In the Baptist backwoods of the Bible Belt, the beleaguered Turpin family proves that living and dying in the South are seldon tidy and always hilarious. Despite their earnest efforts to pull themselves together for their father's funeral, the Turpin's other problems keep overshadowing the solemn occasion. Not sinve Steel Magnolias has a more colorful and dysfunctional group of Southern eccentrics gathered below the Mason-Dixon line.