Commentary: Movie Litigation Features Many Sub-Plots

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This summer's "Prairie Home Companion," the movie derived from Garrison Keillor's popular radio show, is the latest Minnesota- based film to attain critical acclaim. The movie, which Keillor wrote and also stars in, garnered rave reviews, including a description as "just wonderful" by the New York Times.

Although it has not been a top box office revenue producer, the film follows in the steps of other high-profile Minnesota movies, such as last year's "North Country," dealing with sex harassment on the Iron Range; "Fargo," filmed in part around Hibbing, which earned a Best Actress Academy Award for Frances McDormand, who also co- starred in "North Country;" "The Mighty Ducks" series of youth hockey comedies; the antediluvian antics in the pair of "Grumpy Old Men" flicks; and even one of the early disaster films, "Airport," filmed in part at the Twin Cities International Airport.

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Commentary: Movie Litigation Features Many Sub-Plots

There have been, to be sure, a few Minnesota cinematic clinkers, such as "Untamed Hearts," starring Christian Slater and Marisa Tomei, and Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Jingle All The Way," filmed in St. Paul near some of the same local landmarks in "Prairie Home."

The successes and occasional failures of Minnesota-based movies recall the triumphs and tribulations that Minnesota litigants have encountered in cinematic lawsuits. The cases ...

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