Searching for work and a comfortable life, a young talented woman, has moved into Louisiana, where she finds work as a beautician in the most popular beauty center Truvy Jones, where a group of women befriend each other and share their daily life situations, their happiness, problems, and everything in a great fun.
"Steel Magnolias" is essentially a series of comic one-liners leading up to a teary tragedy, but let it be said that the one-liners are mostly funny and the tragedy deserves most, but not all, of the tears.
Field does some spectacular underplaying through the bulk of the action, revealing layer after layer of the feelings of this kindly tempered, deeply worried mother.
