A Prairie Home Companion is an American institution, one of the few things you can count on to brighten up a week’s worth of nerve-wracking developments. It is now a movie, and a glorious one, resulting from a wonderful collaboration between Prairie Home’s originator, host, and crooner Garrison Keillor and Robert Altman, not to mention a marvelous collection of actors, all assembled under the roof of St. Paul’s Fitzgerald Theater.

The cast of characters includes: Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin as the singing Johnson Sisters, Lindsay Lohan as Streep’s daughter, Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly as a singing duo too ribald for radio, L.Q. Jones as old Chuck the showbiz vet, Kevin Kline as a bumbling Guy Noir, Virginia Madsen as a mysterious angel, and Tommy Lee Jones as the suit from Texas poised to shut down the whole shebang.

We’re proud to be presenting a special preview screening of this film, followed by a talk with Mr. Keillor himself. A Prairie Home Companion opens in theaters on June 9.