Steel Magnolias, I just watched it again having not seen it for years,

The best performance in the movie is by Anne Wedgeworth.

Sally Field just gets cringe worthy when she does the no no and starts the Sybil voice otherwise I thing she does well in delivering emotion there. And she sets it up perfectly for Olympia's joke. She has a lot of strong moments especially when she finds out Roberts is pregnant.

Olympia is just pure charisma throughout.

Parton is ok in the happy parts but the scenes with Sam Sheppard are just awful.

Shirley is quite funny and fully committed.

Hannah is a bit odd. They needed someone more eccentric like a young Sandy Dennis type. Hannah just seems dumb.

Roberts apparently was really being constantly attacked by the director supposedly and I think a lot of the time you can see the fear in her eyes. She's best in the orange juice scene as is Field.

Tom Skeritt always seemed out of place in the film. He's married to Sally whose a mental health counselor and his kids seem sophisticated and they have a nice house yet he acts like a hillbilly who wandered out of Deliverance.

OLYMPIA owned the movie!

How'd Julia get the only Oscar nomination? Who bought that for her?

Julia Roberts is a movie STAR. And she will always be a star. She's great and charming and unusual looking and lovely. Adequate as an actress but more often quite excellent. She made a similar impact to what Audrey Hepburn did at the start of her career. Both Hepburns very much approved of Julia Roberts. She dazzled with relatable feminine charm and the shimmering light of stardom.

Not a fan. But the cast that they assembled was very impressive then and now. Dukakis is almost always phenomenal IMHO. Her very best work was "Tales of the City" and of course she was wonderful in Moonstruck as well. Field did just fine - some good scenes mixed with others that were predictably over-the-top. MacLaine is the best actress of the bunch arguably, but her role left little room to showcase any talent whatsoever. Roberts did a great job really; the radiance that would make her a megastar was definitely apparent in this film. I thought that she acted her part impressively. Dolly was Dolly - you just have to love her, but she always plays a caricature of herself. Hanna was a very week link. Remember when she was poised to become this huge movie star (critics and fans alike seemed to think so at the time)? Perhaps this was one of the roles that squashed that prophecy. Much like Sean Young, she just disappeared over time. Some of the boys were cute.

week = weak. Sorry.

I thought Sally was great in the cemetery scene.

The cemetery scene does really work. I remember seeing this in a theater and the hit Ouisa stuff got huge laughs. It really broke the tension.

R8 - I kinda agree. It was wild and frenetic which is what you experience at that time.

Olympia was GOLD is this film. As was Shirley. Darryl was...a departure I guess from all of her previous work?

Julia was good - and it was star making.

I just can't imagine it much different. Dolly is a special person for me - so I can't see her faults.

Julia was good, but at the same time her Southern accent was cringy.

Shirley & Olympia had the best lines.

Herb Ross tortured these women, especially Roberts and they all bonded over the long location shoot. I think Premiere magazine wrote a pretty interesting article at the time. He wouldn't let Roberts eat anything, so Dolly got in the habit of dividing her plate into three sections for the Father Son and Holy Ghost and she would pray over which part they would eat. This has got to be true, Dolly Parton is some magical being. Sally and Shirley were not afraid to clash with the director but the whole cast go along very well and it shows in this strangely enjoyable movie. It really is one the great all star cast ensembles.

Julia Roberts is from Smyrna, Georgia R11. She is southern.

[quote]Julia Roberts is from Smyrna, Georgia [R11]. She is southern.

I know—that's the killing part! Ross had her sounding like something out of GWTW. Her natural accent would have been more believable.

Sally didn't care for Ross's treatment of Roberts and Dolly...

Blush and bashful aren't good colors for Julia Roberts.

Maggie Smith didn't like Herbert Ross either. She said something negative about him on a 60 Minutes profile a while a go.

Let's try and recast Annelle. Who was a quirky comedic type like that in the late 80s. Geena Davis comes to mind from the other thread but she had just done Accidental Tourist which was a similar character. Who else?

Joan Cusack would have been good

Melanie Griffith could have been Arnelle too. Just some kind of freak. A church mouse. Hillbilly.

Melanie was over 30 years old and always speaking baby talk sexy. The part of Annelle was meant more for a pretty prudish girl with a defiant streak. We all know now that Daryl Hannah is autistic so that explains her whole career dysfunction to me. She had talent and ethereal qualities but she doesn't connect. Kill Bill isn't her best movie role by accident.

Those Herb Ross troll threads named some of the other actresses who tested for Annelle, but I can't remember. I know that Meg Ryan was originally cast as Shelby and Bette Davis tried to get the part of Quiser!

Jennifer Jason Leigh would have been a great Annelle

According to IMDB Bette Davis proposed having the film made with her as Ouiser, Katharine Hepburn as Claire and Elizabeth Taylor as M'Lynn. That may have been interesting.

I remember it being a big surprise when Sally wasn't nominated. (I guess that speech from the last time de-legitimized her)

The other nominees are all strong performances though. Accept Isabelle Adjani in Camille Claudel. Is that good? I never saw it.

I was about 14 or so when the film came out and was so excited about the all-star cast...except for the one I had never heard of. I remember thinking, 'with all these big stars, no-name Julia Roberts sticks out like a sore thumb. I had no idea who Roberts was (Mystic Pizza was not on my radar) and couldn't understand why they didn't cast Darryl Hannah (who had been a go-to ingenue of the mid-'80s) in the role of Shelby.

Meg Ryan was actually signed to play Shelby but got out of her contract so she could do When Harry Met Sally.

I actually think Field is terrific in the cemetary scene, her greatest gift as an actress is her ability to access raw emotion; that said, the scene simultaneously highlights her greatest weakness as an actress: her voice. An actor with a well-trained voice would have been able to utilize the emotion to assist her voice and allow for various levels of tone making the scene far more moving and effective. Field does not have that skill so instead, her voice undermines the scene as she allows the emotion to overtake her voice, so that everything just winds up being repetitively high-pitched and shrill, which is why many find the scene unintentionally humorous.

The clip in R12 shows men walking around a locker room totally naked. You have just triggered every precious, towel dancing snowflake. I hope you can live with yourself.

No, R28, I can't live with myself, but, I would rather a few seconds of naked football players than a life of nothing special.

W&W for R29!

[quote]The clip in [R12] shows men walking around a locker room totally naked. You have just triggered every precious, towel dancing snowflake. I hope you can live with yourself.

No dong, no trigger. I hope r28 can live with herself.

Jesus, R31, it was a joke.

No, r32. A joke is something one can laugh at.

[quote]We all know now that Daryl Hannah is autistic

Wait, what?

Lest anyone forget the beautiful score by Georges Delerue

She'll oraculate at your funeral.

The worst actor in the movie is the actual author of this dreck, Robert Harling, and he plays the minister at the wedding and the cemetery. He is supposed to be commiserating with other mourners but is instead watching his famous actors emoting in the forefront of the scene. He is forced to turn his eyes to the extra players in the scene.

R11, what about Olympia Dukakis's Boston accent?

Yes, R37, Robert is particularly awful pretending to make small talk with some woman when Ouiser is cutting the armadillo cake.

I always wondered about this scene. Was that Julia Roberts holding Jack Jr., or was it a stand-in? If it was Roberts, did they cut her dialogue to tighten the scene? It's just odd that the whole family is celebrating his first birthday, and his mother, who is holding him in her lap, has absolutely nothing to say.

The only thing separating us from the animals is our ability to accessorize.

For me, the hospital scene with Shelby dying transitioning to her drive to pick up Jack Jr. and picking him up at armadillo cake aunt's house was powerful. She didn't speak much, but she has a natural ability to tap into gears of emotion easily.

Everyone I saw it with (the movie, not the play) has been dead for 20 years. I can't even look at it. I tried. I saw a college production of it maybe ten years ago. Even there, I lost my shit.

I fell in love with the play when I saw it off bway with the original cast. They were the perfect ensemble and it's never played better. (and even then I couldn't decide if the play was all that good or if it was the relationships created by that cast.) The movie is off kilter for me because in the play, Arnelle is the odd man out. (and Hannah is awful) But they make a big deal of having Ouiser as the odd man out so it unbalances the whole thing.

A horrid regressive film that manages to be anti-feminist and anti-male at the same time.

Thanks, Judith Butler for your astute observations about Steel Fucking Magnolias

Sally’s greatest fault is her voice? If she’s accessing raw emotion the sound of her voice is primal, makes zero sense that her tone would ruin the scene.

A shaky girlish voice in an over emotive actress is going to make some people cringe. ME. A great actress is there to guide the audience through the character's experience, not to distract with wailing and flailing or too much business. Sally's choices are a bit predictable. Her voice shakes and rises and thins and her chin wobbles and her speech becomes halting.

I like the cemetary scene because I like the big laugh that comes from her hysteria. I always assumed she was supposed to appear over emotional and unhinged. Then I saw Sally Field in some other things and I realized that's just her style man. Even when the most heralded of actresses might scream or go for broke in a scene - think of Cicely Tyson running down the dirt road in Sounder or Kate Nelligan in Without a Trace or Streep in her long silent scream in the midst of Sophie's Choice....these actresses were guttural with grief or joy. They weren't milking it while talking and walking and giving a fucking escalating monologue. Sally took her moment but luckily Dukakis took it back from her after it became unbearable. Fields is a goofy actress but has some ballsy tricks. She's fun, even when she's being tragic.

Get off my bench!

I always cringed at Sally in the cemetery scene.

R40 When I saw this movie with my mother she commented it was foreshadowing that Shelby would be gone soon, it was a happy occasion that was made ominous by not actually seeing her face. I dont know if that was intentional or not but it made sense to me.

R40 The kid was throwing such a fit, his real mother had to hold him in that scene.

I thought this thread was gonna be about that movie on Lifetime with Queen Latifah and Phylicia Rashad. That was so good! So was it a remake?

No, Rose, it was a sequel.

R46, well excuse me Martha Nussbaum!

Steel Magnolias- Love Sally, Dolly, Shirley and the Greek. I thought the real waste was Sam Shepard. Julia Roberts- already a bore. I think this is one of Daryl Hannah's best roles. She changes at least four times in the picture- as a person- and her performance at the burial is very effective. I always wondered why they didn't use Dolly's songs. She was contacted to write them for the film. The film is still poorly written. The sons of Sally aren't real characters, and Dylan isn't a real character.

My favorite line: You are too twisted for color tv.

That Jackson, he is one big hangin' man.

Why was Herbert Ross such a bitch during the production?

Olympia, Shirley and Sally were in one movie. Dolly and Daryl seemed to be in another.

Julia just seemed to be so separate from everyone. People say this is starmaking for her but I don't see it at all. Pretty Woman, sure. This? No.

Love Olympia, despite her ever changing accent.

R59 living with Lee turned him into one.

That looks like an autopsy.

This is when I realized that Roberts was a movie star and a truly gifted comedienne. The orange juice scene is absolutely hysterical.

Several years ago my parents and I spent the afternoon driving around the town of Natchitoches, Louisiana looking at the locations used in the film. My mother is a Southern Belle and always love the scene where Darryl Hannah asks Dolly Parton for her back issues of "Southern Hair" magazine. As soon as we stopped outside of the house where Dolly's Hair Salon was, Mom grabbed some magazines and hopped out of the car. She posed for a photo of her recreating that scene.

I love your Mom, R64.

No mention of the hotness that was young Dylan McDermott?

I just saw this movie for the first time The locker room Scene !! Yumm yumm YUM at those delicious high school boy’s butts.

I would've shone in any of those roles. You know it's true.

R68 m you were busy filming the shitastic she-devil!

[Quote] m you were busy filming the shitastic she-devil!

I love She Devil. I say that as someone who hasn't seen a lot of Meryl's movies.

I’m surprised about the negative responses regarding Dolly. I thought she was perfect. The rest are hit and miss.

All the characters talk like drag queens.

That's fine, if that's what you like.

I found it too precious.

Poop

Is the playwright gay?

Is the playwright out?

A star-studded cast and then they had Julia, still pretty much an unknown, in one of the predominant roles, and the Director hated her...

So how did she get that part?

Hm, I wonder.

Are you saying Eric Roberts offered hole to Herb Ross?

(And is the Herb Ross troll still with us? He was great.)

Have we discussed the unsold TV pilot on here before? It's not surprising it wasn't picked up, but it did star some DL faves.

Roberts deserved it r15. Dolly didn't.

Roberts must have some people really trying to rewrite her history from all the gushing I've read on DL lately. She was a total cunt before retiring to raise her kids. She really did some evil shit to other women. Fuck her.

[quote]She really did some evil shit to other women. Fuck her.

Why would you ever say that???

Roberts--definitely a STAR. Not a great actress but OK and sometimes quite good in the right part. Sally Field's awful voice sounds like what I consider to be her "Gidget" voice. Sam Shepherd sucks the oxygen out of all his scenes, but he does that everywhere. Maclaine basically gave the same performance she did in her older roles--Terms of Endearment, Guarding Tess, Postcards from the Edge, etc.--basically brittle, overcontrolled versions of her earlier, ditsy roles. She was better in Postcards than here--in Postcards she was playing herself as much as she was playing a version of Debbie Reynolds. Darryl Hannah is wierder than the role needs to be--someone sweet but exceedingly naive would have been better. I suspect Shepherd and maybe Field were in this to make it into Oscar bait; Roberts was on the rise and probably helped make it bankable--yet something is off. She would have grown up with the suburban version of her character but doesn't nail it.

Sally’s cemetery breakdown in SM and Sally’s breakdowns in Soapdish are the same character. When I watch Steel Magnolias, I can never NOT see Celeste Talbert, star of The Sun Also Sets, whenever Sally is on screen. I enjoy her work, but she’s pretty much the same in everything she does.

R82 agreed when watching Forrest gump I wondered where his sister Shelby was.

[quote]Roberts was on the rise and probably helped make it bankable

I wouldn't say she made it bankable. She had really only done Mystic Pizza which wasn't that big a film.

That was the problem. The director really wanted Meg Ryan who opted for When Harry Met Sally instead. He was then angry to be stuck with Roberts and took it out on her.

Shirley had it out with Ross numerous times for his treatment of Roberts and became her protector. Ole Herb seemed like a nasty old man the whole shoot and would up with his biggest hit.

Honey, no. Sally Field is GOLD in the cemetery scene. People in the theater I was in were totally with her and weeping. You underestimate Miss Field at your peril. She has a rawness and realness that 99% of actors today can’t even touch. She has two Oscars for a reason, whether you like it or not

There's a continuity error in the locker room scene. If you watch MacLaine in the background she's watching the boys with her compact mirror but then she has a closeup of her taking it out of her purse.

[quote]Sally’s cemetery breakdown in SM and Sally’s breakdowns in Soapdish are the same character. When I watch Steel Magnolias, I can never NOT see Celeste Talbert, star of The Sun Also Sets, whenever Sally is on screen. I enjoy her work, but she’s pretty much the same in everything she does.

As was every alter she portrayed in Sybil. They all had that same baby girl cadence.

Sally and Julia have some glaringly bad accents at times in this film which is surprising. They both are good actors in my opinion. Love this movie.

Some real fine jock ass in the locker room seen, Yummy!

I caught the movie and enjoyed it. It just worked.

I couldn’t get past Julia’s wretched Southetrn accent

Dolly has never been an actress, but I love her just the same.

R89 daryl also Did Crystal Bernard audition for the shelby role?

I love crystal’s accent and think she would nailed Shelb! .they should have cast a true southern lady.

Replace “SHELBY!” with “ABBY!” and you have Sally’s performance on E.R. as Maura Tierney’s bi-polar mom.

Julia Roberts grew up in Georgia.

Any people disparaging Our Sally will be hunted down and dealt with severely.

Frankly, I much preferred Eunice Higgins' subtle and nuanced version of the 'Give My Daughter The Shot' scene over Shirley's flat reading.

They were both high. They were smoking everything but their shoes. All gay men are named Rick, Mark or Steve. The older you get, the uglier you get. It’s almost time for the Easter bunny. These are lines my circle of friends use regularly. They should have done this movie entirely without men. They don’t add much.

They all have terrible accents in this except for Dolly.

Drink the juice, you cunt!!!

I remember reading there was conscious effort for them to have different accents. Julia and Sally were supposed to have the same one and then the other four were paired up too (I forget who with who, Dolly of course just did Dolly.)

I forget the reason why they had what they did but I remember reading they were very specifically taught their accents by dialogue coaches. (that is why Julia didn't have her own.)

One of the funniest exchanges in the movie is the Anne Boleyn bit with MacLaine and Dukakis, but no one remembers it.

tell it to us r103

Clairee: Anne Boleyn had six fingers! Ouiser: Who's Anne Berlin? Clairee: Anne BO-leyn! She was one of the six wives of Henry VIII. She had six fingers! Ouiser: What happened to the other four? Clairee: She had 11 total! Ouiser: Are you trying to confuse me, Clairee?

Shit..Apologies for formatting. ^

lol r105 That was good. (and yes I forgot that part.)

DL Tao dancing legend Bonnie Franklin as Ouiser.

Bonnie was actually a much better theatre actress than she ever was as a leading lady on a TV sitcom, especially in her later years.

Here's Gilligan's Island star Dawn Wells as Ouiser.

Anyone see Cathy Rigby's M'Lynn?

“Shelby, have you had your period this month?”

I wonder if Sally Field and Cathy Moriarity discussed the movie vs. tv pilot on the set of Soapdish.

Drink your juice, Shelby

Watching alice reruns on Logo, it’s funny alice had an actress friend named Julia Roberts.

r23, I think that IMDB tidbit comes from this article.

Were Shelby’s two younger brothers sick too? Neither one of them ages a day in the film.

This thread would be incomplete without mentioning Lee Radziwill.

[quote]DL Tao dancing legend Bonnie Franklin as Ouiser.

Dammit, Shelby!!!

Drum, hold me.

Dolly is just an angel in this. A couple of her jokey lines fall flat, but her sweet scenes and even her crying scenes are effective.

Herbert Ross was a cunt, but a smart cunt. By being such a tyrant, the women all banded together which helped create such great chemistry onscreen.

Would you call that grape, or aubergine?

[Quote] Sally’s cemetery breakdown in SM and Sally’s breakdowns in Soapdish are the same character. When I watch Steel Magnolias, I can never NOT see Celeste Talbert, star of The Sun Also Sets, whenever Sally is on screen.

It took me way too long to discover that movie.

I also think Dolly is fantastic in this movie. She's not the lead but brings most of the "heart" to the ensemble. I disagree with the person who said she's not an actress. I always wanted her to strip off the make-up and wig and go super dark by playing a broke down, down on her luck alcoholic or something. Oscar bait for sure. Now, I'm afraid she's just a tad too plastic and long in the tooth.

R121 I read somewhere that our beloved Dolly and that ghastly Herbert Ross had a ‘discussion’ in which ghastly Herbert told our Dolly she couldn’t act.

Dolly, quick witted as ever, retorted “You didn’t hire me to act, you hired me to be Dolly Parton.”

[quote]Would you call that grape, or aubergine?

I'm still working on blush vs. bashful.

I can’t believe it took 124 posts to mention DL fave Ann Wedgeworth.

See r1 and beg for forgiveness.

I honestly thought that all of the actors in this movie did a great job and it is one of my favorite films. If you need a good cry then watch Sally Field breakdown after Shelby's funeral.

People actually think Julia was good in this?

Isn't it telling that her performance in the "juice," scene is mocked mercilessly in pop culture?

R128 I'm not trying to troll this thread, I'm really not and I am definitely NOT a Julia fan - but I thought Steel Magnolias was a good movie and that the diabetic fit scene was good.

Please feel free to convince me otherwise if I have overlooked something. Aside from that fact that Dolly Parton gave the weakest performance.

Darryl Hannah is the weakest link in the film. The rest are perfection. Even Dolly with her limited acting ability is able to create a lovable and genuine character with Truvy.

Winona Ryder should have been cast in the Darryl Hannah role.

[quote]Winona Ryder should have been cast in the Darryl Hannah role.

How old is the character supposed to be?

Speaking of Dolly and Julia...

I saw this happen twice.

Both times Dolly was being interviewed, I think along with Sally Field, about Steel Magnolias when someone brought up a story that Julia told. It was a hot day on the set and everyone was complaining except for Dolly, who was swinging on swing in between takes. When Julia asked Dolly why she wasn't complaining like the rest of them Dolly said that she had promised herself a long time ago that she would never complain about a paying job and that she would simply be grateful to have the job. Julia's telling of this story was meant as a compliment to Dolly.

At the mere mention of Julia's name a began to form on Dolly's face. When talking about that moment Dolly made no mention of Julia, didn't say anything nice about her and just pretty much answered the question and blew the story off.

One definitely got the impression that the well-liked and well thought of Dolly did not like Julia. As in, at all.

When is the remake coming?

They already did the African-American version of Lifetime.

As Annelle:

Lili Taylor Mare Winningham Ricki Lake Shelly Duvall (too old but otherwise perfect) Christine Baranski (ditto) Jane Adams

They've done a black remake now Hollywood needs to do a remake with just British actors.

[quote]They've done a black remake now Hollywood needs to do a remake with just British actors.

And call it what? Steel Teeth?

[quote]If you need a good cringe-inducing moment then watch Sally Field breakdown after Shelby's funeral.

Fixed it for you.

If there was a movie where you could first spot Julia’s star quality, it was Mystic Pizza, not this. She was kind of wan in this and I agree she should have just used her normal accent.

I actually liked Dolly the best of anyone in this - she has such a natural, warm presence that’s totally effortless, it’s really a shame her film career never really happened.

The rest have their share of cringe worthy moments (well maybe not Olympia). Daryl Hannah - what WAS that performance??!? I will still never understand how she ever “happened,” at all.

Rue McClanahan should've been Ousier.

SPLASH, r140.

Upper middle class women in the South, of that or anytime, might, just might, pal around with a hairdresser, but never with a trailer park hairdresser's assistant.

Blade Runner, R142.

And we've overlooked the obvious for who would have been better as Annelle...

Lori Singer!

R140 'Mystic Pizza' is one of my all-time favorite movies but, with all due respect, Julia's star quality began to decline more and more after that movie.

Side note.. I somehow forgot Marc Singer was Lori Singer's brother... and had no idea that their cousin is Bryan Singer!

Shelby would be tickled pink...

I was going to add Blade Runnerr144, but Splash was all about her and if I recall correctly, she was charming in it.

^ for r144

If Jazz Jennings married Bryan Singer....

Dolly is the most charming thing in the movie when she's talking to Sam Shepard about... makeup.

[quote] If Jazz Jennings married Bryan Singer....

I always thought Shelby's diabetic reaction in the beginning was the film's way of pointing out that Sally Field's character was rather controlling.

M'Lynne had to be controlling... Shelby was obviously too stupid to manage her life responsibly!

[quote]I always thought Shelby's diabetic reaction in the beginning was the film's way of pointing out that Sally Field's character was rather controlling.

It was simply a very obvious foreshadowing of her death. (A death that could have been easily avoided had she not been so fucking stupid, but.....)

Stop it R154 and R155! Stop it! Where's my purse???

I hate the entire film. Just like TEA WITH MUSSOLINI, the performances are arch and mannered. Every actress recites their lines as if every word was a gem. Rhinestones are more like it. Olympia’s southern accent was execrable and the others were varying degrees of shitty. And the men were all relegated to one dimensional cutout dolls. I don’t know why women and their gay bffs tolerate this film.

Think about how selfish Shelby was. She wanted a baby so she could have a moment of happiness and not a lifetime of nothing specials!!!

So she was basically saying that she couldn't have any true happiness with an adopted child.... and that she was also more into her own moment of happiness and didn't give a shit about leaving a child mourning a dead mother for the rest of its life!!!

Stop it R157 and R158! Stop talking about me like I'm not here!

R158 Sigh! Shelby already explained that no adoption agency would consider her because of her health problems!

Well, that what was written in the script anyway.

So blame the script not Shelby!

Now somebody find the young lady her purse and get her mama out of here!

R157 Phylicia Rashad! When did you get here gurl?

It was bullshit, R160. She's a liar.

She could have bought one! Jackson was willing! AND she could have had a surrogate. But she didn't give a shit. She was more than willing to have her happiness and fuck everyone else's! Now Jack, Jr. is pimping his hole in FL for meth because he grew up without his mother!

Oh now R162 honey. Buyin' a baby on the black market comes with great legal and emotional risk, you know that. I'm glad Shelby didn't pay buyin' a baby no never mind. I liked Shelby, she wasn't the type to do her own hair.

R154, R155, R158 and R162 Now Shelby is an angel up there lookin' after all of us. Except for all of you!! I'll pray for you all, I'll pray for God and Shelby to forgive you.

[quote] Now Shelby is an angel up there lookin' after all of us.

Shelby is sucking cocks in hell.

Gaaaasp!! Jack, Jr. is Satan's spawn!

Shelby didn't kill Shelby! Shelby's selfishness didn't kill Shelby, it was the work of the fallen one!

Help me Jesus! Help me Jesus! May the power of Christ compel Jack, Jr.!

They should've killed Shelby off in the first act and made Clairee's nephew Marshall be Jackson's best friend who comforts him in his time of loss. Jackson discovers he's in love with Marshall and this begins a captivating tale of the forbidden in the steamy south. Action moves from Truvy's salon to Ouser's porch where the guys spill tea every afternoon with the crusty bitch as they discuss who's closeted in Chinkapin Parish.

Does Annelle do anal?

Abs of Steel Magnolias - LMAO!!

I loved Weeza.....

I didn't like Shelby's entitled brothers,her husband or the religious fanatics husband.They epitomized the modern caucasian male.Opinionated assholes with delusions of self importance.

An the religious fanatics husband had scary demon eyes

Stop it R167, R168 and R170, stop it! If you don't stop I'm gonna leave! Where's my purse??

Go frighten fish you fish.

[quote]So she was basically saying that she couldn't have any true happiness with an adopted child.... and that she was also more into her own moment of happiness and didn't give a shit about leaving a child mourning a dead mother for the rest of its life!!!

And condemned her mother to deal with the consequences of only having a single kidney for the rest of her life.

R173 Gosh...Shelby was a bit of taker, wasn't she? Had to have her own bio baby, had to have M'Linn's kidney.

No wonder the funeral and post-funeral scene fell kind of flat. Shelby is a hard person to grieve for.

How in the HELL do you all think I feel???!! I had at least 30 more good years left!!!

Neither her dad nor her brothers seemed particularly dad at the funeral. Just sayin’.

Sad!

R116 That's true. Both at the hospital and at the funeral - you could totally tell they were all just acting like they were sad.

Hmmm. Interesting.

Strange how "sweet" Shelby allowed her groom to have a cake that looked like a bleeding armadillo when you cut into it. Kind of sick if you think about it.

Oh! And whatever you do Mr. Screenwriter, don't include that Shelby broke her fiancée's Dylan McDermott's heart by getting cozy with Richard Gere on the set of 'Pretty Woman'. Just conveniently leave that out.

I've always enjoyed the film, but I find it funny that I once read that Herbert Ross wanted everyone to use the same dialogue coach, including Dolly...even though she's from the south and is the only one who gets the accent right. Everyone else sounds like they're in the sequel to Gone With the Wind.

I guess Ross was mad at her for not learning the accent.

R181 Agree. Aside from Dolly Parton those southern accents sound very, very fake.

But I too like the film anyway.

[R179]

That armadillo cake chef dancing...omg An grey frosting ,with blood red for the cake....such a funny,funny moment in the film

I agree Annelle's husband light colored eyes and chugging beer ways totally creeped me out

So you all think the father/brothers never loved Shelby,that's deep

R183 Well Shelby did say they both should've been "drowned at birth". Words hurt too R183! Then you have the bleeding armadillo.....sorry, something was definitely up with THAT family.

The father, with the gun, scaring the birds away?

Of course they loved and grieved for poor Shelby R183.

I agree, R151. I thought she was whiny and annoying when she was complaining about how Violet, Judy and the other girls in the office would avoid her.

When I first saw the film in the theater, I couldn't wait for Shelby to die-and I didn't even know she was going to. Such an unlikable character.

R157 is spot on and that’s exactly why it’s not a good movie (I still enjoy watching it, but I recognize it’s crap). That’s also what critics mean I think when they say something is “overwritten.”

Good mawnin'! Good mawnin'!

I always liked the scene where they close the trunk of the car lightly on the eggs, and when they open it it looks like a nuclear bomb went off.

R187 So the part where Shelby realizes something's wrong, collapses, goes into a coma and eventually dies was the "feel good" part of the movie for you? And then the ending was just kind of, "meh"?

I hated shelby also. Quiser and Clairee make this movie!! Without them it’s crap!

Cockroach cakes are much more festive....

I think Sally Fields character blamed Shelby's husband. Which i understand, he knew she was sick but didn't get a vasectomy to prevent pregnancy. I love when Field snapped at him in the hospital. I wanted to slap him myself.....

Quiser and the radio tycoon were cute together.Ud watch a story about their marriage.

Was Dolly Parton's story marriage like her real life marriage?

R194 Well they do show Shelby's husband signing off on the forms needed to take Shelby off of life support. Maybe that was symbolic.

[quote] Shelby broke her fiancée's Dylan McDermott's heart

Oh, dear. Do you think male massage therapists are masseuses, too?

[R196]

Shelby dated and married horrible men,they all were selfish

Was shelby supposed to be retarded?

"Winona Ryder should have been cast in the Darryl Hannah role."

Winona Ryder could do quirky well (it's her forte) could not have managed a Southern accent to save her life.

Loving this thread.

Jackson was definitely at fault. Shelby gave birth to what she hoped would be a bandage baby. Remember the scene where she desperately tells her mother that she "thinks it will help"

Jackson was definitely at fault. Shelby gave birth to what she hoped would be a bandage baby. Remember the scene where she desperately tells her mother that she "thinks it will help"

Whoops. Double post.

R202 She risked her life to please a man , so southern! He was hot as fuck though.

[R202]

Thanks ,i thought he put pressure on Shelby to give him a child....smh

Julia did exhibit genuine star power in it. Yes she was the least known at the time but you could see what was on the horizon. She became the biggest movie star of them all. I remember when she got her nom Joan Lunden said on GMA "Think of all the big stars in that movie and she gets it". It was the her entrance into the big leagues. And the Academy saw it coming. BTW all the women in it besides Aspie Hannah still love her to this day. She's still very tight with our Sally and Shirley.

They need to do one of those People Magazine reunion photo sessions before we lose Olympia and Shirley.

R207 they might pull a De Havilland.

Well don't tell us R207. Email People magazine and warn them that Olympia and Shirley each probably have almost both feet in the grave and that they should get them in picture with all of the other aged Steel Magnolias cast members - quick!! (Also tell them not to bother contacting Dylan McDermott, what with the whole Shelby/Richard Gere thing, McDermott wouldn't show up anyway.)

Fact check! Is a cookie or a glass of juice better?

R209 you speak the truth Miss Julia quickly moved on from her engagment to lovesick MCDermont to fuck Gere without batting an eyelash. It's Hollywood. Poor Dylan had no warning.

Truvy sure didn't have many customers,how could she afford to hire Annelle.

I always forget this was filmed in Louisiana

I knew the moment I met her she was a slut.

I never understood why Shelby had her baby but still had to knock herself out keeping her nursing job. Stay home, take care of your baby and drink your Orange juice. Your husband is a rich lawyer. Why are you shelping around the hospital all day?

[R214]

Shelby wanted to help everybody,it was in her nature.I think she was a sweet soul....married to a pompous bastard.

What kind of husband knowingly allows his wife to risk her life she he can get a child.

I bet he had life insurance on Shelby too.

An probably had a mistress waiting in the wings

R215 plot twist , the “mistress waiting in the wings” was a man who looked just like him. They have Shelby’s baby and the money..

I never understood why she didn't get her dumb ass checked out at the hospital at the first sign of trouble.

What exactly happened to Shelby? How did she end up in a vegetative state?

R218 Her body rejected her mothers kidney because she was a dumb bitch

"Stay home, take care of your baby and drink your Orange juice."

I'm not just lol! - that actually made me laugh out loud.

Stop it R217 and R219! Stop it!

R218 Kidney failure or a diabetic coma. kidney failure leading to diabetic coma. Not sure.

R211 Sweet Shelby also stomped on Liam Neeson's heart.

R215 Angel Shelby who is up there looking after all of us now told me to tell you that she'll look after you too.

R212 Turvy's was only a part of the story on her slow days. Otherwise she was busier than a one-armed paper hanger. (Think the pressure drove Annelle to join an extreme Christian group.)

Did they ever figure out what Annelle was praying about in that one seen when they are all in the beauty shop? Right around when they threw Annelle a Halloween-themed bridal shower?

What are , M’lynne, Truvy, Quiser, Anelle and Clairee up to now? I know Anelle is probably as big as a house.

R217 I believe you just exposed a previously overlooked plot-hole.

Well I think it was extremely irresponsible of Shelby to leave a child unattended while a pot of spaghetti sauce (probably Ragu) boiled away on the stove. When Jackson comes in, he picks up the kid and promptly sets him down again next to the boiling pot. He doesn't even turn the burner off. Fuck them both as parents.

I think someone did finally did get around to shooting Quiser.

R229 I noticed that too! I'm sorry but completely losing consciousness is not an excuse!! Nor is attending to the almost lifeless body of your young wife/mother of your child!!

Julia Roberts makes the funniest noise when she's pretending to fall back from picking up Jackson. Shelby's suggestion? Call 911? Nope. "Let's call daddy!"

She lost so much weight between Mystic Pizza and this. Even in Pretty Woman she had put on maybe a couple of pounds after this movie. I don’t think he forehead vein had ever been more prominent.

Anyone who thinks Field isn’t in control of both her voice and the audience’s emotions, clearly didn’t see her on Broadway in “The Glass Menagerie”, or as Mercedes Ruehl’s replacement in “The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?”.

Agreed R234. She is amazing on stage.

This is a terrible movie. It was entetaining enough on stage but what an awful film.

such a well-reasoned, convincing commentary, r236.

[quote]Did they ever figure out what Annelle was praying about in that one seen when they are all in the beauty shop? Right around when they threw Annelle a Halloween-themed bridal shower?

They cut the line from the play that Dolly's character says. They are all puzzled by her praying and ask why she's doing it. Dolly's character says she doesn't know. "She left on that bus trip a totally normal person and came back a christian." I guess the filmmakers figured that line wouldn't play in the south.

Annelle was living in sin.Both her and her crazy eyed Bartender beau were hypocrites

I think Annelle was more of a whore,she bearly knew that bartender.Next thing you know he is standing in her screen door in a t-shirt,chugging pabst blue ribbon,making demands.Shelby had the decency to marry.....Annelle didn't

Can we all agree that Darryl Hannah gave the worst performance of all the leads?

[R240]

Agreed......she was worse then Shelby,by a mile

How does serving ice cream with that cupa cupa cupa recipe cut the sweetness? Like ice cream isn't sweet?

They could've tied this into Shelby's episode at the beginning and had Truvy open a can of fruit cocktail, grabbing a strainer and holding it over Shelby's mouth.

R240 Disagree. I thought Hannah was uncharacteristically good in this film.

R239 Annelle was a "whore"? R239 Are we in a bad place right now and lashing out at everyone?

R238 Thank you for clarifying that.

R236 needs to see more awful films to get a better idea of what an awful film is.

[quote] BTW all the women in it besides Aspie Hannah still love her to this day. She's still very tight with our Sally and Shirley.

Spill the juice, r206. Has Hannah made negative comments about Julia or is this speculation/rumors?

R247 "Spill the juice." AH HA HA HA HA!

Family Guy: Julia Roberts ("ME! ME! ME!") LOL!

Wouldn't be surprised if Hannah did come for Julia Roberts....ole cherry coke jezabel

R250 You think Hannah shook off her autism and laid into Roberts at one point?

Guys, you do know there isn’t ONE southern accent right? Different towns in different states have different accents.

You can go to one town in TX where they have one southern accent and then another town and the accent is very different. And then another and there’s no Southern accent, or a very light one.

You all sound uncultured.

According to Shirley, Darryl was always out "Getting pizza" when it came time to do group interviews. I don't think she was on the Donahue episode that they all did together to promote the movie.

I don't think there was any discord, just that Darryl didn't seem to really be as close as the rest of them were.

[R250]

I can see it.........

R18 Fun fact - Jane Wiedlin from the Go Go's auditioned for the part of Annelle and was favored over most others who were considered for the part. However, producers wanted a bigger name in the movie, since they already had a relative unknown in the cast with Julia Roberts.

If the cemetery scene is cringeworthy it’s because of the appalling script. “Ah find it amusin.’ “ Nobody talks like that anywhere!

I hate you whores. This thread is so good that I bought the movie on iTunes and am now watching it. It’s been YEARS since I’ve seen this one.

They used to play it on The WB and UPN and FOX all the time when I was a kid and early teen. They hardly show these films any longer.

And I never watched the Lifetime remake. I do want to though. I love Phylicia Rashad. She’s beautiful! And doesn’t age.

[R257]

Lifetime remade it.....oh my stars,i must have it

I had no idea,thanks for heads up

Anne Wedgeworth and her red velvet armadillo cake were the best part of the movie:

"Do you only do armadillos?"

"Oh, no. I can do anything. Except snakes. I don't have the counter space."

That line kills me every time.

Avoid it like the plague, r258.

Sally Field's acting in the scene where the newlyweds are driving off into the sunset is laughable. That grimace on her face while she's trying to cry...lol.

R260 I doubt it’s that bad.

Was Anelle guilty of harlotry?

Oh, poor R242.

[R263] For cherry cokes

[R260]......oh no,did they mess it up.....smh

[R263]

She didn't even want to go to Shelby's nuptials. Remember, she had nothing to wear.Making Truvy and M'Lynn get her some party clothes like a spoiled child.Went to the wedding and picked up the bartender....... Shelby was a saint compared to that.

Marshall was a cute piece of ass. I’d love to see him and young DyLan McDErmott in a compromised position.

R253 It is well-known that Hannah has shyness and possible autism-related problems. I don't think doing media interviews is her forte. To top that off Hannah came from a moneyed family (JFK, Jr. would've married Hannah for HER money, not the other way around) and her wealthy mother was able to indulge Hannah and her issues.

She never seemed like a bad person though.

R242 OMG! That would've been a GREAT scene! Sally Fields holding Julia Roberts' mouth open while Dolly Parton stood over Roberts with a can of fruit cocktail saying, "Wait, wait now honey, I gotta this juice into your mouth. Okay, here we go". That would've been perfect.

Should I get her a cookie? No, no, fruit cocktail juice is better.

R257 If you don't see the irony of watching someone wants us to "forget the women" on the Lifetime channel in a pro-female movie makeover then we can't help ya' honey.

R255 I had the beat! I HAD THE BEAT! Darryl Hannah didn't have the beat!

R266 Annelle was pure evil.

To the poster saying Blade Runner is what made Hannah a star, I think Splash had more to do with it. She was very charming in it.

I did like her a lot in Blade Runner.

And I like her in Steel Magnolias. Shocked so many diss her.

I loved the Georges Delerue soundtrack.

One thing I will say about Roberts is that she looked so pretty In this movie! Very All American, young and glowing. Very Angelic !

R273 It was Splash that put Darryl Hannah on the map and I loved her in it. She was great in Steel Magnolias, she did a much better job than Julia Roberts.

Also where was Dylan McDermotts family? He’s always with Shelby and hers, which is fine as they live near them and a lot of times the man keeps the woman near her family and he will relocate, but his family was never around. Ever.

McDermott's mother was at the wedding and looked after Jack, Jr. while Shelby was dying. Maybe she was all the family that he had.

R278 I didn’t. Now that makes me feel like an asshole and sad for him

Now, now R279, how could you have known?

A lack of emotional support while growing up is probably what drove Jackson to overachieve by becoming a high-powered attorney.

Would a manicure make you feel better?

I'd love to be able to put "Valedictorian of the Hairdo Class" on my LinkedIn profile.

I hate when movie posters have names over actors but they don't match. Steel Magnolias is the worst offender.

[quote]I had the beat! I HAD THE BEAT! Darryl Hannah didn't have the beat!

Darryl knows that *I’m* the one with the beat Jane.

R227 The baker/Jacksons aunt Fern was like his mother who I think there was a brief explanation about him not having a mother. And he had family, they were simply outdoorsy that's all...

R277, not 227.

R284

R284's been smoking everything but his shoes. Jackson's parents are seen walking with him at the funeral and the mother is seen at the weddin' reception.

R283 You did have the beat and played the beat on Hannah's face and then John-John came to her rescue.

Pinhead from Hellraiser actually made the damn thing.

Julia Roberts was awful in this movie, She should have cut her hair rather than get that sally jessie raphael wig.

I don’t think Roberts was awful. I think you all just love bashing her.

When she first appears shes meh cause her accent was off but she got better as the movie flowed. Her accent was more consistent from the juice scene on. And no she wasn’t bad in that scene.

This and Mystic Pizza, are the only Julia Roberts movies I like.

I know in the actual play, you never actually seen the men, but as a result, the men in the movie are all such non-entities. The only one I even think is likable is Drum and that's only because Tom Skerritt is likable.

I always found Shelby unbearable. She's a version of the sister of the guy who wrote the play. She too died of complications of diabetes due to an ill advised pregnancy, I guess he idolized her because she's described in the play as "the prettiest girl in town" and is portrayed as some kind of perfect angel who only wants to help other people and whose dearest wish is to have a baby of her own, despite the fact that a pregnancy could destroy her health. Blech! She's supposed to be admirable but she always seemed to me to be no that bright. She talks in cliches; "he really wants a son so bad he can taste it" "you're ready to spit nails because you can't call the shots." And oh my God that line that's supposed to be so iconic: "I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special." Gag!

As a kid I was very into the boy who played one of Sally's sons, the one with the longer Flock of Seagulls type hair.

[R293]

That line is iconic

Agree R295.

That is just it, Roberts refusal to cut her hair lead to a really bad wig. No matter how good the performance, I just keep looking at the 3.99 wig from woolmart.

I thought she was so good in the scene where she tells her mom she’s having the baby.

Stop it R293 and R297! Stop it! If you don't stop me, my purse and my very expensive, realistic wig are going to leave! Mama!

The problem was Fields was so much better. Her low key response was sublime. She played the scene so right, realizing her daughter wanted a child just as much as she wanted to protect her daughter.

If roberts was trying to make Shelby come off like an annoying retard then she succeeded.

[R299]

Then put your dukes up.....and stop selling wolf tickets.

Your like Weeza and we all want to swing at you

The question wasn't what made Daryl Hannah a star, it was why did she ever happen at all. And the post above is correct, Blade Runner. That's what allowed her to keep giving us her continued freak, Aspie, so uninspired you're not sure if she's dead, characters.

[quote]She never seemed like a bad person though.

HAHAHAHA. I might have something to say about that!

I completely forgot that M'Lynne gave that brat a kidney.

Shelby really was a "taker," and a selfish little bitch!

R303 I loved her in SPLASH and Steel Magnolias. And SPLASH was a far bigger hit than Blade Runner ever was.

You guys are cruel. Shelby was clearly someone who was very dependent on others. It’s very obvious.

She’s one of those young people who still need mom and dad on the low but in their minds they don’t. Or they need their boyfriend/husband to lead them etc.

Even when she would make her own bold decisions like cutting her hair she would second guess it and need someone else to make her feel she made the right choice (her mom).

Shelby was M'Lynn's child, what did you all expect her to do.Deny her a kidney.

What kind of parents are you????

R306 you may well love Splash, and yes, it made her a star.. but again, Blade Runner is what gave Hannah the opportunity to do Splash.

R308 she wouldn't have needed the damn thing if she hadn't fucked up her body by selfishly wanting a baby so she could leave her few minutes of happiness while destroying the lifetimes of her husband, mother, and child!!!!

R309 that is true. Sorry, I thought you were saying BR was what made her a star. Not at all. But it gave her clout and exposure.

Julia was really good in this scene and held up well against Field.

And she looks so pretty. Some of y’all are harsh on her portrayal of Shelby.

[R310]

At the request of her selfish husband,don't try and forget that part

Side note - who knew that Michelle Pfieffer turned down the role of Madison in Splash?

I find it fascinating how many well known roles she's had.

No, R313. He offered to buy some babies. She didn't want them because she was selfish and can only love something that came from her!

R310 her husband played a big role in her decision. He’s a stupid fuck who knew better. He should have just bought a baby if they couldn’t adopt.

I would have liked to see Laura Dern as Annelle, rather than Daryl Hannah...

R317 THANK GOD NO.

Hannah brings a groundedness to her roles that Dern doesn’t outside of Jurassic Park.

Roberts won the supporting actress globe for it. If Pretty Woman would have come out during the voting period do you guys think she would have beat Brenda Fricker for the Oscar?

Picture it: in her first movie role, Miss Reba McEntire as Annelle.

Reba was too old to be Annelle. Annelle wasn’t the same age as the other women. She was much younger, closer to Shelby’s age.

Soon you all are gonna say Jessica Tandy should have been Annelle.

Talk about dumbasses.

Julia Roberts wins Golden Globe for Steel Magnolias

Jessica Tandy as Shelby.....oh that's a good one

I laughed so loudly,thank you

"That line is iconic."

So what? It's still incredibly stupid. Yeah, she gets her "three minutes of wonderful" alright, by getting knocked up and having her whelp. She also ends up dead, leaving her beloved Jack Junior without a mother. Didn't she ever think of that before getting pregnant? Didn't she ever think of the BABY and not herself? I guess not. This reminds me; in the movie Jack Junior is a robust, chunky baby. In the play he's three months premature, weighing only a pound and a half at birth. Ouiser says "God. He is a tiny thing" when seeing a picture of him, but Shelby optimistically says "But he's catch up. Give him time." I guess dopey Shelby thought everything would work out just fine. But it didn't.

R319 I remember Martin Grove on CNNsaying Julia Roberts would have won if Pretty Woman opened during the balloting as she became a global superstar.

Shelby’s iq was probably very low. She literally was too stupid to live!

Did Tommy and Jonathan jack each other off at night?

R325 that's wishful thinking. Nobody was going to take it from Kathy Bates that year.

Julia looks very pretty in this movie. You guys are assholes.

It was between Kathy and Angelica Huston. A lot of people thought AH would win.

R328 you sound unhinged. The poster is clearly talking about the Steel Mangolias nomination which Roberts was very close to winning. Nobody thinks she had at a shot at her Pretty Woman nomination unless the Academy was wanting to reward someone who became a cultural phenomenon

Richard Gere was hot but I can't believe shed throw away prime McDermott cock got a Plus 30 guy.

R332 a lot of people like older. Not everyone goes for their age group.

Our Julia was and has always been a big slut. She deserves to be a DL Icon.

Every straight guy I know wanted to fuck Julia Roberts in the 90s. It was more than just that she was pretty. They thought she was cool in a hot way. I always thought she was very pretty but the straight guys around me always thought she was a goddess.

No, R331, you're the one who sounds unhinged if you think anything in R331 sounds unhinged.

Straight guys are very dumb. They liked Julia Roberts because she was famous and very good looking. Not because she was hot. Julia has always been better looking than hot. Her face is really really pretty and elegant. But she doesn't have a hot body like JLaw that the dudebros fall over themselves for. Jennifer is hot.

She was very close to winning it... she must have been one dick short of a sucking.

R337 barely. JLaw is not even that hot. And her face isn’t that pretty. It’s all hype.

Someone that’s hot? Megan Fox.

Dammit, now I’m watching it. Dolly is really lovable in this.

R340 i watched it earlier today cause of this thread

The river had the best scenes.

Has Julia ever gotten along with any of her female co-stars that are her same age?

I always found it disingenuous that she claims she has no idea why Spielberg hates her.

Dylan McDermott is so dreamy in this. Such a perfect, little bubble butt.

Everybody Hates Julia, the new sitcom starring Patty Heaton.

McDermott has a beautiful butt.

Julia is very good friends with DL fave Gwenyth Palttrow. I'm looking for a pic to trigger the DL. But I've seen them giggling and holding hands like gal pals at a party.

[quote]Julia is very good friends with DL fave Gwenyth Palttrow.

That's odd considering Paltrow's Godfather is Spielberg!

Paltrow is a grown woman. She’s not gonna alienate Roberts cause her uncle dislikes Roberts for no reason.

[quote]Roberts cause her uncle dislikes Roberts for no reason.

For "no" reason.

The link isn't working. But I'm trying to link their picture on Paltrow's Twitter abou the Podcast interview with "my great friend" as she says.

Oh God.

Paltrow and Roberts together in a pic? Some heads will burst in flames on here.

My sides. I can picture a friendship like that from a country away. Two uber bitches talking shit about every one they know.

R345 I prefer the title Julia, her pussy stinks.

Too bad this movie didn't do more for Tom Hodges

It's on Platrow's Instagram and Twitter. I'm trying to post to blast DL. I'm not sure our queens could take it.

THEN POST IT. ITS NOT THAT HARD.

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

Gwenyth's comments are nauseating too. "My great friend" and. "I'm such a fan girl"

Julia's teeth in R358. Yikes.

Holy shit you couldn't find two bigger bitches to put into a room. I have no doubt these two two be "great friends".

I could TOTALLY see how these two are friends.

Well [lets her freshly applied nail polish finish drying] alright R302, let's have it then! [adjusts wig] I'll knock you all into next week! [makes pathetic fists and puts up her weak little dukes].

Mama? R302 knows I have bad veins, right? Okay. Mama says you are not to hit me too hard.

Well? We gonna just stand here lookin' at each other or are we gonna the party started? [tries to look badass]

Good god you couldn't dream up two snottier bitches if you tried. I didn't know but it does not surprise me one bit these two would be "friends".

Oh my God. They both have obnoxious faces. Think about being stuck on an elevator with those two. Gross.

R302??? We gonna do this? I have to pick out which of Mama's kidneys I want and then I have to go to dialysis and Truvy wants to fix my hair after our fight so ….let's go!

"She’s not gonna alienate Roberts cause her uncle dislikes Roberts for no reason."

Spielberg dislikes Roberts because she was a bitch to work with. I think that's a pretty good reason to dislike her.

It's super corny but a total slumber party tear jerking movie. It doesn't pretend to be some great art piece.

R368 I always cry so hard at the funeral where M'Lynn breaks down over Shelby. Always. I thought it was a good movie too. And I agree, it just came and went, it is not shoved down people's throats like other movies.

Gwen has clearly stated her boundaries. She considers Julia a friend. And I can tell you I've been in a room where they were giggly and holding hands like gal pals together. . Paltrow does like Roberts. They sit and and laugh and gossip together. Spielberg is not in play with their relationship.

Great. A couple of grossly overpaid and grossly overrated mean girls are besties. Heart warming.

Those two look gossipy too. I bet they spill tea everywhere.

I just finished watching it again. I liked it a lot more than I remembered. I do think Julia was the weak link. She was too tall, and that wig in the second act was horrible. She made the character unlikable-or maybe it’s written that way. So selfish. Winona Ryder was originally offered the part. Wonder what that would have been like.

Daryl Hannah wasn’t bad at all... not like I had remembered. That character is just weird. Daryl did fine with it. She also fucked JFK jr., so there’s that.

I'm another sucker that likes this movie on a slumber party lets cry level. I hate Julia Roberts but she is very sweet and likaeable in this movie. I wanted to hug her.

I can testify as A Fox employee. I've seen Julia and Gwen holding hands and giggling together at a GG party. They are legit friends.

Well Julia must not be as nasty to Gwen as she is to others.

R370 Gwen's personal assistant who is just in on all the gossip and who has had a conversation with Gwen where Gwen tells R370 about her boundary-setting-with-Julia policies.

Sally Field was incredible 🙌👑

In bed, Dave Annabel @ R378?

But Jackson was one hanging man.

I bet those two have awesome gossip conversations. Two of the nastiest bitches ever. I bet they give great gossip.

R358 you got me. I'm totally triggered. I fucking hate bot of those bitches. It doesn't surprise me one bit they are friends. They're the same type.

R382 They are probably only friends because no one else wants to be friends with either them. (Can't blame them.)

And, yes, the two are enough to trigger anyone.

Your dumb 383. Everyone loves Julia Roberts. I tried asking all the fraus at my work. They lover her for whatever reason.

I doubt either bitch is hurting for friends. They will be just fine

Why didn't Truvy rip that cheap wig off of Shelby, and beat her to death with it.

How come nobody ever answered MY question about Annelle?? Why'd you pick HER?

Truvy probably sold Shelby the wig....

Anyway Dolly's wig needs an update

Dolly makes her own wigs.

Julia should have just used the Shelby wig instead of chopping it off to play Tinkerhell. Looked exactly the same.

Julia looked very pretty in this movie. You guys are assholes. Her big hair aside. Her face was really pretty.

But her acting and accent sucked.

R392 Her face was really pretty...long.

Steel Magnolias will always make money because it's the big weepie toy tie to Terms of Endearment. But modern girls watch Steel Mgnolias as their de facto weepie.

R392 = Julia Roberts

I think the awful accent lets Julia down. I think she could have been wonderful if that awful accent hadn't be foisted upon her (and many of the other actors in the film). For some reason, the director got it in his head that everyone should talk like fucking Gone With the Wind. He'd clearly never been anywhere near where the story apparently took place, because people don't talk like that. They talk much more like Dolly.

Yes, some people do talk like that, but we usually make fun of them for putting on airs.

Julia’s line to Olympia Dukakis - “But Miss Clairee...there are still good times to be had!” - in that awful Southern accent especially made me cringe.

r397 wasn’t it set in louisiana? everyone i know from there talks like foghorn leghorn.

R399, I agree I have a friend from Baton Rouge and he sounds just like Foghorn Leghorn.

Yes they did get the accent down, except for Dolly. Dolly was Dolly and Shirley. Shirly was some sort of weird southern manic scream. I think Olympia did it best. Every word out of her mouth sounded like it was dripping with Honey. "Janice VanMeder is the current mayor's wife, we hate her...."

I've lived in that area. The Foghorn Leghorn thing is true as it is in Alabama, Mississippi, etc. Most people do talk like that. They don't sound like they're from Gone With the Wind or like they do in this movie. Dolly was the only one who sounded completely natural if you ask me. Julia was probably the worst with the accent. It's like she knew this accent was all wrong for the character, but knew Ross would scream at her if she didn't perform it the way he thought it should be performed.

It's quite amazing that the film turned out as well as it did. I felt like everyone was ideally cast (with maybe Hannah being the main exception, but she does ok), but Ross didn't seem to understand the south at all. I saw a Kathleen Turner directed production of Crimes of the Heart that had a similar issue.

[quote] Sally Field just gets cringe worthy when she does the no no and starts the Sybil voice

This is also her downfall in "Lincoln." She's excellent in the whole film, but ruins her performance when she has her big breakdown over losing Tad and does the weird Sybil Dorset voice all over again. I don't know why her directors tell her she can never, ever do that voice again.

I don't think Sally (or the directors) have much choice in the matter, when she gets over-emotional, that's how she sounds.