A Prairie Home Companion (2 Discs)

If you are familiar with and love the work of Garrison Keillor, then you will love this film. Though the Director is Robert Altman and the names on the cast list include a number of stars, this is Keillors film. He is the ideal foil for Altman. His humour is gentle, whimsical even slight.

The picture he paints is not of a brash slick smart America, an urbane witty, wisecracking America or even a defiantly redneck America. This is an America locked in the fifties, homely, slightly innocent and charming.

As with Keillor's books, the plot is slight, concerning the take over of the Radio station airing the long running Prairie Home Companion Show. But the plot doesn't revolve very much around that, the plot is the show and the show is a selection of unlikely characters.

The action is all set in the Radio Station, either on the set of or offstage of the show.

Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin give wondderfully warm and gentle performances and Kevin Kline makes a… more »

If you are familiar with and love the work of Garrison Keillor, then you will love this film. Though the Director is Robert Altman and the names on the cast list include a number of stars, this is Keillors film. He is the ideal foil for Altman. His humour is gentle, whimsical even slight.

The picture he paints is not of a brash slick smart America, an urbane witty, wisecracking America or even a defiantly redneck America. This is an America locked in the fifties, homely, slightly innocent and charming.

As with Keillor's books, the plot is slight, concerning the take over of the Radio station airing the long running Prairie Home Companion Show. But the plot doesn't revolve very much around that, the plot is the show and the show is a selection of unlikely characters.

The action is all set in the Radio Station, either on the set of or offstage of the show.

Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin give wondderfully warm and gentle performances and Kevin Kline makes a wonderful Lounge Lizaed.

If you are looking for action, thrills or belly laughs, then this film is not for you, but if you are looking for an intelligent, gentle work then this a film you should see.