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Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe
1991
In a Southern nursing home, a feisty resident (Jessica Tandy) befriends a depressed housewife (Kathy Bates) and stirs her to action with an inspirational tale. She tells the story of a transcendent friendship between two young women living in Alabama in the 1930s, who forge a powerful bond after witnessing a terrible tragedy .. Read more
| Starring | Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Marie-Louise Parker |
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| Director | Jon Avnet |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama |
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Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe
In a Southern nursing home, a feisty resident (Jessica Tandy) befriends a depressed housewife (Kathy Bates) and stirs her to action with an inspirational tale. She tells the story of a transcendent friendship between two young women living in Alabama in the 1930s, who forge a powerful bond after witnessing a terrible tragedy together. 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 the small-minded people who try to control their lives. This clever, heartwarming film is based on the novel FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLE STOP CAFE by Fannie Flagg.
| Starring | Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Marie-Louise Parker, Cicely Tyson, Stan Shaw, Chris O'Donnell |
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| Director | Jon Avnet |
| Studio | ITV DVD |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 4 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Feisty Females |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 09 Sep 2002 Production year: 1991 |
| Format | DVD |
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Jessica Tandy won an Oscar nomination for her portrayal here of an old-timer in the American south, telling tales about the bigotry she encountered during her youth in the 1930s. Kathy Bates is almost as good as Tandy, playing a modern-day housewife and frump in the dumps, who visits Tandy in a nursing home and finds inspiration in her memories of the past. Essentially a story about friendship between two pairs of women, then and now, this could be classified as an intelligent woman's picture, but this truly uplifting and gratifying movie can and should be enjoyed by all.
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Southern housewife Evelyn (Bates) has had enough of her couch-potato husband (Sartain). Their sex life is dying, and... read more on Time Out
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11 out of 11 people found this review helpful
WONDERFUL
This film was one of the best i've seen. I sat down to watch it under protest but soon I was caught in its spell and never wanted it to end.
The acting and scenery were superb.
You could really relate to the main characters and could feel for them.
It made me crie quite a lot and that doesn't usually happen to me.
It was a beautifully told story and the writing was brilliant.
This might not usually be your sort of film but I really think you should watch this and you might be surprised -
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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Good but....
A great film, but I would read the book as well. The book is essentially the story of a young lesbian. This is almost totally erased from the film.
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Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe
In a Southern nursing home, a feisty resident (Jessica Tandy) befriends a depressed housewife (Kathy Bates) and stirs her to action with an inspirational tale. She tells the story of a transcendent friendship between two young women living in Alabama in the 1930s, who forge a powerful bond after ...
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