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NUMBERS
Box Office: $69,542,820
VHS Rentals: $23,200,000
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CONSENSUS
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is more melodramatic than emotionally truthful, and uneven in its mixture of time periods, actresses, laughter and tears.
CAST & CREW
Sandra Bullock, Ellen Burstyn, Fionnula Flanagan
Directed by Callie Khouri
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SYNOPSIS
Sidda Walker (Sandra Bullock), who is high on life--about to marry Connor (Angus MacFadyen) and flushed with success because her new play is about to open on Broadway--gives an unguarded interview to TIME Magazine. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, mature thematic elements,
RUNTIME
1 hour, 54 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Jun 7, 2002
Video: Nov 5, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Warner Bros.
GENRE
Comedies, Dramas, Friends, Friendships, Small Town Life, Based On A Novel
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Site
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SOUNDTRACK REVIEWS
PARENTS EVALUATION
POSTERS
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
PRODUCTION NOTES
NEWS ARTICLES
LINKS
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "… is an arthritic attempt at directing by Callie Khouri. I had to look away - this was god awful."
-- Victoria Alexander, FILMSINREVIEW.COM
 "It's like a vintage automobile that sometimes runs smoothly, and sometimes lurches and sputters. But it never quite stalls."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
"Maggie Smith as the Ya-Ya member with the O2-tank will absolutely crack you up with her crass, then gasp for gas, verbal deportment."
-- Ross Anthony, HOLLYWOOD REPORT CARD
"The writing is clever and the cast is appealing."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood may not be exactly divine, but it's definitely -- defiantly -- ya ya, what with all of those terrific songs and spirited performances."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE
"It's mostly a pleasure to watch. And the reason for that is a self-aware, often self-mocking, intelligence."
-- Jay Boyar, ORLANDO SENTINEL
"Having had the good sense to cast actors who are, generally speaking, adored by the movie-going public, Khouri then gets terrific performances from them all."
-- Liz Braun, JAM! MOVIES
"Tennessee Williams by way of Oprah's Book Club."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"The latest in a line of chicken-fried chick flicks... "Divine
Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" is a whole lotta ya-ya indeed"
-- Laura Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"If I ever hear someone yell "Ya Ya!" again, I'll do Damage."
-- Rose 'Bams' Cooper, 3BLACKCHICKS REVIEW
"The Ya-Ya's have many secrets and one is - the books are better. Translating complex characters from novels to the big screen is an impossible task but they are true to the essence of what it is to be Ya-Ya."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
"It wraps up a classic mother/daughter struggle in recycled paper with a shiny new bow and while the audience can tell it's not all new, at least it looks pretty."
-- Cheryl DeWolfe, APOLLO GUIDE
"A dull, inconsistent, dishonest female bonding picture."
-- Mark Dujsik, MARK REVIEWS MOVIES
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"The tone errs on the shrill side, tempered by a soft southern gentility that speaks of beauty, grace and a closet full of skeletons."
-- Jeanne Aufmuth, PALO ALTO WEEKLY
"I don't mind having my heartstrings pulled, but don't treat me like a fool."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"What redeems the film is the cast, particularly the Ya-Yas themselves."
-- Betsy Bozdech, REEL.COM
"For all its random chaos, Divine Secrets works because of the power of its convictions -- and its cast."
-- Matt Brunson, CREATIVE LOAFING
"A great cast and a wonderful but sometimes confusing flashback movie about growing up in a dysfunctional family."
-- Chuck the Movieguy, THEMOVIEGUY.COM
"Flaunts its quirky excesses like a New Year's Eve drunk sporting a paper party hat."
-- Carol Cling, LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
"It’s a movie forged in the fires of Chick Flick Hell."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"While this film has an 'A' list cast and some strong supporting players, the tale -- like its central figure, Vivi -- is just a little bit hard to love."
-- Mike DeWolfe, APOLLO GUIDE
"The film is faithful to what one presumes are the book's twin premises -- that we become who we are on the backs of our parents, but we have no idea who they were at our age; and that time is a fleeting and precious commodity no matter how old you are."
-- Duane Dudek, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"A dream cast of solid female talent who build a seamless ensemble. There isn't a weak or careless performance amongst them."
-- Michael Elliott, MOVIE PARABLES
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ROTTEN 50%
Avg. Rating: 5.6/10 |
"Ya-Yas everywhere will forgive the flaws and love the film."
-- Melissa Ward Aguilar, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"The makers of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood should offer a free ticket (second prize, of course, two free tickets) to anyone who can locate a genuinely honest moment in their movie."
-- John Anderson, NEWSDAY
"As 'chick flicks' go, this one is pretty miserable, resorting to string-pulling rather than legitimate character development and intelligent plotting."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"There is not a character in the movie with a shred of plausibility, not an event that is believable, not a confrontation that is not staged, not a moment that is not false."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"As someone who couldn't even finish the Rebecca Wells' best-seller and approached the movie with utter dread, I was pleasantly surprised."
-- Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
"Sure, it's contrived and predictable, but its performances are so well tuned that the film comes off winningly, even though it's never as solid as you want it to be."
-- Renee Graham, BOSTON GLOBE
"The only question ... is to determine how well the schmaltz is manufactured -- to assess the quality of the manipulative engineering. Average, at best, I'm afraid."
-- Rick Groen, GLOBE AND MAIL
"The milieu is wholly unconvincing ... and the histrionics reach a truly annoying pitch."
-- Mark Holcomb, VILLAGE VOICE
"For all its failed connections, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is nurturing, in a gauzy, dithering way."
-- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES
"If Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood suffers from a ploddingly melodramatic structure, it comes to life in the performances."
-- Ann Hornaday, WASHINGTON POST
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"Khouri manages, with terrific flair, to keep the extremes of screwball farce and blood-curdling family intensity on one continuum."
-- F.X. Feeney, L.A. WEEKLY
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