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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.
Nov 22, 1989 · 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.
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.
Steel Magnolias. Based on a play by Robert Harling. 20,973 IMDb 7.3 1 h 53 min 1989. X-Ray HDR UHD PG. Comedy · Drama · Charming · Fun. Available to rent or buy. Rent. UHD $3.99. Buy movie. UHD $14.99 $4.99. More purchase. options. The price before discount is the median price for the last 90 days.
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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 ...
Steel Magnolias. List. NEW. M'Lynn (Sally Field) is the mother of bride-to-be Shelby Eatenton (Julia Roberts), and as friend Truvy Jones (Dolly Parton) fixes the women's hair for the ceremony...
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- Comedy, Drama
- PG