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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

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Drama starring Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy. While visiting a rest home with her husband, an unhappily married housewife meets lively Southern octogenarian Ninny Threadgoode who tells her stories about Idgie, a resolute relative who ran a café with her best friend Ruth in the Depression-era Alabama town of Whistle Stop.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Peter Freedman

Jessica Tandy won an Oscar nomination for her portrayal here as 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, 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, the film could be classified as a "woman's picture". But this truly uplifting and gratifying movie can and should be enjoyed by all.

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7.7/10

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Cast

rolenameIdgie ThreadgoodeMary Stuart MastersonRuthMary-Louise ParkerEvelyn CouchKathy BatesNinny ThreadgoodeJessica TandyEd CouchGailard SartainBig GeorgeStan ShawSipseyCicely TysonGradyGary BasarabaReverend ScrogginsRichard RiehleEva BatesGrace ZabriskieBuddy JrGrayson Fricke

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rolenameDirectorJon Avnet

Details

Theatrical distributor

Rank Film Dists Ltd

Released on

1992-03-13

Languages

English

Guidance

Contains some violence and swearing.

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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