This wasn't a Garrison or PHC love fest, it was an Altman film. Like it or not, a lot of people who have never listened to or heard of Garrison Keillor or PHC are going to see this film, and judge it as a film.

They are, of course, not likely to post here.

I went to see the film because I'm an Altman fan, not a Keillor fan.

And actually, I don't see the world as "either/or" like you obviously do, Mr. catspaw. Some of us find life to be a bit more complex than that.

Bottom line, die hard True Believer PHC/Garrison Keillor fans will love this film, because it allows them to revel in something they love. I would, of course, expect to find a lot of them in a folk music forum.

Altman film fans (whom I would not expect to find in large numbers here) will be disappointed.

As I said, I kept trying to compare the film to "Nashville", one of Altman's classic films. If I were to describe this film to someone who is not familiar with PHC, I would say it is an light hearted Altman film about aging and dying. Part of the problem with the script is we are bludgeoned with the death part of it--one of many reasons the screenwriting is sub-par.

For those of you who really want to just see a "behind the scenes peek" at PHC, with a silly, pointless plot about the players that is nothing more than an extension of one of PHC's commercial bits, you will really love this movie. Especially because you can say "such great actors" agreed to do it.

The actors agreed to be part of this film because it is an Altman film, not because it was Garrison Keillor script and thinly disguised fictional story of his life as the radio host of PHC.