Very best movie i ever watch

How sad is this?

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

This movie could be my new favorite. It's that one movie you see and immediately after watching you want to see it again. The story is so beautiful and full of laughter, friendship and tragedy. The acting is amazing! I wish I could write a review that does this movie justice. Watch it , watch it, watch it! Cry, laugh and then watch it again! So Good!!

I absolutely love this movie. The performances are superb and the emotional range of these women is incredible. I rarely laugh out loud when I'm watching a DVD alone at home but this movie had me laughing out loud and for so long my sides were sore and I had tears rolling down my face and this happens every time I see this film. And at the other extreme, Sally Field's performance throughout was wonderful but her portrayal of the insanity of such loss and grief in the scene at the cemetery is gut wrenching and explores the whole insane range of emotions that are experienced with such profound grief. I was sobbing and even after repeated viewings - I do watch movies that I really like several times over a period of weeks or months and even years - her portrayal of this grieving mother has me first crying and then laughing every time I watch it.The lifelong bonds between these women are wonderful in their depth and complexity and their acceptance of each others idiosyncrasies that are so well portrayed by these amazing actresses is heartwarming and funny and very real. These women portray friendship at its best.I highly recommend this film, chick flick or not, it's fun and funny and gut wrenching and heartwarming. I laughed until I cried until I laughed again.Why at least some of these women did not receive Academy Awards for their brilliant performances of this amazing script, I'll never understand.I must also give high praise to the use of silence in this film. So many moments are given such importance and impact by the use of silence especially those very long moments in the hospital around 'the decision' spoke volumes.I do hope it is not possible to wear out a DVD because I might just watch it enough to wear it out!

Steel Magnolias is a film that in my opinion is well worth watching. The story depicts a southern family living in a small town in Louisiana. The film has the viewer engrossed in the preparation of the daughter's wedding with the involvement of family and friends so typical of a southern community. Just as things are going wonderfully, life takes a terrible turn for this family. The movie has you laughing and crying as it is filled with humor and heartbreak and the story of the Eatenton family unfolds.Truvy's Beauty Parlor is the happening place where the women of Chiquapin Parish come to gather to share life's events. Truvy Jones (Dolly Parton), the owner of the parlor is the person who offers advice on dealing with life's problems. M 'Lynn Eatenton (Sally Fields) and her daughter Shelby (Julia Roberts) visit the parlor often in preparation for Shelby's wedding. Truvy has hired an assistant, Annelle Dupuy (Daryl Hannah) who is an interesting character who is very religious as well as very mixed up in her marriage as the viewer is unsure if she is married or not due to legal issues. Other women in the community also visit the parlor and give their input into the wedding and the gossip of the town. Ouiser Boudreaux (Shirley MacLaine) is a character that is ill tempered, negative and tells everyone exactly what she thinks; she is not well liked by some of the other characters in the movie, especially Drum Eatenton (Tom Skerritt) as they are constantly bickering and making cross remarks to each other. The only person who seems to like Ouiser is the character Clairee Belcher (Olympia Dukakis) who has been recently widowed; she is a friend to Ouiser but loves poking fun at her.Shelby's wedding occurs in the back yard of her home. Her father Drum is always into something from shooting birds out of the trees in preparation for the wedding to bickering with Ouiser. The wedding occurs and several months pass when Shelby announces that she is pregnant. The town is happy with the announcement except her mother who worries because Shelby is a diabetic with frequent episodes of illnesses and her body is showing signs of kidney failure. Shelby delivers her son Jackson but not long after, her body does go into kidney failure. M'lynn donates a kidney to her daughter but shortly after Jackson turns one, Shelby's body rejects her kidney and she falls into a coma. Shelby loses the battle and her family has to remove her from life support.The movie takes you through emotional ups and downs of all of these characters as their lives intertwine. The heartbreak of a family as they journey through the happiness of their daughter's wedding, the birth of her child and then the struggles of her disease as it takes her life and leaves young Jackson without a mother. By the end of the movie, you have laughed so hard at the bickering between Ouiser and Dunn with Clariee and her smart comments. M'lynn mourns the death of her daughter and the other characters support her with love and at the same time humor that takes the viewer from crying to immediate laughter.Steel Magnolias was released in 1989, written by Robert Harling and directed by Herbert Ross. The movie kept the viewer totally engrossed as they laughed and cried with the characters. It allowed the viewer to see life unfold through the good and the bad and showed how life goes on with the love and support of others and allowed the viewer to relate to different circumstances in life. The movie ended with M'lynn finally accepting her daughter's death with a new focus on life, her grandson Jackson. As the characters all gathered at an Easter egg hunt on Easter morning, Annelle goes into labor and is rushed to the hospital with the quick reality that life does go on and new life begins.

Robert Harling's off Broadway play based on the death of his real life sister had the good fortune of having him do the screen adaption. In expanding it for the big screen and shooting it in his native Louisiana, Steel Magnolias lost nothing of what he was trying to convey in his one set drama which only involved the six women who are the leads. In fact seeing them interact with other family and friends added well to Steel Magnolias.Still the root of the play is the conversations among six friends in Dolly Parton's Beauty Parlor in a small Louisiana bayou town. The friends are friendly enemies Olympia Dukakis and Shirley MacLaine and Sally Field and her daughter Julia Roberts. A new hairdresser is hired by Parton as it turns out on the day that Roberts is to be married and that is Darryl Hannah.Roberts is a diabetic and she takes some very big health risks when she gets pregnant and has a baby boy. These women despite a lot differences and some occasional cattiness are really tight and the health problems of Roberts unites them all.Steel Magnolias should have received a bit more recognition from the Academy than the nomination Julia Roberts got for Best Supporting Actress. If Steel Magnolias is nothing else it's an ensemble piece and recognizing Roberts over the others was unfair. For this story to work, all of the six females have to be good and all of them are.This story has everything, laughter, sadness, great joy, and great pathos. Sometimes the six women are putting out several of these emotions at one time.The best thing I can say about Steel Magnolias is that it is the kind of film you can watch over and over and be moved by it and maybe pick up an emotion you should have felt before in a particular scene. A rare and extraordinary work can do that and Steel Magnolias is a film for the ages.