“I’m not mean, I’ve just been in a bad mood for 40 years!” This movie is CONSTANTLY quoted by me and friends. In the end it’s also beautifully tragic. Sally Field should have won the Oscar, and I’ll never forgive the Academy for not giving it to her.
This is a true story written by the brother who's sister dies from complications of Type 1 Diabetes. Susan Harling Robertson is the real name of the woman.. RIP Susan, this movie means so much to so many.
The real husband married only 5 or 6 months after his wife died. The little boy called his step mother...Mama. That is why Shelbys real life brother wrote the play so his nephew would know about his mother.
When she screams “WHY?!” I always lose it. I always did, but after my husband died I realised just how exact that emotion was. Sally Field is an amazing actress.
I cry every time at the cemetery scene. My oldest daughter was born in 1989 the year this movie came out and I went to the theater to see it. Little did I know that the movie would take on even more significance when my oldest was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes herself at 10 1/2 years old. Couldn't watch the movie for a long time after she was diagnosed, but eventually was able to. Still is one of my all time favorite movies. My daughter is almost 35, married with 2 children, and is doing fine now.
The longest 6 hours of my life were in the hospital waiting room while my youngest son was getting his new kidney. 3 years on dialysis. A lovely young woman, a total stranger, came 500 miles to donate. She is an angel here on earth.
It’s common for people whose blood sugar gets too low to lose control of themselves and not know who they are or who anyone else is. Happened to my dad once and it had him speaking with a British accent and he didn’t know who I was until I got his blood sugar back up and he gained consciousness. It’s very scary. because of course if you get too low it’s fatal.
LOL I had a low so bad once...once I came around, there was an empty cereal bowl and a jar of nutella and a jar of peanut butter in front of me. Not sure how long I had been there. Lows are the WORST. Fortunately I don't have ones that bad that often.
Julia did a great acting job it was so realistic My little sister had type 1 childhood diabetes and I had witnessed her low blood sugar dropping like that. The sweating, irritability and confusion. Even the way we had to make her drink juice and she would fight it. We lost her at almost 14 years old when I had just turned 19.
I had a coworker who is a diabetic and me and her were always working so I could recognize when she needed to take a break and eat a snack and drink some juice.
@@lisann229I’m so sorry for your loss. I’ve been very fortunate to have woken from lows I shouldn’t have. I pray God brings you merciful healing and grace.
I lost my oldest son to a car wreck in 2018. The scene in the cemetery is so accurate, I still have trouble even watching that scene. I feel that pain.
Absolute favorite movie! Went with the whole family to see this. The entire theatre was in tears and laughing at the same time. The cemetery scene wrecks me every time
I cry everytime too! Went to the theater to see it and the same thing, the whole theater was sobbing and laughing at the same time. My daughter was born that year as well. This movie took on a different meaning for me in 2000 though when the same daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at 10 1/2 years old. She is almost 35 now and married with two children. She is doing fine, but I could not watch this movie for a long time right after she was diagnosed.
Based on a true story,Robert Harling who plays the minister,actually wrote a play about his sister Susan Harling Robinson,who died of type 1 diabetes complications.Shelby played by Julia Roberts is based on her.
This was really good. They tried to do a remake of it with Queen Latifah a few years ago and it just didn’t work. I think it’s because you know this is a true story. Sometimes you just cannot do better than the original and you need to not even try.
The remake was just as good. The cast was just as talented. The problem was that it was a television film instead of a theatrical or streaming release.
Low blood sugar can do that. You get sweaty, dizzy, shaky, confused, your heart pounds and your vision gets blurry. Diabetes is also hard on your kidneys; it's a leading cause of kidney failure.
A girl that I was friends with back in high school has a sister-in-law who is a type1 brittle diabetic. One time when she was having a low blood sugar episode, I saw her throw her 6'4' 260 lb husband halfway across the room and into a wall, because he was trying to get her to take a glucose tablet. So we all (my friend's brother and dad, plus us two 15 year old girls) had to hold her down to get some juice in her, because she was fighting so much and wouldn't take the tablet. Scary. Luckily she did much better with controlling her blood sugar after getting an insulin pump shortly after that incident.
Beautiful and heartwarming and tragic, I lost my brother 18 yrs ago to cancer he was just 29, the pain i felt cant top what my mother went through, Sally Fields performance pretty much sums it up how a parent would react to losing a child. It hurts for me so much but not like my parents. Grief is a weird thing, you never get over it you just live with it and sometimes smile and the good times and cry when you need to
Yeah, I can't quite get past it. It's a shame because I love the reaction otherwise. But listening to ghostly laughter during scenes where Julia Roberts' character is collapsed on the ground and the baby is screaming? Too much. Can't
Just FYI... Your reaction sounds are off. You have two sets of y'all talking at almost the same time. This Movie is one of my all time favorite movies! It has all of the emotions. Y'all should watch Syble. It was one of Sally Fields best movies in my opinion. The sceen at the cemetery is almost pulled directly from the movie Syble. In the movie she plays a woman with Multiple Personalities Disorder. It's a very good movie!
7:51 Dylan McDermott wasn't on "Suits" but he was a lead on a series called "The Practice" from 1997-2004. He was also in a few seasons of "American Horror Story", specifically "Murder House" (season 1), "Asylum" (season 2), and a few episodes during "Apocalypse" (season 8). He was also in a couple of episodes of "American Horror Stories", the anthology series Ryan Murphy made (3 seasons so far but Dylan was in 1 or 2 episodes of that).
That monologue by sally field is amazing. The way she's able to switch the emotions. Way back in the late 70s or early 80s.She did a tv movie called sybil. She played a girl that had like 31 personalities.
This is based on a True Story written by Susan’s ( real name ) Brother. Her brother actually played the preacher in the movie. Her husband remarried 6 months after she passed away. The line where it says having a baby will make things better always made me wonder what was really happening between the two.
When a diabetic has low blood sugar, their behavior can be very similar to a person who is intoxicated. This is because our brain needs sugar to function properly. The pancreas uses insulin to keep our blood sugar at the optimal level, and in diabetics the pancreas starts functioning erratically or not at all. End of lecture, lol. Really enjoyed sharing this great movie with you! 😊
It's not only set in Louisiana, but a lot of it was filmed there, in a town called Natchitoches. The Christmas Festival is based on a real one they have there during the holiday season :)
Annelle is California Mountain Snake or Elle Driver from Kill Bill. The assassin with the eye patch. And Morticia Addams in Addams Family Reunion. It was weird seeing her so young and dorky in this when I watched this movie for the first time this year. 😂
she was in the throes of a diabetic seizure. Seizures can take all kinds of forms but generally the worse are those where the person is aware of it and instinctively trying to fight against it. . . which can cause more damage than just letting go. As people tense up, lock up and dreadfully panicked about losing control... they do everything in their power to regain control and it can be quite painful. back in the day, there weren't a lot of options for diabetes control, the form of insulin being used was more expensive to manufacture and aggressive on the system. Sometimes, it could even lead to death because it was too effective. It was taken more during an episode than as a preventative as it is now. There were preventive medications back then but likewise, had serious complications... in addition to often having to take anti-seizure medications, which even to this day, have a long list of side effects that may be worse than having episodes. Also, again, quite damaging during the developmental phases of childhood to young adulthood.. hence, where cbd and cannabis oils have become popular as an alternative. Or for some, the discovery of just how much diet can impact it... albeit, a large part of it relies on special fats that can't be farm to table. ... and the prognosis for childhood diabetes was getting to adulthood but likely an early death all the same, often due to physical stress and complications, which is why they focus early on here with concerns should be a stay at home wife or the fears of having children, engaging in too much activity, and any kind of stress. her mother plays out the problem of many parents of children with health issues or disabilities.. it becomes an identity and there's a greater tendency to infantilize them even as they become adults. . . often due to having to fight for their children's health, and they have a harder time letting go of parental control, they risk becoming micromanagers of their children's lives.. Shelby desired independence, particularly from her mother, yet largely due to her disability, her only way to escape her mother was through marriage. In many ways, she would have had an easier time if she had come from a poorer and more broken family in those regards.. especially in the south (or the midwest, for that matter), where family (as an entire clan of multiple generations) demands often supersede immediate and personal interests... or simply put, suffocating. Even if they knew there were 3rd, 4th, 5th or more options available... it gained it's bucket of crabs reputation in that the majority would just go through the motions of expectations with few, if any major deviations. It was the kind of society where you could cure cancer but until you have children, you're probably sitting at the kiddie table until you mature enough to sit at the spinster, confirmed bachelor and other rejects table. . . with rumours you live in the family attic. (it was the attic in those days, different context than the basement dwellers of today but similar.) -- of course, if you have a tarnished legacy in those parts, then you're bloody free to do anything because there's no real escaping the public shame even if it's generations back... vs say the coasts (and the southwest), which are more nuclear family oriented with the majority separated from their kinfolk and everybody knowing their histories.
the father, Tom Skerritt was known for having bit roles in numerous major films but his most famous role was in a series called "Picket Fences" - albeit, it's largely forgotten now... save for being a breakout role for one of the "Charmed" sisters and another actress that would go on to marry (and divorce) Jim Carrey.
I'm a parent of a type 1 diabetic, (T1D) and have a love/hate relationship with this movie. I love the acting and humor and drama. I hate that it makes it seem "Shelby has T1D therefore cannot have children." She had Type 1 Diabetes and also had a kidney disorder, which may or may not have been caused by the diabetes. It is the kidney disorder that makes the pregnancy risky, not the type 1 diabetes.
So, my husband is type 1 diabetic, VERY different than type 2. I have watched my husband have quite a few episodes like Shelby had. It happens when you have an insulin reaction. It's absolutely terrifying to watch. Insulin pumps are over $10,000, and the good/stable insulin is about $1000 for a vial that lasts about 1 1/2 weeks. This movie is so hard for me to watch, but it's also amazing
The diabetics I know get mean when their blood sugar drops too low. A lot of times they will get angry at you for trying to get you help. The meanness is a que that the problem is serious.
The scene at the cemetery never fails to make me burst into tears. Not only from her amazing acting, but my mom looks almost just like her and has similar mannerisms, so it looks like how I imagine my mom would react to my death and of course I sob even more.
So glad I run across this - were headed back to Natchitoches Louisiana in a month or so going to see that house & filming areas. Its a really pretty little town.
So presumably this wedding was the day before Easter. That's a very churchy weekend for this town. Somebody was working late removing all the Saturday pinkosity in time for Sunday.
The first time I saw this my mom was in the hospital for complications of diabetes 😬 we watched it on VCR at a friends home trying to do “normal things” to get my mind off of it.
I like y’all’s couple reaction. I have seen this before, but I never consider this movie when thinking about what to watch when I have some free time. But watching this reaction makes me remember just how good it is.
"A boy named Shelby". Fun fact...Shelby was originally a masculine name in the early 1800s all the way up to 1935 when a movie called The Woman in Red featured a woman character named Shelby, after which it started to be more heavily used as a girl's name. Needless to say this movie also added to the popularity of the name. My own oldest niece was named Shelby because my sister loved this movie so much.
I had a neighbor when I was a kid in the 1960s, a boy, named Shelby. That was the only Shelby i had ever known and as far as I knew, it was a boy's name.
I grew up in the South. 1. Easter sometimes comes in March and the weather can be very tricky. 2. If a Southern woman has a fur coat, she is for darn sure gonna wear it to church.
The audio on this went very strange about 40 minutes or so in. like spliced images of you two from different sections. spliced audio, often repeated from stuff you said earlier. what on earth happened, i wonder. It's like someone took all the audio and video and put it in a blender then spit it back out on the second half 🧐 why on earth cut in you laughing when he comes home to find Shelby unconscious....
I once had a friend /coworker who had what is sometimes referred to as a “Brittle diabetic” ( not an actual medical diagnosis) which is basically a form of diabetes that can be really difficult to treat and can be difficult to keep your blood sugar levels, under control. Anyway,if you were close enough and if you knew what to look for it would become obvious really quickly that her blood sugar levels were rapidly starting to get out of control. And the first person to notice that she was having what was commonly referred to as a “sugar attack “ and then somebody would gently guide her to the first aid room and they would her check her blood sugar levels and give her a snack and they would sit there with her until she was okay again.
Fried Green Tomatoes is another great movie. Kathy Bates is hilarious in it. Love this movie so so much, thank you for reacting to steel magnolias. You made this East Tennessee girl happy
I can vouch for the diabetic episode. My grandmother got downright mean when her sugar would get low. Something I saw on the making of this movie was the real Shelby's mom was watching the scene when she died. The writer asked his mom not to stay for the scene, but she insisted because after the director called cut, she wanted to she Julia get up out of the bed. That was something that her daughter never got to do.
Steel Magnolias portrays a time when diabetes management was much different than today - a time before continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) and insulin pumps were mainstream, before the A1C test was established as a “gold standard” for management, and prior to faster-acting insulins and analogues being introduced. Today’s reality is thankfully different, even though economic and cultural gaps certainly exist that keep some people with diabetes from getting ideal treatment. But on top of that, Shelby has a specific kind of diabetes known as Brittle Diabetes, a term to describe individuals with large, unexplained changes in blood glucose concentrations. That means her illness _can’t_ be completely regulated by insulin no matter how careful she is. People with this type of diabetes can have frequent hospitalizations for diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) or hypoglycemia, and often poor patient outcomes (which is why Shelby says no judge would give a baby to someone with her medical record). Sudden drops in sugar level can lead to confusion and irrational behavior. It can ultimately lead to seizures, coma and death if a patient’s sugar level isn’t brought up. (The movie portrays this irrational behavior during a seizure with Shelby fighting back against her mother and demanding to be independent while she is undergoing a seizure.) These days, this movie gets some pushback for "demonizing" diabetes and portraying people with diabetes as being irresponsible with their health, but that is only because they haven't gone into a lot of exposition about Shelby's specific disease. There is only the one exchange between her and her mother ("Diabetics have healthy babies all the time." "You are _special_ Shelby, there are _limits_ to what you can do.") and the brief explanation that her doctors have said she _shouldn't_ have children (with only the implication that they have advised this due to the risks to her health). But I had an aunt who had Type 1 diabetes in the late 1980's, and I saw her go through the occasional seizure, and there was a time when paramedics took her out of the house one morning on a stretcher in a diabetic coma (luckily she came out of it within 3 days), and she was VERY careful with everything she ate or drank and taking her shots and checking her sugar. More to the point, people forget that this movie was a stage play first, and that the play is based on the family experience of the death of author Robert Harling's sister, Susan Harling-Robinson, in 1985 from diabetic complications after the birth of her son and the failure of a family-member-donated kidney. Following the death, a writer friend advised him to write it down to come to terms with the experience. He originally penned it as a short story to give his nephew an understanding of the child's deceased mother. It evolved in ten days to a play performed Off-Broadway before being adapted for the Steel Magnolias movie. Harling wanted the audience to have a true representation of what his family endured. Yes, the movie's representation of Shelby's diabetes _is_ extreme, but that is because she had a more specific type of diabetes, and this was true to Harling's experience in the 80s.
Also, this is why M'Lynn said that she and Drum both wanted Shelby to quit her nursing job so she would not be on her feet all day and "be kinder to [her] circulatory system". It wasn't some old-fashioned idea of "married women should not work" but more of the idea that if she was marrying a man who had lots of money so she didn't _have_ to work, then she should not, for her health. Julia Roberts was only 19 when she played this role, and Shelby is supposed to be roughly 24-25 at the start of the movie, so she was likely still living at home because she has been to college and then to nursing school, so she likely has only been out of school for about a year. Her form of diabetes probably had a lot to do with it as well; my aunt still lived at home throughout most of her life, she just lived in the downstairs apartment of her parent's house, where she had her own entrance and privacy, but she was still near family who knew what to do for her if she had a sudden drop in blood sugar and needed to call for help.
Her brother, Harling began writing the play after learning that his brother-in-law remarried months after Susan's death. He wanted to share the story with his nephew so that he would know who his mother was. Harling said, "All I wanted to do was have somebody remember her". MONTHES! He was cheating on her.
Dolly's husband in the movie is kind of reminiscent of the one she has the real world. He was also a contractor like that concrete or something like that.. drywall whatever. The point is he's kind of the background kind of guy too and he doesn't want to steal her thunder and he's very handsome and understated type of things. But he actually does compliment her much like Dolly's husband in this movie compliments her she's outward and kind and very what's the word and outgoing to for the person and he's an introvert opposites attract.😅
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“I’m not mean, I’ve just been in a bad mood for 40 years!”
This movie is CONSTANTLY quoted by me and friends.
In the end it’s also beautifully tragic. Sally Field should have won the Oscar, and I’ll never forgive the Academy for not giving it to her.
Absolutely!!! No matter how many times I watch it, her scene at the funeral gets my face wet every time 😢❤
My Mother recites that line about herself at least once a year😂
She wasn't even nominated that year, and considering the nominees, she should've been.
I thought she did? Wow so she got cheated out of her Oscar too just like Hayley Joel Osment did for the sixth sense? How dare they
This is a true story written by the brother who's sister dies from complications of Type 1 Diabetes. Susan Harling Robertson is the real name of the woman.. RIP Susan, this movie means so much to so many.
Yes, and the author appears in the film as the priest.
The real husband married only 5 or 6 months after his wife died. The little boy called his step mother...Mama. That is why Shelbys real life brother wrote the play so his nephew would know about his mother.
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He said he chose to play the priest because the priest was present for the happiest and saddest moments in his family's life.
Came here to say this! Yep it was about his sister and mom and the women in his life.
When she screams “WHY?!” I always lose it. I always did, but after my husband died I realised just how exact that emotion was. Sally Field is an amazing actress.
I cry every time at the cemetery scene. My oldest daughter was born in 1989 the year this movie came out and I went to the theater to see it. Little did I know that the movie would take on even more significance when my oldest was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes herself at 10 1/2 years old. Couldn't watch the movie for a long time after she was diagnosed, but eventually was able to. Still is one of my all time favorite movies. My daughter is almost 35, married with 2 children, and is doing fine now.
The longest 6 hours of my life were in the hospital waiting room while my youngest son was getting his new kidney. 3 years on dialysis. A lovely young woman, a total stranger, came 500 miles to donate. She is an angel here on earth.
It’s common for people whose blood sugar gets too low to lose control of themselves and not know who they are or who anyone else is. Happened to my dad once and it had him speaking with a British accent and he didn’t know who I was until I got his blood sugar back up and he gained consciousness. It’s very scary. because of course if you get too low it’s fatal.
LOL I had a low so bad once...once I came around, there was an empty cereal bowl and a jar of nutella and a jar of peanut butter in front of me. Not sure how long I had been there. Lows are the WORST. Fortunately I don't have ones that bad that often.
Julia did a great acting job it was so realistic My little sister had type 1 childhood diabetes and I had witnessed her low blood sugar dropping like that. The sweating, irritability and confusion. Even the way we had to make her drink juice and she would fight it. We lost her at almost 14 years old when I had just turned 19.
I had a coworker who is a diabetic and me and her were always working so I could recognize when she needed to take a break and eat a snack and drink some juice.
@@lisann229I’m so sorry for your loss. I’ve been very fortunate to have woken from lows I shouldn’t have. I pray God brings you merciful healing and grace.
I lost my oldest son to a car wreck in 2018. The scene in the cemetery is so accurate, I still have trouble even watching that scene. I feel that pain.
I feel for you. I have watched this movie several times, but seeing it after losing my daughter last year, it was just so painful.
I'm sorry for your loss. I lost my late Husband in 2013. I understand... I was the same.
@@gerrisutton7586I'm sorry for your loss as well. Hugs
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Absolute favorite movie! Went with the whole family to see this. The entire theatre was in tears and laughing at the same time. The cemetery scene wrecks me every time
I cry everytime too! Went to the theater to see it and the same thing, the whole theater was sobbing and laughing at the same time. My daughter was born that year as well. This movie took on a different meaning for me in 2000 though when the same daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at 10 1/2 years old. She is almost 35 now and married with two children. She is doing fine, but I could not watch this movie for a long time right after she was diagnosed.
Based on a true story,Robert Harling who plays the minister,actually wrote a play about his sister Susan Harling Robinson,who died of type 1 diabetes complications.Shelby played by Julia Roberts is based on her.
This was really good. They tried to do a remake of it with Queen Latifah a few years ago and it just didn’t work. I think it’s because you know this is a true story. Sometimes you just cannot do better than the original and you need to not even try.
The remake was just as good. The cast was just as talented. The problem was that it was a television film instead of a theatrical or streaming release.
Low blood sugar can do that. You get sweaty, dizzy, shaky, confused, your heart pounds and your vision gets blurry. Diabetes is also hard on your kidneys; it's a leading cause of kidney failure.
Well it's a true story, so there's that too.
A girl that I was friends with back in high school has a sister-in-law who is a type1 brittle diabetic. One time when she was having a low blood sugar episode, I saw her throw her 6'4' 260 lb husband halfway across the room and into a wall, because he was trying to get her to take a glucose tablet. So we all (my friend's brother and dad, plus us two 15 year old girls) had to hold her down to get some juice in her, because she was fighting so much and wouldn't take the tablet. Scary. Luckily she did much better with controlling her blood sugar after getting an insulin pump shortly after that incident.
I think if it gets bad enough it can lead to coma. Like, 95% sure LOL
Beautiful and heartwarming and tragic, I lost my brother 18 yrs ago to cancer he was just 29, the pain i felt cant top what my mother went through, Sally Fields performance pretty much sums it up how a parent would react to losing a child. It hurts for me so much but not like my parents. Grief is a weird thing, you never get over it you just live with it and sometimes smile and the good times and cry when you need to
favorite quote of this movie "id rather have 30 minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special"
“I’m not crazy M’Lynn. I’ve just been in a very bad mood for forty years!”.
Sally Field’s acting in that cemetery scene is actually taught in acting classes. It doesn’t get better than that
Hope you both are doing alright havent heard from you guys in almost 1 month
More like 3 months now. Even their patreon page havent been updated since July....
@@Vanacloud i could be wrong but it seems like they split up, hes got his own channel now and shes nowhere to be seen on it
@@KurayamiSaidai Oh no! That sucks :( What's his channel
@@KurayamiSaidaiwhat’s the channel?
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One of my favorite movies! A very good tear jerker is “Where the Heart Is” starring Natalie Portman
This is one of my top 5 favorite movies of all time!!!!! Sooo glad you guys reacted to it❤❤❤
This is my all-time favorite! Even though I know what happens I cry everytime I watch it. Enjoy ya'lls videos😊
The sound is off. 😢
Yeah, I can't quite get past it. It's a shame because I love the reaction otherwise. But listening to ghostly laughter during scenes where Julia Roberts' character is collapsed on the ground and the baby is screaming? Too much. Can't
Drum (Shelby's Dad) was in Top Gun.
Also, Alien, among many others ❤ Tom Skerritt
Just FYI... Your reaction sounds are off. You have two sets of y'all talking at almost the same time.
This Movie is one of my all time favorite movies! It has all of the emotions.
Y'all should watch Syble. It was one of Sally Fields best movies in my opinion.
The sceen at the cemetery is almost pulled directly from the movie Syble. In the movie she plays a woman with Multiple Personalities Disorder. It's a very good
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I think Dylan looks better now than he did in this movie 😂
7:51 Dylan McDermott wasn't on "Suits" but he was a lead on a series called "The Practice" from 1997-2004. He was also in a few seasons of "American Horror Story", specifically "Murder House" (season 1), "Asylum" (season 2), and a few episodes during "Apocalypse" (season 8). He was also in a couple of episodes of "American Horror Stories", the anthology series Ryan Murphy made (3 seasons so far but Dylan was in 1 or 2 episodes of that).
Dylan McDermott he currently plays in FBI most wanted series, in The Practice 97-2004
That monologue by sally field is amazing. The way she's able to switch the emotions. Way back in the late 70s or early 80s.She did a tv movie called sybil. She played a girl that had like 31 personalities.
Love to see you both react to these films. Lovely :)
“That looks like an autopsy.”
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That’s my favorite line in the whole movie!
Thanks Ouiser, nothing like a good piece of a$$ is my fav
The Doctor giving the news to the family was my uncle and a true Doctor in reality!
@UncleCharlie111 that’s really cool! Was he one of Susan Harling’s doctors? I know the nurses in the movie were her actual nurses.
Hard To Believe It's Been 35 Years Since This Movie Came Out, Great Reactions Everyone
One of my favourite movies, my favourite line is when Clariee says "if you cant say anytbing nice about about anyone come sit by me"
I recommend 'Fried Green Tomatoes' 1991!!!
YES, Fried Green Tomatoes!
I LOVE this movie! So happy you guys are watching it!❤
When you see Dolly in everyday people's clothing, you realize just how tiny she is.
This is based on a True Story written by Susan’s ( real name ) Brother. Her brother actually played the preacher in the movie. Her husband remarried 6 months after she passed away. The line where it says having a baby will make things better always made me wonder what was really happening between the two.
The play is really good :)
When a diabetic has low blood sugar, their behavior can be very similar to a person who is intoxicated. This is because our brain needs sugar to function properly. The pancreas uses insulin to keep our blood sugar at the optimal level, and in diabetics the pancreas starts functioning erratically or not at all. End of lecture, lol. Really enjoyed sharing this great movie with you! 😊
I'm dead. Between asking if this is David Duchovny and if Dolly Parton is a singer.
It's not only set in Louisiana, but a lot of it was filmed there, in a town called Natchitoches. The Christmas Festival is based on a real one they have there during the holiday season :)
Annelle is California Mountain Snake or Elle Driver from Kill Bill. The assassin with the eye patch. And Morticia Addams in Addams Family Reunion. It was weird seeing her so young and dorky in this when I watched this movie for the first time this year. 😂
what's with the audio?
i said the same thing
The editing of the audio gets wonky just passed half way through.
“She sure hides her money well”
The actual nurses that treated the writer's sister were cast in the movie as Shelby's nurses
she was in the throes of a diabetic seizure. Seizures can take all kinds of forms but generally the worse are those where the person is aware of it and instinctively trying to fight against it. . . which can cause more damage than just letting go. As people tense up, lock up and dreadfully panicked about losing control... they do everything in their power to regain control and it can be quite painful.
back in the day, there weren't a lot of options for diabetes control, the form of insulin being used was more expensive to manufacture and aggressive on the system. Sometimes, it could even lead to death because it was too effective. It was taken more during an episode than as a preventative as it is now. There were preventive medications back then but likewise, had serious complications... in addition to often having to take anti-seizure medications, which even to this day, have a long list of side effects that may be worse than having episodes. Also, again, quite damaging during the developmental phases of childhood to young adulthood.. hence, where cbd and cannabis oils have become popular as an alternative. Or for some, the discovery of just how much diet can impact it... albeit, a large part of it relies on special fats that can't be farm to table.
... and the prognosis for childhood diabetes was getting to adulthood but likely an early death all the same, often due to physical stress and complications, which is why they focus early on here with concerns should be a stay at home wife or the fears of having children, engaging in too much activity, and any kind of stress. her mother plays out the problem of many parents of children with health issues or disabilities.. it becomes an identity and there's a greater tendency to infantilize them even as they become adults. . . often due to having to fight for their children's health, and they have a harder time letting go of parental control, they risk becoming micromanagers of their children's lives.. Shelby desired independence, particularly from her mother, yet largely due to her disability, her only way to escape her mother was through marriage. In many ways, she would have had an easier time if she had come from a poorer and more broken family in those regards.. especially in the south (or the midwest, for that matter), where family (as an entire clan of multiple generations) demands often supersede immediate and personal interests... or simply put, suffocating. Even if they knew there were 3rd, 4th, 5th or more options available... it gained it's bucket of crabs reputation in that the majority would just go through the motions of expectations with few, if any major deviations. It was the kind of society where you could cure cancer but until you have children, you're probably sitting at the kiddie table until you mature enough to sit at the spinster, confirmed bachelor and other rejects table. . . with rumours you live in the family attic. (it was the attic in those days, different context than the basement dwellers of today but similar.) -- of course, if you have a tarnished legacy in those parts, then you're bloody free to do anything because there's no real escaping the public shame even if it's generations back... vs say the coasts (and the southwest), which are more nuclear family oriented with the majority separated from their kinfolk and everybody knowing their histories.
the father, Tom Skerritt was known for having bit roles in numerous major films but his most famous role was in a series called "Picket Fences" - albeit, it's largely forgotten now... save for being a breakout role for one of the "Charmed" sisters and another actress that would go on to marry (and divorce) Jim Carrey.
I cry every time!!!
Hope you two are having an great and awesome day ❤
Thanks for watching this great movie👍.
My favorite movie… this and fried green tomatoes are classics in my house.
Having lost my daughter in a murder/suicide last year, this movie hits me different now.
The dad was in Top Gun, Contact, Alien, and several more films.
I'm a parent of a type 1 diabetic, (T1D) and have a love/hate relationship with this movie. I love the acting and humor and drama. I hate that it makes it seem "Shelby has T1D therefore cannot have children." She had Type 1 Diabetes and also had a kidney disorder, which may or may not have been caused by the diabetes. It is the kidney disorder that makes the pregnancy risky, not the type 1 diabetes.
So, my husband is type 1 diabetic, VERY different than type 2. I have watched my husband have quite a few episodes like Shelby had. It happens when you have an insulin reaction. It's absolutely terrifying to watch. Insulin pumps are over $10,000, and the good/stable insulin is about $1000 for a vial that lasts about 1 1/2 weeks. This movie is so hard for me to watch, but it's also amazing
Dolly Parton is a national treasure. Anyone who badmouths Dolly immediately loses all credibility with me.
The diabetics I know get mean when their blood sugar drops too low. A lot of times they will get angry at you for trying to get you help. The meanness is a que that the problem is serious.
The scene at the cemetery never fails to make me burst into tears. Not only from her amazing acting, but my mom looks almost just like her and has similar mannerisms, so it looks like how I imagine my mom would react to my death and of course I sob even more.
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Tom Skerritt was Viper in Top Gun.
"Dang! that boy hurt." LOL
This and the Babysitter's Club had me growing up thinking diabetes was one of the most deadliest things you could have.
So glad I run across this - were headed back to Natchitoches Louisiana in a month or so going to see that house & filming areas. Its a really pretty little town.
This brother sheltered ASMF lol! Uncultured and never left the hood. Oh well never to late! Godbless!
Couple more heartbreaking movies are Kramer vs Kramer, Ordinary People, Mask and Terms of Endearment.
GREAT choices!
The audio is messed up
I love Sally Field is everything, especially “Places in the Heart”.
I grew up 30 miles from Natchitoches Louisiana where the author is from and this movie was filmed. My Mom went and watched some of the filming.
Yall need to wacth fried green tomatoes it's amazing movie! This movie remind me of that movie
I still love this movie even after over 30 years
Your audio editing was overlapping from previous scenes there for a while. But, great reaction! Keep it up guys........xxooxx
So presumably this wedding was the day before Easter.
That's a very churchy weekend for this town. Somebody was working late removing all the Saturday pinkosity in time for Sunday.
Wow, the editing. I would edit and re-upload.
I cant get over than in real life story "Shelbys" husband remarried just 5 months after she died.
It was his sister that died.
I was 10 when that movie came out it's by far one of my favorites next to topgun
I quote this movie ALL THE TIME. One of my all time favs. You guys should also watch Fried Green Tomatoes.... another classic. Great story too.
One Of My All Time Favorite Movies, Great Reactions Everyone
"A boy named Shelby?"
Yup. It's the South. Names have always been interchangeable. I know two men named Ivy.
The first time I saw this my mom was in the hospital for complications of diabetes 😬 we watched it on VCR at a friends home trying to do “normal things” to get my mind off of it.
Sounds like the sound in the last half is mixed up.
I like y’all’s couple reaction. I have seen this before, but I never consider this movie when thinking about what to watch when I have some free time. But watching this reaction makes me remember just how good it is.
They are in the south alright. The family the movie is based on was from Louisiana. The movie was filmed in Natchitoches, LA.
One of the best movies ever, my daughter Shelby is named this movie!
Such a wonderful movie. Yes. Based on a true story. The brother helped with it. ❤❤
Did you know it's a true story? Shelby's brother wrote this screenplay. It started as a play and then it was turned into a movie.
"A boy named Shelby". Fun fact...Shelby was originally a masculine name in the early 1800s all the way up to 1935 when a movie called The Woman in Red featured a woman character named Shelby, after which it started to be more heavily used as a girl's name. Needless to say this movie also added to the popularity of the name. My own oldest niece was named Shelby because my sister loved this movie so much.
I had a neighbor when I was a kid in the 1960s, a boy, named Shelby. That was the only Shelby i had ever known and as far as I knew, it was a boy's name.
Gotta talk at the hair salon 😂
Easter must’ve come very early that year for Ouisa to be wearing a fur coat in the first scene.
I grew up in the South. 1. Easter sometimes comes in March and the weather can be very tricky. 2. If a Southern woman has a fur coat, she is for darn sure gonna wear it to church.
This is my go to movie when I need to CRY
I cry everytime
The audio on this went very strange about 40 minutes or so in. like spliced images of you two from different sections. spliced audio, often repeated from stuff you said earlier. what on earth happened, i wonder. It's like someone took all the audio and video and put it in a blender then spit it back out on the second half 🧐
why on earth cut in you laughing when he comes home to find Shelby unconscious....
Dylan Mcdermott
I once had a friend /coworker who had what is sometimes referred to as a “Brittle diabetic” ( not an actual medical diagnosis) which is basically a form of diabetes that can be really difficult to treat and can be difficult to keep your blood sugar levels, under control. Anyway,if you were close enough and if you knew what to look for it would become obvious really quickly that her blood sugar levels were rapidly starting to get out of control. And the first person to notice that she was having what was commonly referred to as a “sugar attack “ and then somebody would gently guide her to the first aid room and they would her check her blood sugar levels and give her a snack and they would sit there with her until she was okay again.
I always called this the Graveyard Movie when I was little
Fried Green Tomatoes is another great movie. Kathy Bates is hilarious in it. Love this movie so so much, thank you for reacting to steel magnolias. You made this East Tennessee girl happy
Phenomenal choice!!!!
I can vouch for the diabetic episode. My grandmother got downright mean when her sugar would get low.
Something I saw on the making of this movie was the real Shelby's mom was watching the scene when she died. The writer asked his mom not to stay for the scene, but she insisted because after the director called cut, she wanted to she Julia get up out of the bed. That was something that her daughter never got to do.
the dad was in the original Top Gun
Steel Magnolias portrays a time when diabetes management was much different than today - a time before continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) and insulin pumps were mainstream, before the A1C test was established as a “gold standard” for management, and prior to faster-acting insulins and analogues being introduced. Today’s reality is thankfully different, even though economic and cultural gaps certainly exist that keep some people with diabetes from getting ideal treatment. But on top of that, Shelby has a specific kind of diabetes known as Brittle Diabetes, a term to describe individuals with large, unexplained changes in blood glucose concentrations. That means her illness _can’t_ be completely regulated by insulin no matter how careful she is. People with this type of diabetes can have frequent hospitalizations for diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) or hypoglycemia, and often poor patient outcomes (which is why Shelby says no judge would give a baby to someone with her medical record). Sudden drops in sugar level can lead to confusion and irrational behavior. It can ultimately lead to seizures, coma and death if a patient’s sugar level isn’t brought up. (The movie portrays this irrational behavior during a seizure with Shelby fighting back against her mother and demanding to be independent while she is undergoing a seizure.)
These days, this movie gets some pushback for "demonizing" diabetes and portraying people with diabetes as being irresponsible with their health, but that is only because they haven't gone into a lot of exposition about Shelby's specific disease. There is only the one exchange between her and her mother ("Diabetics have healthy babies all the time." "You are _special_ Shelby, there are _limits_ to what you can do.") and the brief explanation that her doctors have said she _shouldn't_ have children (with only the implication that they have advised this due to the risks to her health). But I had an aunt who had Type 1 diabetes in the late 1980's, and I saw her go through the occasional seizure, and there was a time when paramedics took her out of the house one morning on a stretcher in a diabetic coma (luckily she came out of it within 3 days), and she was VERY careful with everything she ate or drank and taking her shots and checking her sugar.
More to the point, people forget that this movie was a stage play first, and that the play is based on the family experience of the death of author Robert Harling's sister, Susan Harling-Robinson, in 1985 from diabetic complications after the birth of her son and the failure of a family-member-donated kidney. Following the death, a writer friend advised him to write it down to come to terms with the experience. He originally penned it as a short story to give his nephew an understanding of the child's deceased mother. It evolved in ten days to a play performed Off-Broadway before being adapted for the Steel Magnolias movie. Harling wanted the audience to have a true representation of what his family endured. Yes, the movie's representation of Shelby's diabetes _is_ extreme, but that is because she had a more specific type of diabetes, and this was true to Harling's experience in the 80s.
Also, this is why M'Lynn said that she and Drum both wanted Shelby to quit her nursing job so she would not be on her feet all day and "be kinder to [her] circulatory system". It wasn't some old-fashioned idea of "married women should not work" but more of the idea that if she was marrying a man who had lots of money so she didn't _have_ to work, then she should not, for her health.
Julia Roberts was only 19 when she played this role, and Shelby is supposed to be roughly 24-25 at the start of the movie, so she was likely still living at home because she has been to college and then to nursing school, so she likely has only been out of school for about a year. Her form of diabetes probably had a lot to do with it as well; my aunt still lived at home throughout most of her life, she just lived in the downstairs apartment of her parent's house, where she had her own entrance and privacy, but she was still near family who knew what to do for her if she had a sudden drop in blood sugar and needed to call for help.
Her brother, Harling began writing the play after learning that his brother-in-law remarried months after Susan's death. He wanted to share the story with his nephew so that he would know who his mother was. Harling said, "All I wanted to do was have somebody remember her". MONTHES! He was cheating on her.
Shelby is just as good of a boy’s name as Carroll. In fact there was a very famous man named Carroll Shelby…
This movie is so good!!
You sir need to stop yelling through the entire movie. Shelby helped every person in the movie. She was special.
Dolly's husband in the movie is kind of reminiscent of the one she has the real world. He was also a contractor like that concrete or something like that.. drywall whatever. The point is he's kind of the background kind of guy too and he doesn't want to steal her thunder and he's very handsome and understated type of things. But he actually does compliment her much like Dolly's husband in this movie compliments her she's outward and kind and very what's the word and outgoing to for the person and he's an introvert opposites attract.😅
The pale bartender. Play he came out in The Mummy as Benny