A Prairie Home Companion
Peter from Dublin, 06 Aug 2007
A wonderful feel good movie. Meryl Streep and Garrison Keillor (playing himself) are excellent. Superb timing, great music and a very natural presentation.Woody Harrelson and John C Reilly have many funny scenes as two rambling cowboy singers and Kevin Kline is superb as a self absorbed quasi private detective character. Robert Altman once again surpasses himself, in the words of the New York Times, with a film that is a defiant celebration of imperfection, improvisation and accident. Watch it.
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Prairie Home Companion
Norella from Dublin, 16 Aug 2007
A great movie that gives you a warm homely feeling inside (and makes you want to quilt); fails to tie up stories/character development very neatly, but I'll forgive it as I enjoyed the music - a must for country music fans; even if you're not a country music fan, watch it anyway, as it is quite funny (it's all in the delivery). I approve.
3 people out of 6 found this review helpful
What A Woebegone Movie!
Les from Dublin, 02 Nov 2007
As a Garrison Keiller fan, for about 15 years, I was so pleased to see that they had finally made a movie of my favourite radio programme; but, oh, what a huge disappointment it turned out to be. The characters and scenery were much as I had imagined, but the plot was extremely weak. Seems to me like they were trying to be too clever; it came across as very self indulgent. I'm still a fan of Garrison Keiller, but how sad that, incredibly, there wasn't even any "news from Lake Wobegon"!
2 people out of 4 found this review helpful
prairie
Patrick & Jacqueline from Dublin, 08 Aug 2007
A slow moving depiction of an old fashioned american radio show. This was Robert Altman's last movie & interesting for that reason alone. However unless You are a fan of the original radio show or Garrison Keilor this might not be for you. It has no real story or plot but has a very good cast.
2 people out of 3 found this review helpful
Disappointing
John from Mayo, 24 Jul 2007
I was really looking forward to this Altman film with a great cast but
I must admit I was disappointed with the end result. Don't get me wrong its a very watchable film with a few laugh out-loud moments, unfortunately these were few and far between.
2 people out of 2 found this review helpful
Non-runner
Monika from Cork, 02 Aug 2007
For me, confirmation that Robert Altman hasn't made a good movie since Pret-a-porter. You get the good performances from a cast like this, some nice moments and a curious insight in Middle American entertainment. But watching a variety show-like plotline meandering along just fails to be engaging enough.
1 people out of 1 found this review helpful