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Steel Magnolias is a 1989 American comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross and starring Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, and Julia Roberts.
Nov 22, 1989 · A group of women in a Louisiana beauty salon share their friendship, grief and life challenges. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, soundtracks and more.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Herbert Ross
- 1989-11-22
Steel Magnolias (1989) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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- '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.
A group of women in a Louisiana beauty salon share their lives, gossip, and tragedies in this heartwarming drama. Read the plot outline, synopsis, and reviews of the film starring Julia Roberts, Sally Field, Dolly Parton, and more.
This is the official trailer of "Steel Magnolias", a comedy-drama film based on a 1987 play by Robert Harling.© 1989 TriStar Pictures, Inc.
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Jul 28, 2017 · It's been 30 years since Steel Magnolias, the play that inspired the iconic film by the same name, opened off-Broadway. In the decades since its debut at New York's WPA Theatre, the script has spawned countless stage renditions across the country and abroad, including a 2005 Broadway run starring Delta Burke and Rebecca Gayheart, and TV ...
