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Overview

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Director:
Maggie Greenwald
Writer (WGA):
Maggie Greenwald (written by)
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Release Date:
1 March 2001 (Australia) more
Genre:
Drama | Music more
Plot:
After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
5 wins & 5 nominations more
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Aidan Quinn's Countryside Ambitions
 (From WENN. 16 July 2001)

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I love everything about this film more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Janet McTeer ... Professor Lily Penleric, PhD
Michael Davis ... Dean Arthur Pembroke
Michael Goodwin ... Professor Wallace Aldrich, PhD
Greg Russell Cook ... Fate Honeycutt
Jane Adams ... Eleanor 'Elna' Penleric

E. Katherine Kerr ... Harriet Tolliver

Emmy Rossum ... Deladis Slocumb

Pat Carroll ... Viney Butler
Stephanie Roth Haberle ... Alice Kincaid

Aidan Quinn ... Tom Bledsoe
Bart Hansard ... Hilliard
Erin Blake Clanton ... Polly

David Patrick Kelly ... Earl Giddens
Kristin Hall ... Isabel

Michael Harding ... Reese Kincaid
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for sexual content and an intense scene of childbirth.
Runtime:
109 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
Argentina:13 | Australia:M | New Zealand:M | USA:PG-13 (certificate #37448)
Company:
ErgoArts more

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Goofs:
Anachronisms: Kudzu is shown growing in the forest. Kudzu was introduced into Appalachia in the 1930s from Japan to slow erosion. Kudzu would not have been present during the period this movie covers. more
Quotes:
Tom Bledsoe: See, that's what you outlanders don't understand. Life is for enjoying, not just getting and working, and getting and working. more
Soundtrack:
Pickin' That Thang (Dr. Joe) more

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4 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
I love everything about this film, 8 January 2006
Author: shellywilley2 from United States

I happened upon this film by chance and watched it at first because of the beautiful scenery. Hooked. I watch again every chance I get. Janet McTeer is perfect as the intelligent, suppressed Victorian woman. She plays the stiffly proper role perfectly, even after we have seen her rebellious nature early in the film by her involvement with a married man.

I have always felt that Aiden Quinn has been under appreciated. He shines in this film, as does Pat Carroll in a rare serious role. I disagree with those who call the lesbian storyline a distraction. They didn't TALK about sex during Victorian times, but they sure had it! I had no difficulty believing that two women living together in an environment so foreign to their upbringing would develop a closeness which would lead to a physical relationship.

The traditional music was wonderful, but David Mansfield's original score was incredible. My family has lived in the mountains of West Virginia since the sixteen hundreds, there is a family cemetery on the side of a mountain in the woods. Mansfield's "And the Mountains Cried" playing while the coffin was carried up the hill showed me something that could have been a picture from my family's past. It moved me so much that I sent him an email, telling him what an impact his music, especially that song, made . To my surprise, he replied, thanked me, and included the lyrics.

I loved this film. Wonderful music, beautiful costumes, humor, lust, rebellion, murder, and you can't beat the beauty of the location.

I suspect it's a more accurate portrayal of life at that time and place than most people might think.

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