Atom User Reviews for Steel Magnolias 30th Anniversary (1989) presented by TCM
One of my absolute favorite movies. Absolutely ecstatic that I was able to see it in theaters!
Such a great movie. Wish the lady next to me would have not spoken the most epic lines out loud! 🤷🏼♀️
30 years later and I still love this movie better than I love my luggage
This is one of the best movies that shows the strength of both the loving relationship between family and friends. The female bond is extremely valuable and supportive in all periods of a female life and it is the lifeline that connects women to one another. Steel Magnolias truly captures friendship and a mother's love for her daughter.
Love loved it!!
An awesome story about friends, family, life and loss
What fun to watch this on the BIG screen! Great movie! Like seeing old friends...
How many movies can take you from years to laughter in 30 seconds??! This is a great movie. Amazing cast. Great quotable lines.
of course this movie is amazing, unfortunately the theater that we were supposed to see it,was unable to show us the movie, and sent everyone in the theater home...this would be the AMC in Paramus NJ, the one in garden state plaza mall. I had purchased these tickets MONTHS in advance...and it was really really crappy...
They showed a "TV" version. As a huge fan of the movie there were some small parts missing as if it was for TV length. Also our theater messed up and started it 15-20 mins in & literally had to rewind it for all of us. 😕
Just never get enough of these actors.
Best ever! Have loved it since it first came out!
One of my all-time favorite movies! I got to see it with a group of my girlfriends to celebrate my birthday!
If you haven’t seen this movie you haven’t lived! Great cast!
One of my favorites! So glad I got to see it on the big screen with my daughter, whose name is Shelby.
Loved this 30-year-old movie! Fantastic girls' night out.
This has been my absolute favorite movie for 30 years! I am a mess every time I see it - so heart wrenching! They do not make movies like this anymore!
Took my wife because it is one of her favorite movies. Great cast. Great time.
Loved
I forgot about the emotional rollarcoaster ride the movie provides. Definitely enjoy the theater atmosphere.
Twelve of us gathered for the screening. We laughed, we cried and we celebrated our sisterhood! Love everything that is Steel Magnolias!
So excited to see this on the big screen!
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Laughed, cried, one of my all time favorites
Awesome on the big screen
Wonderful movi
My favorite movie of all times. To get to experience it on the big screen with my 27 and 21 yr old daughters ( who also Love the movie as much as I do) was priceless!
I absolutely love this movie...can recite it word for word! So happy I got to see it in the Theater again!
Favorite movie for 30 years, even better on the big screen...love it!
Such a great movie to enjoy with my adult daughters. I love that it came back to the theatre for the 30th anniversary!
Lovely fun sweet chick flick
Love love love this movie. It was great seeing it on the big screen. Thank you TCM
Happy to share this big screen experience with my hubby!
Metacritic
The densely populated movie, pumped up with unnecessary crowd scenes and a handful of utterly extraneous male characters, is as garish and busy as a TV game show. As directed by Herbert Ross, it is so intent on persuading the audience that it is having a heartwarming emotional experience you almost expect TelePrompTers to flash in the theater, instructing you to laugh and cry. [27 Nov 1989, p.92]
Everything Terms of Endearment's detractors accused Terms of being: a synthetic, manipulative tragi-comedy with performances more appropriate to a proscenium arch - or to a drag show - than to the wide screen. And yet, there are moments in the movie of high comedy and sequences of searing truth. At its worst, Steel Magnolias is vastly inferior to Designing Women; at its best, it brings to mind (but never equals) Tennessee Williams. [20 Nov 1989]
The principal pleasure of the movie is in the ensemble work of the actresses, as they trade one-liners and zingers and stick together and dish the dirt. Steel Magnolias is willing to sacrifice its over-all impact for individual moments of humor, and while that leaves us without much to take home, you've got to hand it to them: The moments work.