The shadow of Altman's masterful NASHVILLE (1975) hangs heavily over his last film, a slight, uneven love letter to old-fashioned radio shows, sweet-and-sour country-western ditties and amiably self-conscious cornpone humor, based on Garrison Keillor's long-running program. It's Saturday night in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the Fitzgerald Theater is about to host local station WLT's regular broadcast of the venerable variety hour "A Prairie Home Companion," a retro mix of music, tall tales and gentle philosophizing. It's all hosted by tall, gravely whimsical G.K. (Keillor, as a down-at-the-heels version of his very successful self), who also shills gamely on behalf of B...
Released:
2006
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
105 mins