Prairie Home Companion: The Movie - Critics' Thumbs Up

[fred flintstone]

Robert Altman's movie "A Prairie Home Companion" (screenplay by Garrison Keillor) based on the long-running public radio program opens* today. Reviews for the film are generally favorable:The New York Times

A late, minor addition to the Robert Altman collection — but a treasure all the same — "A Prairie Home Companion" is more likely to inspire fondness than awe. This is entirely appropriate, since the movie snuggles deep into the mood and sensibility of its source, Garrison Keillor's long-running public radio variety show.FULL REVIEWhttp://movies2.nytimes.com/2006/06/09/movies/09prai.html

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

What a lovely film this is, so gentle and whimsical, so simple and profound. Robert Altman's "A Prairie Home Companion" is faithful to the spirit of the radio program, a spirit both robust and fragile, and yet achieves something more than simply reproducing a performance of the show. It is nothing less than an elegy, a memorial to memories of times gone by, to dreams that died but left the dreamers dreaming, to appreciating what you've had instead of insisting on more.FULL REVIEWhttp://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060608/REVIEWS/60606001

OTHER REVIEWShttp://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808762689/criticOFFICIAL MOVIE WEBSITEhttp://www.aprairiehomecompanionmovie.com/RADIO SHOW WEBSITEhttp://prairiehome.publicradio.org/_________________________________________________*A Prairie Home Companion (the radio show) is produced and distributed by American Public Media - not NPR.