Product Description
In the South, a diabetic girl decides to risk having a baby and is supported by her mother and four loyal friends.
Product Details
| ISBN | 0767848896 |
| Title | Steel Magnolias (Special Edition) |
| Directed By | Herbert Ross |
| Label | Sony Pictures |
| MPAA Rating | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| Aspect Ratio | 2.35:1 |
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| Original Release Date | 1989-11-15 |
| Brand | Sony |
| Studio | Sony Pictures |
| Starring | Shirley MacLaine,Olympia Dukakis,Sally Field,Julia Roberts,Daryl Hannah |
| Running Time | 117 minutes |
| Release Date | 2000-07-25 |
| Manufacturer | Sony Pictures |
| Publisher | Sony Pictures |
| Region Code | 1 |
| Theatrical Release Date | 1989-11-15 |
| UPC | 043396702479 |
| EAN | 9780767848893 |
| Number Of Discs | 1 |
| MPN | 043396702479 |
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Customer Reviews
TiggerReview by Tigger, 2010-08-18
This is one of my favorite movies I just love Julia Roberts and Dolly Parton, Sally Fieldsand Shirley McClain, Olimpia Dukakisand the other young blonde girl I can't thik of her name and that just drives me crazy because I have watched this movie at least a hundred times. Thi is a wonderful movie for the girls to get together and enjoy as a movie day. I highly recommend this movie.
A boring, badly made patriarchal melodrama
Review by Olga Bezhanova, 2010-07-16
This poorly made, boring flick is nothing if not profoundly patriarchal. The main story line revolves around a young woman who is willing to risk her life and die in order to produce a baby. Because the central goal of a woman's life is to make babies. Unless you can fulfill this goal, you are incomplete. So of course, the only reasonable thing to do is for a woman literally to kill herself in an attempt to produce a baby.
There are many other female characters who are mainly dedicated to endless hen-like clucking around the protagonist's attempts to have a baby, as well as interminable conversations about hair-styles, weddings, husbands, etc. In Steel Magnolias, we see women of all generations inhabiting a world of their own. It's a world of babies, beauty, and homemaking. It's a world of things that the patriarchal societies always mark as exclusively female. Men are supposed to be detached from these "womanly" interests and concerns, while women have no interest in the pursuits of men. The view of genders as profoundly divided by an unbridgeable chasm of difference is patriarchal.
Why this film has been hailed as a feminist classic and has become a perennial staple of "Feminist Film" courses is beyond me.
THIS IS A GREAT MOVIE, IT'S A CLASSIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review by M. Vick, 2010-07-08
I love this movie, It's such a classic. I can watch this movie over and over again. I even know the lines to the movie.
Well Worth Watching.
Review by Gary Peterson, 2010-06-13
I remember that when "Steel Magnolias" first came out it was highly acclaimed and Academy Award talk was heard everywhere, but I never saw the movie. Thus it was that my wife and I were browsing the low price DVD rack and happened to stumble upon it. Always enjoying a good late-night movie, we picked it up and watched it last night. It was excellent.
"Steel Magnolias" is built around the lives and friendships of six women in the Bayou country of Louisiana. It's a beautiful setting and the filming is excellent. The story unfolds at a glacial pace and you gradually feel that you are a part of the women's lives. Then a slowly developing crisis overtakes two of the women and, of course, involves everyone else deeply. Be sure you have a handkerchief or two within east reach as it becomes a very sad movie. And then resolution and life goes on. Parts of the movie are light and funny, but then the story draws you into deep sorrow. My wife thought it was very depressing. Me, I rolled with it with only the loss of a few tears now and then. In any case, the acting was excellent and was rewarded with a number of Academy Award nominations. It's a very well-worth-watching movie.
Gary Peterson
Laughing and Crying all in one
Review by Danelle Reetz, 2010-06-08
This is a great movie in that it is jammed with great actors and any movie that you are laughing one minute and crying the next is a winner to me!
