12 Days: Steel Magnolias

'Spud, get in here and finish dyeing these easter eggs'

Truvy

For some reason, EASTER is one of one the most difficult holidays to find a movie for my 12 Days holiday series.  Christmas and Halloween are always easy, even Thanksgiving and the 4th of July have proved relatively easy, but with EASTER, I'm always on the hunt for just the right film

Over the years, I've emptied the egg carton with every possible film and genre I could find.  I've done the Classics, (HERE:) The Hallmark holiday films, (HERE:) The religious, (HERE:) and even the oddly normal, Easter themed horror flicks. (HERE:) Easter Casket or Peter Rottentail anyone? 

This year, I went for more mainstream flick, no not really an Easter film, but a movie filmed with Holiday imagery.  The 1989 comedy drama Steel Magnolias covered almost every holiday over it's 1 hour and 57 minutes.  Every holiday was shot as incredibly colorful and visually, over-the-top.  It's set and scenic director seemed to be going for an almost fantasy feel.  What we think, or remember holidays look like in our childhood dreams.

If you've seen the film, you know it's bookmarked by Easter scenes.  As the film introduces it's characters, there are scenes with the women surrounded by pastel colored eggs, all waiting, to be taken to the town's annual Easter Egg Hunt.  If you saw the movie, you know some of them didn't make it...

The film ends a few years later, again on the day of the town's Easter Egg Hunt.  This time we see the hunt, as well as the Easter Bunny preparing to lay his eggs.  Again the scene is visually like a dream. A sunny day, a lush flowered hill, and  beautiful children dressed to the nines searching for Easter eggs.

So... now that we've established Steel Magnolias is Easter enough, how exactly does it connect to FH.  Well... first off,  although the film is led by a cast of power house actress's, there are some great actors in supporting roles.  Some of them have also had some interesting nude scenes in there past. Then of course... there's that notable scene in the locker room.  Re-watch that locker room scene (with HD Caps) HERE: & Check out my favorite nude scenes from male cast members HERE: