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A Prairie Home Companion is a 2006 American musical comedy film directed by Robert Altman in his final film. It is a fictional representation of behind-the-scenes activities at the long-running public radio show of the same name. The film received mostly positive reviews and was a moderate box-office success on a small budget.
Jun 9, 2006 · A Prairie Home Companion: Directed by Robert Altman. With Marylouise Burke, Woody Harrelson, L.Q. Jones, Tommy Lee Jones. A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court.
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- Comedy, Drama, Music
- Robert Altman
- 2006-06-09
Released on June 9, 2006, A Prairie Home Companion is a film about "a dying radio show that bears striking similarities to 'A Prairie Home Companion,'" with the actual APHC home venue, the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul chosen to serve "as set piece, soundstage and framing device". [51]
A Prairie Home Companion. A private investigator (Kevin Kline) keeps tabs on the proceedings as guests, cast and crew (Meryl Streep, Lindsay Lohan, Woody Harrelson) of a long-running radio show ...
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- Robert Altman
- PG-13
- Meryl Streep
Jun 8, 2006 · What a lovely film this is, so gentle and whimsical, so simple and profound. Robert Altman's "A Prairie Home Companion" is faithful to the spirit of the radio program, a spirit both robust and fragile, and yet achieves something more than simply reproducing a performance of the show. It is nothing less than an elegy, a memorial to memories of times gone by, to dreams that died but left the ...
Nov 12, 2008 · Both this film and the one that preceded it, " The Company ," reflect his collaborative, elusive, almost telepathic style of directing. Advertisement. There are lines in "Companion" (2006) that may indeed have been written by Keillor, but take on a special meaning now that Altman is gone.
A Prairie Home Companion. From legendary director Robert Altman comes his final film, the deeply moving and comedic A Prairie Home Companion. Based on Garrison Keillor's wildly popular radio program of the same name, Altman invites audiences to the fictional "closing night" of the fabled show. As the rain pours down on a blustery Minnesota ...
