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Fried Green Tomatoes, 1991
English
USA
Profile of Fried Green Tomatoes
The mood of Fried Green Tomatoes is emotional, sentimental, and captivating. The plot centers around a midlife crisis, best friends, and small town life. It is a drama, comedy, and period movie. Stylistically, Fried Green Tomatoes stars a strong female character. In approach, it is realistic. The pacing is slow. Fried Green Tomatoes takes place, at least partly, in a small town. The setting is Alabama and Louisiana. It happens in the 1920s and in the 1990s. The musical score of Fried Green Tomatoes is oldies and orchestral. It is based on a book. The movie is known for being a modern classic, an award winner, and critically acclaimed. Fried Green Tomatoes is especially suggested for a girls' night. Note that it includes mild violent content.
Summary of Fried Green Tomatoes
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.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 27 December 1991 |
| Runtime: | 130 min |
Cast and Crew
as Ninny Threadgoode
as Evelyn Couch
as Idgie Threadgoode
as Ruth Jamison
as Sipsey
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- 20.March.2009
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- by: matalec
- matalec rated this movie
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- 21.October.2008
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- by: Susaner
- Susaner rated this movie8/10Great
