Steel magnolias [videorecording] / Tri-Star Pictures presents a Rastar production ; screenplay by Robert Harling based on his play ; produced by Ray Stark ; directed by Herbert Ross.
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FilmPublisher number: 70247 | Columbia Tristar Home VideoSpoken language: English, Portuguese, Spanish Original language: English Subtitle language: Chinese, Korean, Thai Publication details: Culver City, Calif : Columbia Tristar Home Video, 2000.Edition: Special edDescription: 1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0767848896
- 9780767848893
- Steel magnolias (Motion picture).
- Director of photography, John A. Alonzo; editor, Paul Hirsch; music, George Delerue.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The title refers to those seemingly frail Southern belles who survive any and all deprivations through whims of iron. Robert Harling's original stage play was set exclusively in a Louisiana beauty parlor where an all-female cast of characters laughed, cried and compared menfolk. The film expands the playing field by including scenes at picnics, hospitals and the like, and by visually depicting the males who never appeared in the stage version. Dolly Parton plays the goodnatured beauty-shop owner, while Shirley MacLaine is the cantankerous town eccentric, decked out in grungy overalls and speaking fluent Trash. Well-to-do Sally Field bravely endures several assaults to her sensibilities, not the least of which is the illness (and subsequent death) of daughter Julia Roberts. The performances are first-rate, with the possible exception of Daryl Hannah's overemphatic portrayal of a gawky hairdresser. The film stumbles a bit in its depiction of the male characters as fools and deadheads, and in the final overlong hospital scenes involving the comatose Roberts, which play like a road company version of Terms of Endearment. Otherwise, Steel Magnolias is a prime example of ensemble filmmaking, lovingly coordinated by director Herbert Ross. (Sidebar: Herbert Ross was reportedly rather rough on Julia Roberts, deriding her lack of experience. The rest of the female cast rallied around Roberts and told the director to lay off or pay the price). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1989.
Special features: Director's commentary, deleted scenes, exclusive featurette, isolated music score, trailers, talent files, production notes.
Director of photography, John A. Alonzo; editor, Paul Hirsch; music, George Delerue.
Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Julia Roberts, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, Shirley MacLaine, Tom Skerritt, Sam Shepard.
"Six divas of the silver screen - Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis and Julia Roberts - come together as bosom buddies in this hilarious and heartwarming story of life, love and loss in a small Louisiana Parish. At the center of the group is Shelby Eatenton (Roberts), newly married and joyfully pregnant, despite the fact that her diabetes could make childbirth life-threatening. Terrified and angry at the possibility of losing her only daughter, M'Lynn Eatenton (Field) looks to her four closest friends for strength and laughter as she battles her deepest fears of death in order to join Shelby in celebrating the miracle of new life"--Container.
MPAA rating: PG.
DVD.
In English, Spanish, or Portuguese. Subtitles: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai. Closed-captioned.