A playwright of some renown, Sidda has recently been the subject of a Time magazine article that mentions her troubled childhood (including mom’s alcoholism, physical abuse, abandonment, and basic cantankerousness) as a possible source for her art. Structured as a series of flashbacks, the film, following this charming childhood scene, provides the requisite jumpstart crisis in the relationship between the de facto leader of the Ya-Yas, Vivi (now grown up to be Ellen Burstyn) and her daughter, Sidda (Sandra Bullock). But while the books are surely beloved and first-time director Callie Khouri, best known as the writer of Thelma & Louise, comes with all sorts of girl powery credentials, her new movie is worn out before it begins. The girls cut their palms (slightly), press them to one another’s, in order to form a blood-flow circle, then raise their voices in unison: “Loyalty forever! Ya-Ya!” Sparks fly up from the flames, the camera pulls out, and yet another ensemble chick flick is born.īased on Rebecca Wells’ popular novels, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Little Altars Everywhere, this particular flick is adeptly positioned as counter-programming to the summer’s action pix. The camera pans their sweet, illuminated faces as they exchange significant glances, and the ritual begins. On a dark and unstormy night, four young girls gather round a small campfire in the woods.
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