If you like the Garrison Keeler books and radio programmes you will enjoy this too. (Although I do have to say that I was slightly disillusioned to see Mr Keeler in the flesh, after listening to him on the radio I had created an image in my head - and he didn't turn out to be quite like what I'd imagined). The film is set in a mid western cinema where a live radio programme is coming to an end after a 30 year or more run. Every person is apprehensive about losing their jobs. Kevin Kline plays a failed private eye (he talks like a Raymond Chandler novel), turned 'security guard'. Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep are fading 'family country singers', Woody Harrelson is an ex-convist turned cowboy singer (his songs are somewhat dubious in content - and probably justified the show being pulled - 'I want you to ride my pony bareback through the night') and Garrison Keeler plays the shows host. Typically for a Robert Altman film not alot happens, and the humour is light, witty and teeters close to pathos, or bathos. There is an angel (really playing the role of death) dressed in a long white trench coat - who roams through the movie theatre seeking customers.
A good film and a pity this will only get an arthouse showing.
My rating: 8/10
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