STEEL MAGNOLIAS (1989) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION

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  @jkhoover · 2 years ago

  &quot;I can&apos;t tell what this movie is about yet.&quot;<br>It&apos;s about to make you cry like a baby is what it&apos;s about.

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  @josephscally6270 · 2 years ago

  Although Sally Fields has two Oscars one for &quot;Norma Ray&quot; and one for &quot;Places In The Heart&quot;, many people think she should have gotten an Academy Award for her performance in this film. I would have to agree.

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• KE

  @kendric2000-q3d · 2 years ago

  My daughter has Type 1 diabetes and having a baby almost killed her. She was in the hospital for weeks at the end and had to deliver 9 weeks early. But...that little girl is happy, healthy and 4 years old now. :)

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  @leannmiller7153 · 2 years ago

  This is the true story of Susan Harling Robinson. When Susan’s husband remarried only five months after her death, and her brother Robert heard her son calling the new wife mommy, he was concerned he would never know what his mother did to give him life. He wrote the Broadway play, then the movie script. Robert played the minister at the wedding and graveside. The film used Susan’s actual nurses. Susan’s mother was on set for the scene when they turned off the machine. She needed to see Julia get up💔

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  @esclad · 2 years ago

  Sally Field screaming &apos;why?!!&apos; at Shelby&apos;s funeral goes right through my soul. I absolutely adore this movie, ALL the cast did a stellar job.

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• SH

  @sherrysink3177 · 2 years ago

  I cannot make it through that funeral speech by Sally Field without bawling like a baby. Ugly crying. It&apos;s impossible. The minute she says her hair looks like a brown football helmet and they ask her if she&apos;s okay and she says (again) that &quot;I&apos;M FINE!!!!&quot; ... I&apos;m done for. That&apos;s one of the most amazing displays of the range of emotions one goes through after loss -- sorrow, nostalgia, contemplation, defensiveness, anger, anguish. It&apos;s all right there in one speech and Sally Field acts the hell of it. She&apos;s amazing.

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• KE

  @keithmusselman6003 · 2 years ago

  Her yelling “I’m fine!” hits hard once you lose family and friends.

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  @44excalibur · 2 years ago

  Tom Skerritt wasn&apos;t just in Contact, he was also in Alien and Top Gun.

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  @nonMuggle · 2 years ago

  &quot;What was the story?&quot; ** Remember when M&apos;lynn was talking about how Shelby died? &quot;I was afraid that I wouldn’t survive the next few minutes while they turned off the machines. Drum couldn&apos;t take it. He left. Jackson couldn’t take it. He left. It struck me as amusing. Men are supposed to be made of steel or something.&quot;<br><br>Steel. And the women are from the south; Magnolias. That&apos;s the title. Steel Magnolia is a colloquial term: &quot;A woman who at once exhibits traditionally feminine qualities as well as indefatigable strength, determination, and resolve.&quot;<br><br>The only movie that makes me ugly cry every single time I watch it.

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• PL

  @pl1763 · 2 years ago

  I’ve seen this movie 5-6x and Sally Fields at the funeral with that “whyyy?” gets me every single time

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• LE

  @lexwells4763 · 2 years ago

  My mother loves Dolly Parton. When she learned Dolly was unable to have children she was sad. She said it was a shame such a wonderful woman couldn&apos;t have children of her own. Someone from Nashville said Dolly Parton personally funds books for every child born in the State. She is a woman with a huge heart. This movie shows just how wonderful she really is.

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  @BelleDede01 · 2 years ago

  Tidbit of info. &nbsp;The priest that married Shelby is the author AND Shelby was his sister. &nbsp;He wrote the book so that Shelby&apos;s son would know what his mother went through to have him. &nbsp;Also, her husband Jackson, got married soon after Shelby passed away, which angered her brother, enough to write the story too. &nbsp;The Doctor and nurses were the real nurses and Doc that took care of Shelby in the hospital. &nbsp;Shelby&apos;s mother stayed on the film set during the whole time that Shelby was in the hospital bed, waiting for Julia to get up from it, as her daughter never did.

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