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Fried Green Tomatoes
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. Written by Flagg and Carol Sobieski, and starring Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker and Cicely Tyson, the film tells the story of a housewife who, unhappy with her life, befriends an elderly lady in a nursing home and is enthralled by the tales she tells of people she used to know.
Plot
Evelyn Couch, a timid housewife in her 40s, meets elderly Ninny Threadgoode at an Alabama nursing home. Evelyn's husband, Ed, has an aunt living there. Over several encounters, Ninny tells Evelyn about the long-abandoned town of Whistle Stop and its residents. The film's subplot concerns Evelyn's dissatisfaction with her marriage, her life, her growing confidence, and a developing friendship with Ninny. The narrative switches several times between Ninny's story set between World War I and World War II, and Evelyn's life in 1980s Birmingham.
More details
| author | Carol Sobieski Fannie Flagg |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Alabama |
| director | Jon Avnet |
| editor | Debra Neil-Fisher |
| events | friendship lesbianism racism |
| genre | comedy-drama mystery |
| keywords | beat condemn kill nursing home older brother river run serve terminal cancer tomboy town folk world war i world war ii |
| musicBy | Thomas Newman |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay |
| producer | Jon Avnet Jordan Kerner |
| productionCompany | Act III Communications Avnet/Kerner Productions Electric Shadow Productions Fried Green Tomatoes Productions |
| publisher | Universal Pictures |
| recordedAt | Alabama Georgia |
| theme | female buddy feminist lgbt-related romantic comedy |