Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Four lifelong girlfriends take action when one has a falling-out with her daughter. A solid veteran cast stars in this adaptation of author Rebecca Wells’ works. Directorial debut for Oscar-winning screenwriter Callie Khouri (“Thelma & Louise”). Bette Midler co-executive produced., Vivi Walker hasn’t fallen out with her three oldest pals, but she’s stretched their patience to the limit. Her daughter Sidda is worried about getting married and having kids, fearing that she’ll repeat Vivi’s boozy rages. So Vivi’s friends, the Ya-Yas, resolve to help Sidda., Screenwriter Callie Khouri makes her directorial debut with this adaptation of a pair of popular novels by author Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Little Altars Everywhere. Sandra Bullock stars as Sidda Lee Walker, a New York playwright who opens a can of emotional worms with her estranged, boozy mother, Vivi (Ellen Burstyn), when she discusses her painful childhood and particularly Vivi’s less-than-enviable mothering skills in a Time magazine article. The eccentric Louisiana drama queen Vivi has already been barred from her daughter’s oft-delayed wedding to her fiancé, Connor (Angus Macfadyen), so the article sends her into a rage. Coming to the rescue of the relationship are Necie (Shirley Knight), Caro (Maggie Smith), and Teensy (Fionnula Flanagan), a trio of bickering women, who, along with Vivi, formed a secret society of feminist empowerment and friendship 60 years earlier that they dubbed the “Ya-Ya Sisterhood.” The Ya-Yas kidnap Sidda and bring her home to Louisiana, where they reveal to Sidda via a carefully maintained scrapbook her mother’s painful past (with Vivi portrayed in flashback by Ashley Judd), effecting a rapprochement between mother and daughter. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood also stars James Garner., Four lifelong girlfriends take action when one has a falling-out with her daughter. A solid veteran cast stars in this adaptation of author Rebecca Wells’ works.Directorial debut for Oscar-winning screenwriter Callie Khouri (“Thelma & Louise”). Bette Midler co-executive produced., This touching and funny comedy-drama features an impressive cast. Four lifelong girlfriends band together when one has a major falling-out with her daughter, a successful playwright who paints an unflattering picture of her mother in an interview., Siddalee Walker is a famous New York playwright. One of her new plays is about to open and she does an interview with Time magazine and discusses her unhappy childhood. When her mother reads the interview she is furious and cuts off all contact with Siddalee. Her mother’s friends, who formed a secret society, the Ya-Ya Sisterhood when they were children, kidnap Siddalee from her apartment and take her home to Louisiana. Back home in the South they explain why her mother acted the way she did with help from the secret Ya-Ya scrapbook and lots of flashbacks.