RELEASED: 1991, Cert. 12 RUNNING TIME: Approx. 132 mins DIRECTOR: Jon Avnet PRODUCERS: Jon Avnet & Jordan Kerner SCREENPLAY: Fannie Flagg & Carol Sobieski MUSIC: Thomas Newman MAIN CAST:- Kathy Bates as Evelyn Couch Jessica Tandy as Ninny Threadgoode Mary-Louise Parker as Ruth Jamison Mary Stuart Masterson as Idgie Threadgoode Gailard Sartain as Ed Couch ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FILM ONLY REVIEW Based on Fannie Flagg's novel of the same name (she also co-wrote the film screenplay), Fried Green Tomatoes At The ...  Read the complete review

Based on the original novel Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistlestop Cafe by Fannie Flagg, first published in 1987 and made into a film directed by John Avnet in 1991 starring Cathy Bates and Jessica Tandy. Main Cast: Evelyn Crouch - Cathy Bates Ninny Threadgoode - Jessica Tandy Idgie Threadgoode - Mary Stuart Masterson Ruth Jamison - Mary louise Parker The Film In Brief: The story is told to us through parallel viewing. Co narratives entwine present day recollections of a time that has passed and flashbacks to the life of a once vibrant town. Set in the fictional town of Whistlestop in the deep south USA. Two women ...  Read the complete review

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