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Steel Magnolias

Rastar Productions

TriStar Pictures

United States of America

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Sally Field

Dolly Parton

Shirley MacLaine

Daryl Hannah

Olympia Dukakis

Julia Roberts

Tom Skerritt

Sam Shepard

Dylan McDermott

Kevin J. O'Connor

Bill McCutcheon

Ann Wedgeworth

Knowl Johnson

Jonathan Ward

Bibi Besch

Janine Turner

James Wlcek

Ronald Young

Nancy Parsons

Robert Ginnaven

Tom Hodges

Rick Hurst

Robert Harling

Clara Gabrielle

Daniel Camp

Norman Fletcher

Lori Tate

Robert Adams

Carol Sutton

Aja Sansone

Rodney Alan Fulton

Spencer Henderson

Sandra Asbury-Johnson

Gale J. Odom

Betsy Widhalm

Oscar J. Bienvenu Jr.

Teresa Beaudion

Gladys Mallard

Betty J. Dove

Travis Harrison

James Shapkoff III

Walker May

Robert R. Morgan

Roger D. McCann

Debbie McCann

Trent Dawson

Georges Delerue

John A. Alonzo

Ray Stark

Herbert Ross

Paul Hirsch

Victoria White

Andrew Stone

Neal Burger

Steven Wolff

Larry Kemp

Colleen Callaghan

Leigh Mitchell

Elliot Tyson

David Blair

Tom Bellfort

John Roesch

Wylie Stateman

Hugo Weng

Don Reddy

Martha Elcan

Ellen Heuer

Dan M. Rich

Frances Kolar

Hallie D'Amore

Michael D. Wilhoit

Greg Orloff

Robert Engelman

Scott Martin Gershin

Greg P. Russell

Lou Barlia

Carol A. O'Connell

Robert J. Litt

Carolyn Tapp

Al Overton Jr.

Mike Moyer

Garrett Lewis

Julie Weiss

Okowita

Lee Poll

Hub Braden

Edward Pisoni

Hank McCann

Gene Callahan

Shirlee Strahm

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.

"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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Sally Field

Dolly Parton

Shirley MacLaine

Daryl Hannah

Olympia Dukakis

Julia Roberts

Tom Skerritt

Sam Shepard

Dylan McDermott

Kevin J. O'Connor

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