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  • Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe
  • Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe review by from London, England
    Rated - 5 stars Overwhelming, compelling... 9 February 2005
    ...aked display of emotions. Kathy Bates shows once again the power of her acting. Jessica Tandy is incomparable, a fine actress that has inspired too many generations. It's a ...  
  • The Bostonians
  • The Bostonians review by skeadugenga from Reading, England
    Rated - 1 stars Not terribly interesting 24 November 2004
    ...d the wooden acting of the female lead. Some good supporting performances from Jessica Tandy and Vanessa Redgrave, but they don't get all that much screen time. Of course ...  
  • Butley
  • Butley review by from I wish I knew-don't we all!?
    Rated - 5 stars Bates pulls it off! 19 December 2004
    ...es is ably assisted by excellent supporting preformances by Richard O'Callaghan,Jessica Tandy and Michael Bryant, playing the various satellites who revolve around the centr...  

Jessica Tandy - filmography


  • Nobody's Fool (1994)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  Jessica Tandy,  Melanie Griffith
    Director: Robert Benton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Paul Newman earned an Oscar nomination plus Best Actor honors from the National Society of Film Critics and New York Film Critics Circle for his portrayal of Sully, a likeable working stiff who's made a lifetime of bad decisions. But he unexpectedly has a chance to make right on some of them when ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 89 members
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  • Driving Miss Daisy on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Morgan Freeman,  Jessica Tandy,  Dan Aykroyd
    Director: Bruce Beresford
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Director Bruce Beresford's affinity for the subtleties of southern life is apparent in this adaptation of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Starring Jessica Tandy as Daisy Werthan and Morgan Freeman as Hoke Colburn, the film opens in late-1940s Atlanta. Since Miss Daisy is becoming a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 5,956 members
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  • Cocoon The Return on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Don Ameche,  Courteney Cox,  Wilford Brimley
    Director: Daniel Petrie
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When the space travellers return to Earth on a special rescue mission, they are reunited with their own families and friends who they left behind when they were offered the gift of eternal youth by benevolent aliens. To their delight they soon realise that Earth isn't the worst planet in the galaxy.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,797 member
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  • Cocoon on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Don Ameche,  Wilford Brimley,  Hume Cronyn
    Director: Ron Howard
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A group of senior citizens residing in a rest home find their lives turned upside down after they are offered the gift of eternal youth by benevolent aliens in Ron Howard's wonderful tribute to the human spirit. Brian Dennehy is Walter, an alien who returns to earth to rescue 20 of his friends now ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 4,544 members
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  • The Bostonians on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Christopher Reeve,  Vanessa Redgrave,  Jessica Tandy
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Director James Ivory brings Henry James's classic novel THE BOSTONIANS to the screen in this evocative, historical adaptation filled with exciting, exacting performances. The story centers on the fight between an ardent feminist and a southern gentleman for a charismatic faith healer's daughter. ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 267 members
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  • Butley on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Alan Bates,  Jessica Tandy,  Georgina Hale
    Director: Harold Pinter
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This adaptation of Simon Gray's BUTLEY was part of the American Film Theatre series, conceived in the 1970s by producer Ely Landau and meant to be shown theatrically just like a play, with tickets sold in advance. Alan Bates stars as Ben Butley, a bitter and repressed English literature professor ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 240 members
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  • The Birds on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Rod Taylor,  Tippi Hedren,  Jessica Tandy
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In THE BIRDS, Alfred Hitchcock's heart-pounding followup to PSYCHO, the director couples a tone of rigorous morality with dark humor to create a thriller that begins as a light comedy and ends as an apocalyptic allegory. Wealthy, reformed party girl Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) enjoys a brief ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 13,335 members
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  • The Desert Fox on DVD (1951)
    Starring: James Mason,  Cedric Hardwicke,  Jessica Tandy
    Director: Henry Hathaway
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    James Mason delivers a strong performance in the title role of this sympathetic study of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. In the early '40s, Rommel's juggernaut Afrika Korps dominated North Africa. But as the tide turned and he came to the painful realization that his Fuhrer, to whom he had sworn ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 625 members
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Jessica Tandy facts

5 most recent films

Nobody's Fool - 3.5 stars
Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe - 3.5 stars
Driving Miss Daisy - 3.5 stars
Cocoon The Return - 3.0 stars
The House On Carroll Street - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season Three - 4.0 stars
Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe - 3.5 stars
Nobody's Fool - 3.5 stars
The Birds - 3.5 stars
Driving Miss Daisy - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Bostonians - 2.5 stars
Honky Tonk Freeway - 2.5 stars
The House On Carroll Street - 3.0 stars
Butley - 3.0 stars
Cocoon The Return - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Hume Cronyn - 4 times - show films
Gwen Verdon - 2 times - show films
Don Ameche - 2 times - show films
Wilford Brimley - 2 times - show films
Steve Guttenberg - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Alfred Hitchcock - 2 times - show films
James Ivory - 1 times - show films
Robert Benton - 1 times - show films
Robert Stevens - 1 times - show films
Bruce Beresford - 1 times - show films