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A Prairie Home Companion
Synopsis
Director Robert Altman and writer Garrison Keillor join forces with an all-star cast to create a comic backstage fable, "A Prairie Home Companion," about a fictitious radio variety show that has managed to survive in the age of television. On a rainy Saturday night in St. Paul, Minn., fans file into the Fitzgerald Theater to see "A Prairie Home Companion," a staple of radio station WLT, not knowing that WLT has been sold to a Texas conglomerate and that tonight's show will be the last. Shot entirely in the Fitzgerald, except for the opening and closing scenes which take place in a nearby diner, the picture combines Altman's cinematic style and intelligence and love of improvisation and Keillor's songs and storytelling to create a fictional counterpart to the actual "A Prairie Home Companion" radio show, which has heard on public radio stations coast to coast for the past quarter-century (and which, in real life, continues to broadcast). The result is a compact tale with a series of extraordinary acting turns.
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Full Credits
  • Director:
    Robert Altman,
  • Writer:
    Garrison Keillor,
  • Producer:
    Lowell Dubrinsky, Tony Judge, David Levy, Wren Arthur, David Levy, Robert Altman, Tony Judge, Wren Arthur, Joshua Astrachan, Lowell Dubrinsky,
  • Cinematographer:
    Edward Lachman,
  • Editor:
    Jacob Craycroft,
  • Executive Producer:
    George Sheanshang, Bill Pohlad, John Stout, Fisher Stevens, John Penotti, Patty Payne Green, Gerard Cafesjian,
  • Cast:
    Virginia Madsen, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Kline, Garrison Keillor, Lindsay Lohan, Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Woody Harrelson,
  • First Assistant Director:
    Vebe Borge,
  • Second Assistant Director:
    Dave Halls,
  • Supervising Sound Editor:
    Eliza Paley,
  • Script Supervisor:
    Dru Anne Carlson,
  • Production Sound Mixer:
    Drew Kunin,
  • Hair Department Head:
    Bridget Cook,
  • Hairstylist:
    Marlene D. Williams, J. Roy Helland,
  • Makeup Artist:
    Felicia Linsky, Natalie A. Hale, J. Roy Helland,
  • Key Hair Stylist:
    Roxanne Wightman,
  • Conductor:
    Richard A. Dworsky,
  • Story by:
    Ken LaZebnik, Garrison Keillor,
  • Art Direction:
    Jeff Schoen,
  • Set Decoration:
    Tora Peterson,
  • Casting:
    Pam Dixon,
  • Screenplay:
    Garrison Keillor,
  • Costume Design:
    Catherine Marie Thomas,
  • Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
    Michael Barry, Martin Czembor,
  • Production Design:
    Dina Goldman,
  • Music Arranger:
    Richard A. Dworsky,
  • Still Photographer:
    Melinda Sue Gordon,
  • Radio Play:
    Garrison Keillor,

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