Steel Magnolias

“Six extraordinary friends. They share each other's laughter. They dry each other's tears.”

7.2

1989

1h 57m

ComedyDramaRomance

Director: Herbert Ross

Overview

A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship and welcome her into the fold.

Trailer

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Cast

M'Lynn Eatenton

Sally Field

M'Lynn Eatenton

Truvy Jones

Dolly Parton

Truvy Jones

Ouiser Boudreaux

Shirley MacLaine

Ouiser Boudreaux

Annelle Dupuy

Daryl Hannah

Annelle Dupuy

Clairee Belcher

Olympia Dukakis

Clairee Belcher

Shelby Eatenton Latcherie

Julia Roberts

Shelby Eatenton Latcherie

Drum Eatenton

Tom Skerritt

Drum Eatenton

Spud Jones

Sam Shepard

Spud Jones

Jackson Latcherie

Dylan McDermott

Jackson Latcherie

Sammy Desoto

Kevin J. O'Connor

Sammy Desoto

Owen Jenkins

Bill McCutcheon

Owen Jenkins

Aunt Fern

Ann Wedgeworth

Aunt Fern

Reviews

GenerationofSwine

You can tell from the start that this was adapted from the stage. The dialogue--for the most part--has the same earnest theatrics as your average play, and honestly it works fairly well in a knock-off Tennessee Williams kind of way. And the stage adaptation becomes even more evident when it shows itself to be a comedy tear-jerker. And, as I said, that's fine. It has pro-talent and it's always nice to bring the stage into your living room from time to time.

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kevin2019

"Steel Magnolias" is an emotionally barren experience throughout as it attempts to emulate the feeble "Beaches" (1988) and it largely accomplishes the same startling underachievement as that memorably lacklustre film. This time around we are introduced (or perhaps that should be we are subjected) to an assortment of constantly wittering women warbling on about a wealth of risible nonsense we are supposed to care about (or perhaps that should be find entertaining and funny), but in the main it is none of these things which is hardly surprising since much of it is aimed squarely at what will probably be a more appreciative female audience while the rest of us merely endure it - while wishing we were watching "Die Hard" instead - and we are never rewarded with anything of thought provoking consequence which might make any of it seem worthwhile.

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