual content and an intense scene of childbirth.

Also issued on VHS.

DVD; widescreen with 1.78:1 aspect ratio for 16x9 tv's; Dolby digital 5.1.

Optional English, French and Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.