This is one of my favorite all-time movies.  It's set in Lousiana.  Julia Roberts, Sally Field, Olivia Dukakis, Shirley Maclaine, Dolly Parton, and Darryl Hannah are the main stars of the movie.  It starts out as a group of women in a beauty salon getting ready for Julia Roberts' character's wedding.  We meet Darryl Hannah's character in the beginning as she comes by looking for work and a place to stay.  The story goes over a period of time from Shelby's wedding to the birth of her son and her kidney transplant and her death.  At the end of the movie, it shows Darryl Hannah's character heading off to the hospital to have her baby.  During the movie, Darry's character went to beauty school, fell in love, got married, and became pregnant.  Too bad that a sequel was not made.