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Released
1989 · FILM

Steel Magnolias

A young beautician joins a close‑knit Southern salon and must navigate love, loss, and fierce loyalty as the women's unbreakable bond is tested by tragedy.

“Six extraordinary friends. They share each other's laughter. They dry each other's tears.”

Directed by
Herbert Ross, Herbert Ross Nm0006889
Written by
Robert Harling
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
118 min
ComedyDramaRomance

Synopsis

A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship and welcome her into the fold.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 206+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Paul HirschShot by John A AlonzoScored by Georges DelerueDesigned by Gene CallahanSound by Tom Bellfort Nm0068938

Box Office

1989 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 6.4× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$95.9M

Budget$15.0M
Worldwide gross$95.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $83.8M — 87% of worldwide · International: $12.1M (13%)

Opening weekend: $5.4M — 6% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $8.6M — 10% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 480 theaters

Re-release box office

2019689 theaters
$1.4M($1.7M today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Also known as

  • Magnolien aus Stahlde
  • Magnolien aus Stahl - Die Stärke der Frauende
  • Potins de femmesfr
  • Fiori d'acciaioit

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