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Warner Bros. Pictures
details
Release Date: Jan 1, 1989
Running Time: 118 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Based on a true incident of screenwriter Harling's mother and sister. The story is set in a small-town beauty shop near New Orleans, and spans several years in the lives of the shop's owner and her customers.
cast + crew
Director
M'lynn Eatenton
Truvy Jones
Ouiser Boudreaux
Annelle Dupuy Desoto
Clairee Belcher
Shelby Eatenton Latcherie
Drum Eatenton
Spud Jones
Jackson Latcherie
Sammy Desoto
Play as Source Material
screenplay
reviews
December 8, 2000
Steel Magnolias566 (11-30-89)
No use fighting it. this laugh-getting, tear-jerking, part-affecting, part-appalling display of audience manipulation is practically critic-proof. Robert Harling's long-running off-Broadway play concerns six women who regularly congregate in a Louisiana beauty parlor. Now Harling, who based the story on his mother and sister and their gal pals, has gussied up his stage hit for the movies. And producer Ray Stark and director Herbert Ross have wisely hired the luminous… 
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