DVD: DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA-YA SISTERHOOD (112 min)

"Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" is a comedy-drama film released in 2002. It features an ensemble cast, with Sandra Bullock in a leading role. Callie Khouri co-wrote and directed the film, which is based on Rebecca Wells' novel from 1996, also called "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood," as well as the collection of short stories that preceded it, "Little Altars Everywhere."

Plot

In 1937 Louisiana, a group of four little girls in the woods at night take a blood oath of loyalty to one another, led by Vivi Abbott. Vivi dubs the group the "Ya-Ya Sisterhood."

Fast forward to the 1990s in New York City, Vivi's eldest daughter, Siddalee "Sidda" Walker, interviews a reporter from Time. In the interview, Sidda mentions her unhappy childhood as a significant source of inspiration for her work. The reporter sensationalizes Sidda's complaint and implies abuse and deep, dark family secrets. The article upsets Vivi, who calls Sidda and angrily declares that she is dead to her. Consequently, Vivi cuts Sidda from her will, and Sidda disinvites Vivi from her upcoming wedding to fiancé Connor McGill.

"Despite the years, Caro Benett, Teensy Whitman, and Necie Kelleher, the other Ya-Ya Sisters, remain friends with Sidda. They decide to take matters into their own hands and kidnap Sidda in New York. They plan to take her back to Louisiana to show her how Vivi's troubled past has caused present issues, including her fight with Sidda."

In the movie "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood", as the Sisters show Sidda Vivi's scrapbook, flashbacks depict Vivi's troubled past from her childhood to Sidda's. These flashbacks reveal Vivi's experiences of witnessing racism at Teensy's aunt and uncle's house, being falsely accused of incest with her father Taylor by her bitter and jealous mother Buggy, and losing the love of her life Jack Whitman, Teensy's older brother, to an aeroplane crash in World War II.