Steel Magnolias
- Sally Field: M'Lynn Eatenton
- Dolly Parton: Truvy Jones
- Shirley MacLaine: Ouiser Boudreaux
- Olympia Dukakis: Clairee Belcher
- Julia Roberts: Shelby Eatenton Latcherie
- Tom Skerritt: Drum Eatenton
- Dylan McDermott: Jackson Latcherie
- Daryl Hannah: Annelle Dupuy Desoto
Steel Magnolias - The strength of the women ( the original Title: Steel Magnolias ). 's An American movie from 1989 Director Herbert Ross filmed a script that Robert Harling wrote on the basis of his own tragicomic theater piece.
The main roles were played by Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Julia Roberts, Olympia Dukakis and Daryl Hannah.
The film was shown out of competition at the Berlinale 1990.
Action
The film begins with the preparations for the wedding of diabetic Shelby and their fiance Jackson. In the morning, Shelby decides to go with her mother M'Lynn in the beauty salon of her friend Truvy to let get ready for the subsequent celebration. There, she suffers a seizure, her mother pushes on the wedding stress and the fact that Shelby's doctor has her advised not to have children. After Shelby has drunk a glass of juice, but for now she is well again. She invites even the new employees of the beauty salons Annelle one to her wedding.
Meanwhile, Shelby's father has quarrel with his neurotic neighbor Ouiser who gets excited about the volume of constant gunfire, the releases Shelby's father to get rid of the bird plague during the wedding. Shortly before the marriage turns out that he himself has suffered hearing damage by the volume.
Shelby marries Jackson at Easter. While M'Lynn dances with her newly minted son, she asks him insistently to forego their own children because she knows the heady views of her daughter and tells him to bring Shelby to reason.
Despite all the warnings Shelby opens her at the following Christmas that she is expecting a baby. Both the pregnancy and the birth of the baby go smoothly until, finally, a failed one year later of Shelby's kidneys. On the question of her girlfriends out how to proceed now, Shelby tells them that M'Lynn will donate one of her kidneys to her. The operation goes well and both M'Lynn and Shelby can be discharged from the hospital. A few months later, however, Jackson finds his wife unconscious on the terrace - her body has rejected the kidney. Shelby falls into a coma. A few days later Shelby's doctor opens her family that she will probably never wake up again. Then decide M'Lynn and Jackson to let off the life-support machines. On Shelby's funeral M'Lynn suffers a fit of hysterics, which, however, thanks to the support of her friends ends with a laugh.
After the funeral, told Annelle M'Lynn that she is planning her baby, no matter whether it is a boy or a girl to call Shelby. M'Lynn agrees. During an Easter egg hunt gets Annelle labor and taken to hospital.
Template for action is the fate of the sister of screenwriter Robert Harling. She died in 1985 from diabetes.
Awards
Julia Roberts won the Golden Globe for her role, and was nominated for an Oscar. Sally Field was nominated for a Golden Globe, Shirley MacLaine was nominated for the British Academy Film Award.
The film was also the opening film at the Berlinale in 1990, but did not participate in competition for the Golden Bear in part.
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The role of Shelby was originally intended for Meg Ryan, but this took the role of Sally in the movie When Harry Met Sally in front of him through whom they finally reached their breakthrough. Julia Roberts helped the Oscar nomination, which she received through her portrayal of Shelby to the cast for their later hit movie Pretty Woman, which made them overnight into one of the most sought after actresses in Hollywood.
Criticism
- Encyclopedia of the International Films: The calculated quite aligned and brought to predictable effects on the female stars out film offers a plethora of events, which are discussed at the level of trivial fate novels. The only bright spot is the outstanding dramatic performance by Shirley MacLaine.
- Epd Film 4/1990: A story hour from Hollywood: bright, garish and bittersweet, colorful, loud and boozy [ ... ]. Everything seems stiff, static and artificially exaggerated, the film lives solely on the presence of its actors and the brilliant (but mostly interminable ) dialogue. The images are overflowing with lush floral arrangements, kitschy decor and loud colors. They are infatuated with effort and mass - as so could the visual weaknesses of narrative can be compensated. Herbert Ross covers it all with a colorful and sticky icing. His film is too sweet to be still edible.