A Prairie Home Companion Synopsis & Movie Info

'A Prairie Home Companion' is a fictionalized account of Garrison Keillor's award-winning show, which currently runs on more than 558 public radio stations. The film follows the show's cast of characters preparing for the final live broadcast on the eve of being shut down after 30 years. The Johnson Sisters, Yolanda (Meryl Streep) and Rhonda (Lily Tomlin), are an aging country duet who've survived the country-fair circuit. Yolanda's daughter Lola (Lindsay Lohan) hopes to follow in her mother's footsteps but when she finally gets her big break to sing with the show, she forgets the words. Guy Noir (Kevin Klein) is a down and out private eye who moonlights as the backstage doorkeeper and Dusty and Lefty, (Woody Harrelson and John C Reily, respectively) the Old Trailhands, are a cowboy duo who have also been on the circuit for years. Add Virginia Madsen as an angel, Tommy Lee Jones as the Axeman, Maya Rudolph as a pregnant stagehand and Garrison Keillor himself in the role of 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 its been sold to a Texas conglomerate and tonight's show will be the last.