Much of the action revolves around a small Southern town's beauty shop, managed by lusty, straight-talkin' Truvy Jones. Her regular customers and close friends include devoted mother M'Lynn Eatenton, who's worried that her diabetic daughter Shelby Eatenton Latcherie isn't up to raising her newborn child. Ouiser Boudreaux, the town's tart-tongued curmudgeon and Clairee Belcher, a no-nonsense matron who's Ouiser Boudreaux frequent sparring partner, and Annelle Dupuy Desoto, Truvy Jones ditzy assistant. "Steel Magnolias" has a extraordinary ensemble of female actors, each of them cast to perfection. A movie that generates laughter and tears with equal facility. This movie is worth watching.