Steel Magnolias- The Lifetime Movie

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by 33girl

I couldn't tell from the previews, but it seemed like...is Queen Latifah playing Shelby???? She's a little long in the tooth for that particular part.

No, she's playing M'Lynn, Shelby's mother.

Originally Posted by PM_Mama00

Because it's based on a sorority sister's life. I don't understand how you change a true story.

I don't think it's really accurate to call it a "true story." It is a fictionalized story based -- sometimes more loosely, sometimes less so -- on the death and humor-filled approach to life of the playwright's sister and on the women who surrounded her. Harling didn't write the play as a reenactment of his sister's life and death. Like any good play, it's bigger than that.

And fwiw, according to the New York Times, the all-black cast was Harling's idea.

[amIblue?]

Originally Posted by PM_Mama00

Because it's based on a sorority sister's life. I don't understand how you change a true story.

Based on =\= factual account.

Originally Posted by MysticCat

No, she's playing M'Lynn, Shelby's mother.

I don't think it's really accurate to call it a "true story." It is a fictionalized story based -- sometimes more loosely, sometimes less so -- on the death and humor-filled approach to life of the playwright's sister and on the women who surrounded her. Harling didn't write the play as a reenactment of his sister's life and death. Like any good play, it's bigger than that.

And fwiw, according to the New York Times, the all-black cast was Harling's idea.

You always say things so well, MC.