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Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

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Reviews Counted: 22 Fresh: 18  Rotten:4 Average Rating: 6.5/10

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Runtime: 2 hrs 17 mins

Synopsis: 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... 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. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Jessica Tandy, Kathy Bates, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, Cicely Tyson

Director: Jon Avnet
Screenwriter: Fannie Flagg, Carol Sobieski
Producer: Jon Avnet, Jordan Kerner, Anne Marie Gillen
Composer: Thomas Newman

DVD Info

Release:

Jun 6, 2006

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Snap Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English
  • Subtitles - English (SDH), French, Spanish

Additional Release Material:

  • Commentary - Jon Avnet - Director
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Featurette - 1. MOMENTS OF DISCOVERY: The Making of FRIED GREEN TOMATOES
  • 2. Sipsey's Recipes
  • Outtakes
  • Trailer - Theatrical Trailer

Text/Photo Galleries:

  • Production Notes
  • Director Jon Avnet's Notes
  • Stills/Photos - Poster Campaign
  • Production Photographs

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06/24/06
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3/5

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04/04/08
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
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2/5

Please no.

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08/09/07
Cole Smithey
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An immensely likable, wonderfully-performed film.

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08/29/06
Chuck O'Leary
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1/4

The picture is about gender politics and a legacy of communal repression that is itself too embarrassed to port over a nearly-platonic-anyway love story between two women.

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08/27/06
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central
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3/4

An enjoyable if sentimental chic flick that sanitizes Flagg's novel in two major respects, glossing over the lesbian relationship between Mary Louise Parker and Mary Stuart Masterson and underplaying the blatant racism in the trail of a black man.

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06/01/06
Emanuel Levy
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3/5

There's just enough human feeling here to make it transcend the feel--good chick-flick genre.

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04/21/06
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
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07/17/05
Emanuel Levy
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5/5

Memorable ensemble, dead-on dialogue.

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12/27/04
Steve Crum
Kansas City Kansan
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2/5

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02/21/04
Frank Swietek
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02/12/04
Randy Shulman
Metro Weekly (Washington, DC)
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3/5

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10/27/03
Ryan Cracknell
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10/02/03
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals
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A wonderful cinematic valentine to the life-enhancing and soul-stirring powers of friendship.

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07/18/03
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice
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3/5

Bates and Tandy shine in what is essentially an extended flashback with the occasional present day bookends.

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07/11/03
Greg Muskewitz
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05/20/03
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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03/23/03
Robert Roten
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08/26/02
Brent Simon
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08/22/02
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
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01/09/02
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