A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show.
Director: Robert Altman
Stars: Lily Tomlin, Meryl Streep, Woody Harrelson, Garrison Keillor, Kevin Kline, Lindsay Lohan, Virginia Madsen, John C. Reilly.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420087/
Watched online, ok print.
46 songs in the Soundtracks.
Final film director credit for RA ('26-'06). I'm not a fan: of the 7 films I've rated, I gave them 4555666, while four of them have rating higher than 6.0. (Another is an anthology with multiple directors.)
I don't understand what people (especially critics) enjoy his work; this one has a metascore of 75, which is good.
I don't see the point of the "story" set at the final broadcast of APHC: a performer dies in his dressing room after being on-air, a mysterious woman (VM) wanders around backstage, visible to everyone, but is an angel (of death). She suggests a shortcut to the executive from the corporation who shut down the show, and he (presumably with his chauffeur) dies in the crash. KK plays a clueless security gumshoe who didn't even investigate VM, even though he was the first to meet her and he was attracted to her.
Viewing this once was more than enough.
Rated 6.8 (20,870)
distr. Picturehouse, dir. Altman; 5
