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When musicologist Doctor Lily Penleric (Golden Globe Award-winner Janet McTeer) is passed over for a prominent teaching position, she leaves the city to visit her sister in the beautifully rugged mountains of Appalachia. It is here she discovers a wellspring of emotional tunes passed down from the original Irish and Scottish immigrants who settled in these parts. Determined to document the history of the songs, she immerses herself in mountain life, falls in love with a local musician, Aidan Quinn (Practical Magic), andis profoundly changed by the generosity, strength, and freedom of the fiercely proud mountain people.
Original Release
03/01/2001
US Release
07/27/2001
Cast
Name | Character |
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Janet McTeer | Lily Penleric / Professor Lily Penleric, PhD |
Michael Davis | Dean Arthur Pembroke |
Michael Goodwin | Professor Wallace Aldrich / Professor Wallace Aldrich, PhD |
Gregory Russell Cook | Fate Honeycutt |
Jane Adams | Elna Penleric / 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 |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Janet McTeer | Lily Penleric / Professor Lily Penleric, PhD |
Michael Davis | Dean Arthur Pembroke |
Michael Goodwin | Professor Wallace Aldrich / Professor Wallace Aldrich, PhD |
Gregory Russell Cook | Fate Honeycutt |
Jane Adams | Elna Penleric / 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 |
Taj Mahal | Dexter Speaks |
Muse Watson | Parley Gentry |
Iris DeMent | Rose Gentry |
Rhoda Griffis | Clementine McFarland |
Steve Boles | Ambrose McFarland |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Caroline Kaplan | Executive Producer |
Jonathan Sehring | Executive Producer |
Patrick Allen | Producer |
Elizabeth Finkelstein | Producer |
Richard Miller | Producer |
Ellen Rigas-Venetis | Producer |
Jennifer Roth | Producer |
Wendy Sax | Producer |
Lisa Vandever | Producer |