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Fried Green Tomatoes

12 Ratings: 4.1

A movie directed by Jon Avnet

Kathy Bates stars as an unhappy wife trying to get her husband's attention in this amusing and moving 1991 screen adaptation of Fannie Flagg's novelFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. After befriending a lonely old woman (Jessica Tandy), … see full wiki

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Cast: Kathy Bates, Mary-Louise Parker, Mary Stuart Masterson, Cicely Tyson, Jessica Tandy

Director: Jon Avnet

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review by gradyharp. November 03, 2006

posted in Movie Hype

An Old Friend of a Movie

There are films that linger in memory for the warmth they exude and the impression they leave. So it is with the now 15 year old film FRIED GREEN TOMATOES based on the novel 'Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe' by Fannie Flagg and arranged for the screen by that author. This is a film that explores racism, feminism, respect for the elderly, women's rights, and so very much more in a manner that is infectious to watch repeatedly and defies forgetting. Told on two … more

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review by AdamHunnicutt. March 08, 2006

posted in Movie Hype

A Life Forever Changed... the end of the trilogy...

Have you ever watched a movie so many times, that it becomes embedded into you? You know every line and all the characters, as if it had all really happened to your life? Fried Green Tomatoes is one of those movies for me. Also, I think you will be surprised at the "real" connections my family has to the film. Fannie Flag wrote a book about a peculiar little town called whistlestop. The newspaper has a fit about a comet falling from the sky, and all of the locals are in a … more

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review by SusiDee34. May 27, 2000

posted in Movie Hype

Anyone in for a little barbecue?

Pros: Great cast Cons: ...... While on a visit to the rest home with her husband to visit his aunt, Evelyn (Kathy Bates) meets up with Ninny (Jessica Tandy), well known for her stories. Since the aunt hates Evelyn, she is also stuck in the waiting room and therefore gets to spend a lot of time with Ninny and her remarkable memories of times past. Flashing back we find Mary Stuart Masterson as the owner and operator of the … more

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