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Rating: 4 stars

All movies seen on 03/11/2012

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Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

Directed by Jon Avnet

Comedy | Drama

Overview

Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the 1920s.

Rated PG-13 | Length 130 minutes

Actors

Kathy Bates | Jessica Tandy | Mary-Louise Parker | Mary Stuart Masterson | Cicely Tyson | Stan Shaw | Chris O'Donnell | Gailard Sartain | Timothy Scott | Gary Basaraba | Lois Smith | Jo Harvey Allen | Fannie Flagg | Suzi Bass | Tom Even | Afton Smith | Haynes Brooke | Wallace Merck | Richard Riehle | Constance Shulman | Nick Searcy | Macon McCalman | Raynor Scheine | Grace Zabriskie | Reid Binion | Danny Nelson | Nancy Moore Atchison | Ginny Parker | Tres Holton | Ron McCall | David Dwyer | Lashondra Phillips | Kathy Larson | Missy Wolff | LaTanya Richardson Jackson | Grayson Fricke | Enjolik Oree | Genevieve Fisher | Bob Hannah | Ted Manson | Carol Mitchell-leon | Evan Lockwood

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

I hadn’t seen this Oscar winner since it came out, but I remembered liking it as a kid; I didn’t remember much about it.

The movie reminds me much of FORREST GUMP in the structure and playing on memories and such. And, it works well. If predictable most of the way, it’s still touching, funny, and acted superbly with a great cast. And, even if they didn’t include the full-blow lesbian relationship from Fannie Flagg’s novel, it’s nice that the writers at least hinted at it; I never picked that up as a kid.

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