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    Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

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

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    Jessica Tandy won an Oscar nomination for her portrayal here of the old-timer in the American south, telling tales about the bigotry she encountered during her youth in the 1930s.

    Bates is almost as good, playing the modern-day housewife and frump in the dumps, who finds inspiration in Tandy’s memories of the past.

    Essentially a story about friendship between two pairs of women, then and now, it could be classified as an intelligent woman’s picture, but this truly uplifting and gratifying movie – based on Fannie Flagg’s best-selling novel – can and should be enjoyed by all.

    Idgie Threadgoode
    Mary Stuart Masterson
    Ruth
    Mary-Louise Parker
    Evelyn Couch
    Kathy Bates
    Ninny Threadgoode
    Jessica Tandy
    Ed Couch
    Gailard Sartain
    Big George
    Stan Shaw
    Sipsey
    Cicely Tyson
    Grady
    Gary Basaraba
    Reverend Scroggins
    Richard Riehle
    Eva Bates
    Grace Zabriskie
    Buddy Jr
    Grayson Fricke

    Director
    Jon Avnet

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