Movies: A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

Moviette: A Prairie Home Companion (2006): "Meryl Streep carries the show as a chirpy yet conflicted folk-music chanteuse and she sings beautifully. Her sister (Lily Tomlin) antiphonalizes as they slowly spill out their bittersweet stories about loss and sacrifice as the remaining two sisters in a legendary folk-music family. [...] Make no mistake about this movie and the radio show it is based upon: You come for the live music, the repartee, and a spirit and sentiment that cannot be described. (Listening to Keillor's voice is so much more alluring than seeing him.) You leave with memories and emotional fuel, built partly on the values of the past and reincarnated for the present day, to make it another week in the postmodern world. Four stars."