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It is a contemporary retelling of the play Steel Magnolias and its 1989 film adaptation. [2] The new film stars an all-black American cast, including Queen Latifah as M'Lynn, Jill Scott as Truvy, Condola Rashād as Shelby, Adepero Oduye as Annelle, with Phylicia Rashād as Clairee and Alfre Woodard as Ouiser. [3] [4]
Steel Magnolias is a stage play by American writer Robert Harling, based on his experience with his sister's death. The play is a comedy-drama about the bond among a group of Southern women in northwest Louisiana. The title suggests the "female characters are as delicate as magnolias but as tough as steel".
Steel Magnolias is a 1989 American comedy drama film directed by Herbert Ross and starring Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, and Julia Roberts. The screenplay by Robert Harling is based on his 1987 play of the same name about the bond a group of women share in a small-town Southern community, and how ...
Steel Magnolias had its premiere on Nov. 5, 1989, opening in theaters later that month. Among the accolades it earned was a BAFTA nomination for MacLaine, 90, and an Oscar nomination for Roberts.
Now celebrating its 35th anniversary, “Steel Magnolias” has left a loving legacy in Natchitoches where visitors come to see the beautiful homes, dine in the restaurants, shop for movie ...
Julia Roberts is now an on-screen legend, playing some of the most memorable leading ladies in recent film history. But the 56-year-old Oscar winner wasn't always the first pick for some of her ...
He portrayed a young Ernest Hemingway in the 1988 film The Moderns, had a small role in 1989's Steel Magnolias, and a featured role in 1994's erotic thriller Color of Night, which starred Bruce Willis and Jane March. O'Connor worked with writer/director Stephen Sommers on the 1998 science-fiction adventure Deep Rising.
Hannah was the executive producer of Greedy Lying Bastards, a 2012 documentary against climate change denial. [ 45 ] In September 2012, Hannah signed environmental activist Tom Weis' open letter calling on President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney to withdraw their support for the construction of the southern leg of the Keystone XL ...