A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

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A Prairie Home Companion
Rolling Stone
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Rating: PG-13
Release Date: Jun 9, 2006
Running Time: 105 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
director: Robert Altman
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After 32 years, Garrison Keillor's radio variety show is coming to an end. Set on a rainy Saturday night in St. Paul, Minnesota, fans file into the Fitzgerald Theater to see “A Prairie Home Companion,” a staple of radio station WLT, not knowing that WLT has been sold to a Texas conglomerate and that tonight’s show will be the last. Backstage cast and crew assemble for one last hurrah. They include: The Johnson Sisters, Yolanda and Rhonda, a country duet act that has survived the county-fair circuit; Lola, who gets her big chance to sing on the show and then forgets the words; Guy Noir, a private eye down on his luck who works as a backstage doorkeeper; and Dusty and Lefty, the Old Trailhands, a singing cowboy act.
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You don't have to be an NPR junkie to appreciate Garrison Keillor and Robert Altman's sweet, gently funny tale about an old-fashioned radio show taking its last bow.

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Weaving fact--Garrison Keillor has been broadcasting the real Prairie Home radio show for decades--with fiction, A Prairie Home Companion focuses on the beloved program's final night. The theater it calls home has been purchased by a big corporation and is slated for demolition, so the last performance is bittersweet. While… Continued

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