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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Mild Violence, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language Movie Release: 1991 DVD Release: 12/15/1998 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Edition: Special Collection Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 2 hrs 17 mins Studio: Universal Studios Members Wishing: 77 Genres: Comedy Drama, Period Film, Feminist Film See Also: Fried Green Tomatoes [Anniversary Edition], Fried Green Tomatoes [Extended Anniversary Edition] [With Mamma Mia! Picture Frame], Fried Green Tomatoes [Anniversary Edition] [Holiday Packaging], Fried Green Tomatoes [Extended Collector's Edition] [Valentine's Day Packaging]

A woman learns the value of friendship as she hears the story of two women and how their friendship shaped their lives in this warm comedy-drama. Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates) is an emotionally repressed housewife with a habit of drowning her sorrows in candy bars. Her husband Ed (Gailard Sartain) barely acknowledges her existence, and while he visits his aunt at a nursing home every week, Evelyn is not permitted to come into the room because the old women doesn't like her. One week, while waiting out Ed's visit, Evelyn meets Ninny Threadgoode (Jessica Tandy), a frail but feisty old woman who lives at the same nursing home and loves to tell stories. Over the span of several weeks, she spins a whopper about one of her relatives, Idgie (Mary Stuart Masterson). Back in the 1920s, Idgie was a sweet but fiercely independent woman with her own way of doing things who ran the town diner in Whistle Stop, Alabama. Idgie was very close to her brother Buddy (Chris O'Donnell), and when he died, she wouldn't talk to anyone except Buddy's girl, Ruth Jamison (Mary-Louise Parker). Idgie gave Ruth a job at the cafe after she left her abusive husband, Frank Bennett (Nick Searcy). Between her habit of standing up for herself, standing up to Frank, and serving food to Black people out the back of the diner, Idgie raised the ire of the less tolerant citizens of Whistle Stop, and when Frank mysteriously disappeared, many locals suspected that Idgie, Ruth, and their friends may have been responsible. Evelyn finds herself looking forward to her weekly visits with Ninny, and is inspired by her story to take a new pride in herself and assert her independence from Ed. Fried Green Tomatoes was based on the novel -Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by actress-turned-author Fannie Flagg, who makes a cameo appearance as the leader of a self-help group. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Kathy Bates - Evelyn Couch
Jessica Tandy - Ninny Threadgoode
Mary Stuart Masterson - Idgie Threadgoode
Mary-Louise Parker - Ruth Jamison
Cicely Tyson - Sipsey
Nick Searcy - Frank Bennett

Jon Avnet's Fried Green Tomatoes gets a very strong DVD release from Universal Studios. The disc boasts a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. A closed-captioned English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Surround. Spanish and French subtitles are accessible. Supplemental features include a commentary track by the director, an original documentary about the making of the film, production photographs, a look at the posters made for the film, and theatrical trailers. This disc has everything fans of the film could want (short of a commentary track by the actresses). ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide