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Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe
1991
A woman learns the value of friendship as she hears the story of two women and how their friendship shaped their lives in this warm comedy-drama. Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates) is an emotionally repressed housewife with a habit of drowning her sorrows in candy bars. Her husband Ed (Gailard Sartain) barely acknowledges her existence,.. 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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Critics' reviews (5)
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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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"...Handsomely mounted, engagingly performed...[and] wrapped around with an ingratiating score by Thomas Newman..."
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Most helpful members' reviews (3)
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
A film about Friendship, love tragedy, humour and coping with change without taking the easy option. I found the film gripping and the way that the past and ... more
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
I really love this film. No matter how many time I have seen this film it still rips my heart out. It make me laugh and it make me cry. The film is about ... more
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Most recent members' reviews (2)
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Marvellous!
Marvellous film, absorbing storylines in both time zones. Cathy Bates and Jessica Tandy at their best! Well worth a look!
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
EEEEEEYYYYYWWWW-Who would eat fried green tomatoes!!!!- BUT THE FILM'S BRILLIANT
Me & my sister think this film is the best film about tomatoes but had nightmares about trains for days afterwards - only joking - the film is rather soppy ... more
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
A film about Friendship, love tragedy, humour and coping with change without taking the easy option. I found the film gripping and the way that the past and ... more
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
I really love this film. No matter how many time I have seen this film it still rips my heart out. It make me laugh and it make me cry. The film is about ... more
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
So evocative you can almost taste it
A passable interpretation of the book with excellent performances from the four leads. Watching this again it came off much more gay than I remember it being, ... more
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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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3 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Wonderful feel good movie
Showed it to the girls for there 1st time both fell in love with this wonderful classic. It never ages and still brings a tear to your eye a true gem of a movie... more
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
EEEEEEYYYYYWWWW-Who would eat fried green tomatoes!!!!- BUT THE FILM'S BRILLIANT
Me & my sister think this film is the best film about tomatoes but had nightmares about trains for days afterwards - only joking - the film is rather soppy ... more
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Fried Green tomatoes....
I enjoyed this movie as much today as I did 15 years ago. This is a classic.
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
A beautifully and well crafted film involving a warm tale of friendship and tragedy, which runs parellel with the current tribulations of the listener. As the ... more
Critics' reviews (5)
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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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"...Handsomely mounted, engagingly performed...[and] wrapped around with an ingratiating score by Thomas Newman..."
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A pleasant wallow in nostalgia for a less complicated age.
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"...Jessica Tandy is glorious..."
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Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe
A woman learns the value of friendship as she hears the story of two women and how their friendship shaped their lives in this warm comedy-drama. Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates) is an emotionally repressed housewife with a habit of drowning her sorrows in candy bars. Her husband Ed (Gailard Sartain) ...
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