The girls yack and yack and yack some more in "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood," a gabfest in which an estranged Southern mother and daughter sling the hash, egged on by an eccentric circle of ...
Good friends will stick with you through good times and bad. So Vivian Walker learns in her lifelong story of humor, drama and friendship Southern style. Based on Rebecca Wells’ 1996 New York Times ...
All we share, and all we experience, echoes across time.
The girls yack and yack and yack some more in "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood," a gabfest in which an estranged Southern mother and daughter sling the hash, egged on by an eccentric circle of ...
“Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” isn’t so much a movie as a tract, a parable in which the charred wisdom of its characters is much more significant than the intricacies of their lives. Based ...
Director Callie Khouri’s interpretation of “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” is a remarkable experience to remember. This movie portrays sisterhood as something that is not only achieved with ...
he sneak preview seemed less like a screening and more like a rally. Clearly, many members of the predominately female audience were devoted fans of 'Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Little ...
What worked wonderfully in Rebecca Wells' book is trickier on film. While Ya-Ya has its poignant, tear-inducing moments, the flashback framework holds it back. But at its core is a moving story of a ...
"Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" looks at the adventures and travails of this quartet at three different stages in life. The temptation is to distill the obvious "chick flick" properties of ...
Updating Steel Magnolias for the Oprah empire, Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood epitomizes the sort of book-club twaddle that scared off Jonathan Franzen, a thin tale of female bonding and ...
He’s toured with Dylan, sat behind the console for everyone from Los Lobos to Counting Crows, and intermittently made his own albums, on which his pinched voice and off-center songwriting forever ...
Just what is the Ya-Ya Sisterhood? As depicted in ”Divine Secrets,” think the Powerpuff Girls with AARP cards. ”Thelma & Louise” screenwriter Khouri makes her directorial debut with a sprawling ...