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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.
Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin star as the Johnson Sisters, Yolanda and Rhonda, a country duet act that has survived the county-fair circuit, and Lindsay Lohan plays Meryl'’s daughter, Lola, who gets her big chance to sing on the show and then forgets the words.
Kevin Kline is Guy Noir, a private eye down on his luck who works as the shows security guard, and Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly are Dusty and Lefty, the Old Trailhands, a singing cowboy act. Virginia Madsen as an angel, Tommy Lee Jones as the Axeman, Maya Rudolph as a pregnant stagehand and Keillor in the role of the emcee.
Add it all together and you have a playful story set on a rainy Saturday night in St. Paul, Minnesota, where 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 broadcast will be the show's last.
Original Release
05/25/2006
US Release
05/25/2006
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Marylouise Burke | Lunch Lady |
Woody Harrelson | Dusty |
L.Q. Jones | Chuck Akers |
Tommy Lee Jones | The Axeman / Axeman |
Kevin Kline | Guy Noir |
Lindsay Lohan | Lola Johnson |
Virginia Madsen | Dangerous Woman |
John C. Reilly | Lefty |
Maya Rudolph | Molly |
Tim Russell | Stage Manager |
Directors
Writers
Garrison Keillor, Ken LaZebnik
Cast
Name | Character |
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Marylouise Burke | Lunch Lady |
Woody Harrelson | Dusty |
L.Q. Jones | Chuck Akers |
Tommy Lee Jones | The Axeman / Axeman |
Kevin Kline | Guy Noir |
Lindsay Lohan | Lola Johnson |
Virginia Madsen | Dangerous Woman |
John C. Reilly | Lefty |
Maya Rudolph | Molly |
Tim Russell | Stage Manager |
Sue Scott | Makeup Lady |
Meryl Streep | Yolanda Johnson |
Lily Tomlin | Rhonda Johnson |
Tom Keith | Self - Sound Effects Man / Sound Effects Man |
Jearlyn Steele | Self / Jearlyn Steele |
Robin Williams | Self / Robin Williams |
Linda Williams | Self / Linda Williams |
Prudence Johnson | Self / Prudence Johnson |
Richard A. Dworsky | The Guys All-Star Shoe Band - Piano, Organ, Bandleader / Bandleader |
Pat Donohue | The Guys All-Star Shoe Band - Guitar |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Gerard Cafesjian | Executive Producer |
Frederick W. Green | Executive Producer |
Patty Payne Green | Executive Producer |
John Penotti | Executive Producer |
Bill Pohlad | Executive Producer |
George Sheanshang | Executive Producer |
Fisher Stevens | Executive Producer |
John Stout | Executive Producer |
Robert Altman | Producer |
Wren Arthur | Producer |
Joshua Astrachan | Producer |
Lowell Dubrinsky | Producer |
Tony Judge | Producer |
David Levy | Producer |