A Prairie Home Companion

2006

Action / Comedy / Drama / Music / Musical / Romance / Western

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 81% · 197 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 59% · 50K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 24338 24.3K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Robert Altman Photo
Robert Altman

Top cast

Roger Jackson Photo
Roger Jackson as Bystander
Woody Harrelson Photo
Woody Harrelson as Dusty
John C. Reilly Photo
John C. Reilly as Lefty
Tommy Lee Jones Photo
Tommy Lee Jones as The Axeman
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Bunuel1976 7 / 10

A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION (Robert Altman, 2006) ***

Before watching this movie, I had never heard of writer/performer/radio personality Garrison Keillor and the main reason I rented this was because it was Robert Altman's last film. As usual, he managed to rope in several high-profile Hollywood names into his cast - Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Kline, Lindsay Lohan, Virginia Madsen, John C. Reilly, Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin - but, as Altman himself admits in the rambling but not uninteresting Audio Commentary - he is basically just giving cinematic life to Keillor's preoccupations and radio show. The latter features a few Country & Western acts performing for a live audience (which is never shown) including Harrelson and Reilly as rude, lewd singing cowboys (their "Bad Jokes" song is a delightful highlight), Streep (who is clearly having a ball), Tomlin and Lohan as a singing family and even Sam Peckinpah favorite L. Q. Jones as another singing cowboy/old-timer.The most interesting aspects of the film are non-music related, however: it starts out in a Noir-ish style with smooth-talking detective Guy Noir (Kline) acting as narrator and observer and his clumsy attempts to stop the Axeman (Tommy Lee Jones) from foreclosing the show. Along the way, he meets and falls for a white-clad Angel of Death (Madsen) who, having expired herself in a traffic accident some years back while listening to Keillor's show, has now come to claim the lives of the two Joneses and possibly Kline himself...While perhaps a minor film in the Altman canon, it is still a respectable and fitting swan song for him. The shadow of impending death hangs so heavily on the movie that it is indeed remarkable how entertaining it actually is; I'm sure there are some more examples of a distinguished film-maker reflecting so openly on his approaching death but the three I can think of at the moment off the top of my head are the Wim Wenders/Nicholas Ray collaboration LIGHTNING OVER WATER (NICK'S MOVIE) (1979; which I've yet to watch for myself), Bob Fosse's ALL THAT JAZZ (1979; like Altman's film, also disguised as a musical) and John Huston's appropriately-titled last film, THE DEAD (1987).
Reviewed by reddiemurf81 6 / 10

Great cast,, but,,,

I thought this was a great kind of love letter to the radio show of the past,, but as a movie it kind of left wanting something that I wasn't getting. The cast is incredible,, but with such an incredible cast I expected some story beyond what was given. I may have completely missed something between the lines,, but I'd say this one is just good,, not great. It's perfectly worth watching,, just don't expect a lot of story.
Reviewed by rKim_ 8 / 10

A wonderful watch!

I used to listen to this on the radio and then just luckily stumbled onto the video by accident. It was a lot of fun to watch and extremely entertaining.I encourage you to watch this if you have the chance.
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