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Songcatcher
Summary: 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 disco...
Runtime: 1 h 49 min
MPAA: PG-13
Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 1,800,000
Domestic: $ 3,059,834
International: $ 111,439
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