A Prairie Home Companion

film by Altman [2006]

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Harrelson

  • Woody Harrelson
    In Woody Harrelson

    >A Prairie Home Companion (2006), and Joel and Ethan Coen’s No Country for Old Men (2007). He later gave an Oscar-nominated performance as an army officer tasked with delivering the news of the deaths of soldiers to their families in The Messenger (2009). He costarred…

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Keillor

  • In Garrison Keillor

    …appeared in, Robert Altman’s film A Prairie Home Companion (2006). He edited several volumes of poetry, including Good Poems (2002), Good Poems for Hard Times (2005), and Good Poems, American Places (2011), and published a collection of his own, O, What a Luxury: Verses Lyrical, Vulgar, Pathetic & Profound (2013).

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Tomlin

  • Lily Tomlin
    In Lily Tomlin

    …played an existential detective; and A Prairie Home Companion (2006), Altman’s adaptation of Garrison Keillor’s radio series. In Grandma (2015) Tomlin deployed her trademark acidity as the supportive but no-nonsense grandmother of a pregnant teenager.

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