MOVIE REVIEW
Title: A Prairie Home Companion
Folks who haven’t listened to “A Prairie Home Companion” won’t get the in-jokes, so I can’t speak for them. But I’m a big Lily Tomlin fan, and she and Meryl Streep were spot-on as the aging gospel singing sisters. I can’t say I’ve ever seen Woody Harrelson in anything other than a couple of episodes of “Cheers,” but I laughed so hard at his comedy routine with John C. Reilly, I had tears in my eyes. And the jokes were real groaners! But Harrelson’s expression is what did it for me. That sly grin and the look of innocence that precedes a joke that should have been left unspoken. And Keillor is Keillor—pretty much the same on screen as he is on radio.
Title: A Prairie Home Companion
Folks who haven’t listened to “A Prairie Home Companion” won’t get the in-jokes, so I can’t speak for them. But I’m a big Lily Tomlin fan, and she and Meryl Streep were spot-on as the aging gospel singing sisters. I can’t say I’ve ever seen Woody Harrelson in anything other than a couple of episodes of “Cheers,” but I laughed so hard at his comedy routine with John C. Reilly, I had tears in my eyes. And the jokes were real groaners! But Harrelson’s expression is what did it for me. That sly grin and the look of innocence that precedes a joke that should have been left unspoken. And Keillor is Keillor—pretty much the same on screen as he is on radio.
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