Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe (DVD)

Evelyn Couch, an unhappy married woman, meets Ninny Threadgoode in a nursing home, where Evelyn is visiting her husband's mother, and Ninny is an incumbent. Ninny starts to tell her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and her close friend, Ruth Jamison and before long, Evelyn is hooked, itching to hear the next installment in the story. Idgie and Ruth set up the Whistlestop Cafe after Ruth escaped from her violent husband, and they brought up Ruth's son together. However, their lives were never without excitement and trauma. Fast forward to modern day, and Evelyn is struggling with her marriage and worrying about her increasing age. Can Ninny help her come to terms with her ...  Read the complete review

"Fried Green tomatoes at the Whistlestop cafè" is one of my favourite films. It is one of those I can see again, and again and again. It is a quite long film, but it also deals with quite many sides of life. It is telling two stories at the same time, and what connect them together is an old lady on a retirement home telling her story to a middleaged woman.. who is dealing with her own problems. Evenly Couch (Kathy Bates) is the middleaged woman, struggling to be recognised. Her husband care more about sports, and even the classes Evelyn is taking in order to help their marriage does not turn out to be any helpful. When she goes with ...  Read the complete review

Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates) is an unhappy housewife, whose reached middle-age and feels that her life is going nowhere. It doesn't help that her husband Ed (Gailard Sartain) continually ignores her and his convalescing aunt can't stand her, to the point of throwing objects at her when ever she goes to visit. It is on one of these visits that a chance meeting with a sprightly old lady, Ninny Threadgoode (Jessica Tandy) leads to a surprising friendship. Ninny tales Evelyn a fascinating tale about two women who lived more than 50 years ago, in a little town called Whistle Stop, somewhere in Alabama. There was Idgie (Mary Stuart Masterson) a wild tomboy with a ...  Read the complete review

Fried Green Tomatoes is directed by Jon Avnet and stars Kathy Bates as Evelyn Couch, a middle-aged woman who is having marriage troubles and attending group therapy (without her husband). One day, the couple drive up to a residential home to visit his aunt, who for some reason doesn't want them there. While she waits for her husband to finish speaking to the nurses, she strikes up a conversation with an old lady, Ninny, who proceeds to tell Evelyn the story of the Whistle Stop Cafe, and that of the people who worked there, Idgie (Mary Stuart Masterson), a tomboy with a heart of gold, Ruth, Big George and Sipsie and of a scandal that took place there. On the ...  Read the complete review

There are loads of movies in the world that tell stories about the friendship between men, but rarely do you see films about female friendship. However Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is an exception to this rule. The film is based on the book with the same title, and directed by John Avnet, who is an American director, writer as well as producer. The movie is his directorial debut and released in 1991. The main storyline of the film is the friendship between two pairs of women, then and now. Idgie and Ruth are the first pair of women. They came from a little town called Whistle Stop in the American Deep South in the 1930s. ...  Read the complete review