Essay On Steel Magnolias

My Favorite film or movie is Steel Magnolias. This movie is about the bond between a group of different women from different backgrounds with very different family structure and dynamics. It revolves around the death of one of the women’s children and how they come together to support each other and deal with this tragedy. The movie opens at Truvy’s Beauty shop, where Annelle, a kooky beauty school graduate is hired to work in the shop. Across town, at M’lynn’s home, they are preparing for her daughter Shelby’s wedding. M’lynne, Shelby, Ms. Clairee and all go to Truvy’s shop to get their hair done for the ceremony. While at the shop, Shelby has a Hypoglycemic episode due to her Diabetes. Her Mother, M’Lynne helps her through this episode by giving her some …show more content…
This really concerns her mother M’lynne. She is worried about her daughter’s health and they have an argument. The other ladies gather around to support M’lynne and Shelby through her pregnancy. After the birth of Shelby’s son, she begins to experience kidney failure. Her mother ends up giving her a kidney. Later on Shelby is found unconscious at her home. She ends up in a coma on life support. The family decides to take her off life support and during the funeral toward the end of the service M’lynne has a breakdown in front of the other women which in my opinion was the “Oscar worthy performance of the year”. The ladies comfort her and Annelle informs M’lynne that she will name her baby with Sammy: Shelby. The movie ends on the following Easter where at the picnic and Easter egg hunt Annelle goes into Labor and is being rushed to the hospital. This is my favorite movie of all time, the relationships between these women and their family’s reminded me of my own family. It was a true depiction of life, love, loss and friendship. I GAVE IT 5