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The title refers to those seemingly frail Southern belles who survive any and all deprivations through whims of iron. Robert Harling's original stage play was set exclusively in a Louisiana beauty parlor where an all-female cast of characters laughed, cried and compared menfolk. The film expands the playing field by including scenes at picnics, hospitals and the like, and by visually depicting the males who never appeared in the stage version. Dolly Parton plays the goodnatured beauty-shop
Jan 1, 1989 Wide
Jul 25, 2000
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
All Critics (26) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (6) | DVD (7)
Three-hanky special, but with lots of laughs, too.
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.
Good character study ruined by cliche-driven plot
Each of the women talk like they're reading a bumper sticker.
"Oh, I wish I was in Dixie!" for the middle class suburban wife set. Obvious to a fault, its implied "girls are in this all together" message subverted by the constant backbiting gossip sessions in the beauty parlor where they make themselves "pretty", a girl power flag raiser pretender.
August 8, 2007Super Reviewer
Heartwarming! A must see!
June 23, 2011Super Reviewer
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