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A Prairie Home Companion

2006

Robert Altman

Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Meryl Streep, Lindsay Lohan ...

5.7

2,473

Drama. Comedy. Musical Since 1974, the programme “A Prairie Home Companion” has been airing regularly (apart from a brief break in the 1980s) on public radio stations in the USA that now number some 558. A variety programme for the whole family, the show includes live bands, singers and fictional commercials, a crime series starring detective Guy Noir, and an endless soap, featuring anecdotes from a typical American small town named Lake Wobegon in Minnesota ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"For those, me included, who used to think of Keillor’s radio program as tepid, self-indulgent, repetitive and flat, you might even call it a revelation (...) There’s magic in it.(…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"A late, minor addition to the Robert Altman collection — but a treasure all the same"
		Todd McCarthy Variety	"The musical numbers are brief, spirited and thoroughly delightful (...) Amusement comes from many sources"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"What a lovely film this is, so gentle and whimsical, so simple and profound (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A tiresome, bafflingly indulgent fictionalised tribute to the long-running US radio variety show of the same title (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"
		Angie Errigo Empire	"Not one of Altman's masterpieces, but aficionados will find pleasures in a bittersweet swansong from the grand old man (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"

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