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All rights reserved.| Movie Description Academy Award winners Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy star with Mary Stuart Masterson and Mary-Louise Parker in this comic, heartwarming tale of family, friendship and murder in rural Georgia. In a Southern nursing home, a feisty resident and old local fixture named Ninny Threadgoode (Tandy) befriends Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates) a depressed housewife and stirs her to action with an inspirational tale. She tells the story of a transcendent friendship between two young women living in Georgia in the 1930s, Idgie Threadgoode (Mary Stuart Masterson) and Ruth (Mary Louise Parker), who forge a powerful bond after witnessing a terrible tragedy together. The two women open a cafe (where fried green tomatoes are a house specialty) together in their small Southern town of Whistle Stop and manage to survive the hardships of life, despite racism, prejudice and the pressures of trying to live their lives as individuals in a strict and close-minded Southern society. Their friendship lasts through many ups and downs over the years, helping one of the women through an abusive marriage, and buoying both of them through the gossip and jealousy of those small-minded people who try to control their lives. Based on Fannie Flagg's best-selling novel FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLE STOP CAFE.
Editorial Reviews Rolling Stone - p.50 - Peter Travers (01/23/1992) Sight and Sound - p.56 - Geoff Brown (03/01/1992) Los Angeles Times - Kenneth Turan (12/27/1991) | See an error? Submit a change request | ||||||||||
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Top ReviewsReview created: 09/24/06 5 of 8 people found this review helpful. We have watched our VHS version quite a few times. This is the Anniversary Edition on DVD of Fried Green Tomatoes! It will bring a few tears to your eyes! In this movie, an elderly woman at a nursing home tells a tale of two woman to a middle-aged woman played by Kathy Bates. It is set in the south around the 1930s and brings up topics of bigotry and men. One of my favorite quotes of the movie is from Kathy Bates - I'm older than you and I have more insurance - as takes over a parking spot. In fact, I have seen this scene and quote used in insurance commercials. I never heard of fried green tomatoes until this movie and these two women open a restaurant where this is a speciality. I traveled to NY and one of the deli's had this and I got to try it. Really Good. You will enjoy the drama and comedy in this movie. A great Anniversay Edition! Review ID: 10000000001903438 Was this review helpful? Report this review |

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