Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood (film)

Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood is a 2002 American comedydrama film starring an ensemble cast headed by Sandra Bullock, directed and written by Callie Khouri. It is based on Rebecca Wells novel of the same name and its prequel collection of short stories, Little Altars Everywhere.

The film then moves to New York City in the 1990s, where Vivianes eldest daughter, playwright Siddalee Walker Sandra Bullock, while overseeing production of her newest release, gives an interview with a reporter from Time, mentioning her unhappy childhood as a major source of inspiration for her work. The reporter sensationalizes Siddas complaint, implying abuse and deep, dark family secrets.Vivi Ellen Burstyn reads the article and becomes extremely upset. She calls Sidda, but instead of speaking can only bang the phone on the table while crying that she is dead to her. Sidda, equally frustrated by her mothers behavior, also bangs her phone against the counter after Vivi has hung up on her. Much to the frustration of her fianc, Connor McGill Angus Macfadyen, Sidda takes her mothers behavior as a declaration of allout war. Vivi takes down all the pictures of Sidda in her house, cuts her face out of family pictures, and mails the defaced pictures to Sidda, along with a copy of her will with Siddas name marked out. Sidda in turn sends Vivi a newly printed wedding invitation with the time and place cut out, plus tornup tickets to her play. ........

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