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Steel Magnolias is a 1989 comedy-drama film based on a play by Robert Harling, who also wrote the screenplay. It stars Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Julia Roberts and others as a group of women in a small-town Louisiana beauty salon.
Steel Magnolias: Directed by Herbert Ross. With Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah. 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.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Herbert Ross
- 1989-11-22
- 1 min
- 'Steel Magnolias' was based on a true story. Actor and writer Robert Harling wrote the play based on the true story of his sister, Susan Harling Robinson, who died from complications with diabetes.
- The movie offered healing. Harling wanted his mother to leave the set when they filmed Julia Roberts's death scene, but his mother insisted on staying so she could see Julia get up and walk away after the director yelled cut.
- The film gave back to others. The nurses and other hospital staff seen in Julia Roberts' life-support scenes are actual medical professionals who tended to Harling's sister in her final days.
- It took 10 days to write. "The events that inspired it were so powerful that, after I found the story arena, it just poured out into my typewriter in a 24/7 tsunami of Southernness," Harling told Garden & Gun in 2013 about the speedy writing process.
Steel Magnolias. BAFTA FILM AWARD® nominee. Based on a play by Robert Harling. 21,040. IMDb 7.3 1 h 53 min 1989 X-Ray HDR UHD 16+. Comedy • Drama • Charming • Fun. Rent. HD $3.99. Buy. HD $12.99. More purchase. options. Available to rent or buy. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started. Details.
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Find out who starred in the comedy-drama film Steel Magnolias, directed by Herbert Ross and written by Robert Harling. See the full list of actors, producers, composers, and other crew members on IMDb.
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. Pivoting around the lively Truvy Jones' Louisiana beauty parlour, a tightly-knit band of friends, confront griefs, loss, life's unforeseen tragedies and ...
Time passes, and the women and their friends encounter tragedy and good fortune, growing stronger and closer in the process. Rent Steel Magnolias on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV, or...
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- Comedy, Drama
- PG