A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

Directors

Robert Altman

Cast

Garrison Keillor, Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Lindsay Lohan, Kevin Kline, Woody Harrelson, Marylouise Burke, L.Q. Jones, Tommy Lee Jones, John C. Reilly, Virginia Madsen

The story

In Saint Paul, Minnesota, the long-running live radio variety show A Prairie Home Companion prepares for what the listening audience does not know is its final broadcast. The radio station's new parent company has scheduled the show's home, the storied Fitzgerald Theater, for demolition, and dispatched "the Axeman" to judge whether to save the show. In between musical acts, and under the watchful eye of PI Guy Noir (Kevin Kline), the show's denizens mingle and reminisce, including: the singing Johnson Girls, Yolanda (Meryl Streep), her sister Rhonda (Lily Tomlin), and daughter Lola (Lindsay Lohan); cowboy duo Dusty (Woody Harrelson) and…

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