Review of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) by Lara C — 20 Aug 2009
Love that book and the movie.
Beautiful story about friendship, family, broken dreams and struggle.
Ashley Judd and Ellen Burstyn were awesome as Viviane Joan 'Vivi' Abbott Walker. She is such a unique, strange, beautiful, but complicated character. I also like coolness of Shepard James 'Shep' Walker, who was played by James Garner. You really got to have a steall nervs and amazingly huge amount of love to give in order to live with Vivi all those years.
Angus Macfadyen, who play Connor McGill, Siddalee 'Sidda' Walker fiancee, who was played by Sandra Bullock, was so relaxed, calm and interesting character. He too, like Shep, had to put up with strong moody Siddalee, who is very much like her mother Vivi. When those two get in the fight, it last's for amazingly long time.
Of course, I cant rate movie, without mention amazing Ya-Ya's Vivi's best friends, with whom Vivi created secret sisterhood of Ya-Ya priestesses. Teensy, Caro and Necie. They are always there for each other, to the extreme, till the end. They are witted with a sharp tongue, crazy ideas and Bloody Mary... all well preserved with a style in their secret Ya-Ya book of secrets, memories, pain, happiness and sadness.
Funny quotes, hard moments showed in emotional way, sometimes with comic twist and great set of actors make this movie so beautiful.
Girls, if u like movies such as "The sisterhood of traveling pants" and"Now and Then" u will most certanly like this one.
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Caro: The only disease that can survive in our bloodstreams is alcoholism.
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Younger Vivi: Now our blood flows through eachother as is done for all eternity, loyal forever, we raise our voices in the words of Mumbo Gumbo...
YA-YA!
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Teensy: [leans down to inspect her car and shouting] You are soooooo lucky!... if you put one scratch on my baby, I would have your ass!
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[Sidda is silent].
Caro: Speak, bébé.
Sidda: I'm just adding up the thousands of dollars I've spent trying to figure out what the hell I did wrong.
Caro: [to Sidda's father] Shep? Write her a check.
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Teensy: [seeing Caro pull a pill from her purse and begin grinding it up to put into Sidda's drink] What are you doing? What is that?
Caro: It's a roofie or a roopie or something. I got it from a caddy at the club. It's supposed to knock her on her ass!
Teensy: Roofies! No! That's the date rape drug!
Necie Rose Kelleher: We can't do that!
Caro: Well, we can't just conk her on the head!
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This review of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) was written by Lara C on 20 Aug 2009.
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood has generally received mixed reviews.
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