Steel Magnolias

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Runtime: 117 mins

Rated: PG

Release Date: 1989

Countries: USA

Languages: English

DIRECTED BY:

Herbert Ross

WRITTEN BY:

Robert Harling

CAST INCLUDES:

Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, Sally Field, Julia Roberts, Daryl Hannah, Dolly Parton

ANGELIKA’S NOTE

With brilliant direction from Herbert Ross (PLAY IT AGAIN SAM, THE TURNING POINT), this adaptation of Robert Harling’s play is a beautiful exploration into female friendship. With an all-star cast of Shirley MacLaine (TERMS OF ENDEARMENT, THE APARTMENT), Olympia Dukakis (MOONSTRUCK, IN THE LAND OF WOMEN), Sally Field (FORREST GUMP, LINCOLN), Julia Roberts (PRETTY WOMAN, ERIN BROCKOVICH), Daryl Hannah (KILL BILL: VOL. 1, WALL STREET), and country superstar Dolly Parton (9 TO 5, THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS), as Time Out raves, “[“Steel Magnolias”] makes a shameless bid for your heart, aiming to have you smiling one moment, sniffling the next."

SYNOPSIS

Six divas of the silver screen - Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis and Julia Roberts - come together as bosom buddies in this hilarious and heartwarming story of life, love and loss in a small Louisiana parish. At the center of the group is Shelby Eatenton (Julia Roberts), newly married and joyfully pregnant, despite the fact that her diabetes could make childbirth life-threatening. Terrified and angry at the possibility of losing her only daughter, M’Lynn Eatenton (Sally Field) looks to her four closest friends for strength and laughter as she battlesher deepest fear of death in order to join Shelby in celebrating the miracle of new life.

Steel Magnolias

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Runtime: 117 mins

Rated: PG

Release Date: 1989

Countries: USA

Languages: English

DIRECTED BY

Herbert Ross

WRITTEN BY

Robert Harling

CAST INCLUDES

Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, Sally Field, Julia Roberts, Daryl Hannah, Dolly Parton

ANGELIKA’S NOTE
SYNOPSIS

"It makes a shameless bid for your heart, aiming to have you smiling one moment, sniffling the next."

Time Out

"Steel Magnolias is so immersed by the conviction of its story that in a way it becomes an extension of our own human experience."

Cinemaphile.org

"Field does some spectacular underplaying through the bulk of the action, revealing layer after layer of the feelings of this kindly tempered, deeply worried mother."

Variety