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. Time passes, and the women and their friends encounter tragedy and good fortune, growing stronger and closer in the process.
16 September 1970, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
25 August 1933, Detroit, Michigan, USA
24 April 1934, Richmond, Virginia, USA
3 December 1960, Chicago, Illinois, USA
6 December 1962, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
1 July 1965, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1930, Natchitoches, Louisiana, USA
4 February 1971, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
11 June 1941, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
6 November 1946, Pasadena, California, USA
1951
7 December 1948
1 February 1942, Vienna, Austria
20 June 1931, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
22 February 1964, New York City, New York, USA
April 26, 2016
A good film for the soft-hearted more than the paean to womanly strength that was its motive.
May 20, 2003
''Steel Magnolias'' is pop entertainment of an especially condescending, superficial sort.
January 01, 2000
Watching Herbert Ross's "Steel Magnolias," you feel as if you have been airlifted onto some horrible planet of female impersonators.
March 26, 2009
Field does some spectacular underplaying through the bulk of the action, revealing layer after layer of the feelings of this kindly tempered, deeply worried mother.
January 01, 2000
"Steel Magnolias" is essentially a series of comic one-liners leading up to a teary tragedy, but let it be said that the one-liners are mostly funny and the tragedy deserves most, but not all, of the tears.
October 25, 2012
chooses to leave the rearing of her moppet to Dylan McDermott...or Dermot Mulroney. Doesn't matter.
January 01, 2011
Three-hanky special, but with lots of laughs, too.
December 04, 2013
Steel Magnolias is so immersed by the conviction of its story that in a way it becomes an extension of our own human experience.
April 26, 2016
This is a little too dependent on sassy one-liners and is awash with sentiment by the end, but is still wonderful entertainment.
November 02, 2004
For all its violations of good taste and critical criteria, I laugh and cry every time, and I'll never let it go. So sue me.
June 24, 2006
It makes a shameless bid for your heart, aiming to have you smiling one moment, sniffling the next.
April 26, 2016
Ross gets generally strong performances from his ensemble, and an especially good one from Field in a role that really doesn't suit her.
