a prairie home companion

Director: robert altman

Actor: lily tomlin,meryl streep,woody harrelson,john c. reilly

Data Published: Thu Jun 01 2006

Genres: Comedy,Drama,Music,Musical,Romance,Western

Key Words: singing,radio,backstage,country music,radio show

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420087/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Prairie_Home_Companion_(film)

Description: A Prairie Home Companion is a movie starring Lily Tomlin, Meryl Streep, and Woody Harrelson. A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty,...

Plot: A long-running live radio show is in danger of being canceled by new owners of the company that holds both radio station "WLT" and the theater where the show is broadcast. The film takes place on the night of the show's last performance. The show has two visitors: an angel calling herself Asphodel (Virginia Madsen) comes to comfort the people who work on the show and to escort one of them to the afterlife, while "the Axeman" (Tommy Lee Jones), a representative of the new owners, arrives to judge whether the show should be canceled. He makes it clear that the show is not what he considers modern popular programming, and though he too is escorted by the angel, the show is shut down anyway. In an epilogue at the end of the film the former cast members are reunited at Mickey's Diner. Their conversation pauses as they are joined by Asphodel.