I had always been apprehensicve about watching "Steel Magnolias". I generally find tearjerkers boring and manipulative. I loved "Terms Of Endearment", but that had a lot of humor in it (all coming from Jack Nicholson). But my parents begged me to watch it. Well, I loved it. It is hard for me to put into words how much I loved this movie. I don;t know if it's because everyhting's I wanted to say about it has been said, or becuase I'm too tired to come up with anything good to write. So I will basically rate it like this: