Continuity mistake: When John C. Reilly is in the dressing room telling the airplane story, the time changes back and forth on the clock behind him.
A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Robert Altman
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, John C. Reilly, Lindsay Lohan, Lily Tomlin, L.Q. Jones, Marylouise Burke
Guy Noir (Kevin Kline) asks the mysterious woman/angel Asphodel (Virginia Madsen) to make the company representative/"axe man" (Tommy Lee Jones) go away. She does so by suggesting to him an alternate, dangerous route to the airport and he dies. Lola (Lindsay Lohan) is one of the last to sing during the last few minutes of the show and doesn't sing a song about suicide. The show is cancelled and Guy is one of the last to leave the building before it's demolished. A few years later.. Guy, G.K. (as himself), Yolanda (Meryl Streep), Rhonda (Lily Tomlin), Dusty (Woody Harrelson), Lefty (John C. Reilly) plan a farewell tour. The mysterious woman walks into the diner and approaches them...
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Trivia: Maya Rudolph, who plays the pregnant character Molly, was actually pregnant during the filming of the movie.
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