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Fried Green Tomatoes

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Fried Green Tomatoes
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PG13,2hrs 10min
Genres:
Comedy,Drama
Released:
December 27, 1991
Director:
Jon Avnet
Distributor:
Universal Pictures
Starring:
Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson  ...more
Synopsis: 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, and while he visits his aunt at a nursing home every week, Evelyn is not permitted to come into the room because the old women doesn't like her. One week, while waiting out ... Full Synopsis
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Derek Armstrong, AMG Review
Fried Green Tomatoes is a warm adaptation of Fannie Flagg's popular women's novel that does equal justice to its two featured time periods, while offering useful messages about friendship and standing up for oneself. However, it does teeter on the edge of man-hating and the related exaggerations now and again. How else to explain that sympathetic Ruth Jamison (Mary Louise-Parker) gets romantically ... Full Review
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Kathy Bates
Evelyn Couch
Jessica Tandy
Ninny Threadgoode
Mary Stuart Masterson
Idgie Threadgoode
Mary-Louise Parker
Ruth Jamison
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