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Time passes and tension mounts in a Florida police station as an estranged interracial couple awaits news of their missing teenage son.


In an updated contemporary version of the beloved stage play and 1989 film, "Steel Magnolias" chronicles the lives and friendship of six women in Louisiana. Supporting each other through their triumphs and tragedies, they congregate at Truvy’s beauty shop to ponder the mysteries of life and death, husbands and children - and hair and nails - all the important topics that truly unite and celebrate women.

Queen Latifah
M'Lynn

Alfre Woodard
Ouiser

Phylicia Rashād
Clairee

Jill Scott
Truvy

Adepero Oduye
Annelle

Dola Rashad
Shelby

Tory Kittles
Jackson

Afemo Omilami
Drum

Lance Gross
Sammy

Anna Colwell
Nurse Pam
Steel Magnolias is a romance, drama, tv movie film released in 2012. Directed by Kenny Leon, it stars Queen Latifah, Alfre Woodard, Phylicia Rashād. In an updated contemporary version of the beloved stage play and 1989 film, "Steel Magnolias" chronicles the lives and friendship of six women in Louisiana. Supporting each other through their triumphs and tragedies, they congregate at Truvy’s beauty shop to ponder the mysteries of life and death, husbands and children - and hair and nails - all the important topics that truly unite and celebrate women.
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