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Fried Green Tomatoes is a 1991 American comedy-drama film directed by Jon Avnet and based on Fannie Flagg's 1987 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.
Jan 24, 1992 · Fried Green Tomatoes: Directed by Jon Avnet. With Kathy Bates, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, Jessica Tandy. Evelyn, an ordinary housewife, visits a nursing home and befriends the old lady Ninny.
Jan 27, 2024 · As a result, Evelyn ends up hanging awkwardly within the establishment, catching 82-year-old Ninny’s eye. Ninny is a talkative woman who instantly takes a liking to Evelyn and begins telling her a story about people she knew in the 1920s.
On one of trapped housewife Evelyn Couch's (Kathy Bates) Wednesday nursing home visits, she encounters Ninny Threadgoode (Jessica Tandy), a colorful old woman who brightens Evelyn's outlook...
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Fried Green Tomatoes. Evelyn Couch is having trouble in her marriage, and no one seems to take her seriously. While in a nursing home visiting relatives, she meets Ninny Threadgoode, an outgoing old woman, who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode, a young woman in 1920's Alabama.
During one of middle-aged housewife Evelyn Couch's (Bates) Wednesday nursing home visits, she encounters Ninny Threadgoode (Tandy, in an Oscar-nominated performance), a colourful old woman who brightens Evelyn's outlook by sharing tales from her past, giving her the confidence to change her own life for the better.
Jan 10, 1992 · The two women set up in business together as the Whistle Stop Cafe (breaded fried green tomatoes a specialty), with the help of Big George ( Stan Shaw ), a black man whose mother Sipsey ( Cicely Tyson) raised Idgie.
