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Phx Film Society presents - A Prairie Home Companion

Harkins Scottsdale Fashion Square
Scottsdale, AZ

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Phx Film Society presents - A Prairie Home Companion

The Arizona Republic and The Phoenix Film Society present a screening of - A Prairie Home Companion

Directed by: Robert Altman

Starring: Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Kline, Lindsay Lohan, John C. Reilly, Virginia Madsen and Garrison Keillor

When: Tuesday, June 6th at 7:00pm

Where: Harkins Scottsdale Fashion Square

Website: http://www.aprairiehomecompanionmovie.com/

Following the screening there will be a discussion about the film.

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. 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 a backstage doorkeeper, and Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly are Dusty and Lefty, the Old Trailhands, a singing cowboy act. Add Virginia Madsen as an angel and Tommy Lee Jones as the Axeman and Maya Rudolph as a pregnant stagehand and Keillor in the role of hangdog emcee, 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 show will be the last.