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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 10, 2006
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: New Line Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Woody Harrelson, John C. Reilly, Tommy Lee Jones, Garrison Keillor, Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Kline, Virginia Madsen, Maya Rudolph & Lindsay Lohan | |
Performer: | Robin Williams | |
Directed by | Robert Altman | |
Edited by | Jacob Craycroft | |
Screenwriting by | Garrison Keillor | |
Composition by | Richard Dworsky | |
Produced by | Wren Arthur, Robert Altman, George Sheanshang, Tony Judge, Joshua Astrachan, William Pohlad, John Penotti & Fisher Stevens | |
Director of Photography: | Edward Lachman |
Entertainment Reviews:
Altman uses his trademark wandering camera to mosey from character to character, pausing to watch and listen as they tease one another, reminisce about the old days, [and] worry about the future...
Los Angeles Times
3.5 stars out of 4 -- [A] loose-limbed, almost cheerily elegiac picture that convincingly creates its own strange and familiar world.
Premiere
Life is fleeting, but A Prairie Home Companion, slender and perfect, proves that art endures as a reminder of it
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CinePassion
3 stars out of 5 -- Robert Altman's final film is a wry meditation on death and the inevitable passing of all things.
Uncut
Rating: C+ --
...for the uninitiated, the story meanders far too much to resonate, and Altman's relentless focus on mortality dampens the show's amiable charm.
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Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Just lovely, and a magnificently enjoyable coda to an extraordinary career.
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Time Out
This is one of Altman's trademark all-star ensemble pieces, full of his equally trademark overlapping dialogue, his camera floating amiably in seemingly improvised style from group to group.
Sight and Sound
Product Description:
Cleverly adapted from the long-running radio series, A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION is a comedy-musical tour de force written by PRAIRIE host Garrison Keillor and directed by Oscar-winning auteur Robert Altman. Keillor stars as a fictional version of himself, leading his guests through what might be the end of an era: corporate bigwigs have bought the Fitzgerald Theater, where the radio show is aired live, so the cast and crew are dedicated to putting on one great final show before their longtime home meets the wrecking ball. Altman alternates between backstage intrigue and the classic, old-time music being played in front of a dedicated audience, mixing fact with fiction in humorous and poignant ways. Among the performers are sister act the Johnson Girls--Yolanda (Meryl Streep), Rhonda (Altman regular Lily Tomlin), and Yolanda's daughter, Lola (Lindsay Lohan)--aged folkster Chuck Akers (L.Q. Jones), who is having a torrid sexual relationship with the lunch lady (Marylouise Burke); the raunchy duo of singing cowpokes, Dusty (Woody Harrelson) and Lefty (John C. Reilly); and real PRAIRIE contributors Jearlyn Steele, Robin and Linda Williams, and the Guys All-Star Shoe Band, led by Richard Dworsky. As the show goes on, bumbling private detective and security chief Guy Noir (Kevin Kline) pratfalls his way through an investigation of a mysterious woman in white (Virginia Madsden) while awaiting the arrival of the Axeman (Tommy Lee Jones), the corporate honcho ready to close the show down. Meanwhile, pregnant stage manager Molly (Maya Rudolph) tries to keep things moving smoothly despite almost insurmountable odds. The outstanding soundtrack features both old and new songs (as well as fabulous commercial jingles) written by Keillor and others and actually performed by the diverse, talented cast, including such numbers as "Gold Watch & Chain," "Old Plank Road," "My Minnesota Home," and "Red River Valley."
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 110,917
- UPC: 794043105418
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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