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Fried Green Tomatoes – Edited

Academy Award winners Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy star with Mary Stuart Masterson and Mary-Louise Parker in this comic, heartwarming tale of family, friendship and murder in rural Georgia. In a Southern nursing home, a feisty resident and old local fixture named Ninny Threadgoode (Tandy) befriends Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates) a depressed housewife and stirs her to action with an inspirational tale. She tells the story of a transcendent friendship between two young women living in Georgia in the 1930s, Idgie Threadgoode (Mary Stuart Masterson) and Ruth (Mary Louise Parker), who forge a powerful bond after witnessing a terrible tragedy together. The two women open a café (where fried green tomatoes are a house specialty) together in their small Southern town of Whistle Stop and manage to survive the hardships of life, despite racism, prejudice and the pressures of trying to live their lives as individuals in a strict and close-minded Southern society. Their friendship lasts through many ups and downs over the years, helping one of the women through an abusive marriage, and buoying both of them through the gossip and jealousy of those small-minded people who try to control their lives. Based on Fannie Flagg's best-selling novel FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLE STOP CAFÉ.
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Dove Review

I first watched this movie when I was about thirteen years old and it still makes me cry to this day. There are basically two stories intertwined in this movie. One is a middle aged depressed housewife who finds solace in an older woman’s company instead of her dense and insensitive husband and eventually regains her womanhood and emerges as a new woman. The other is a story of Idgie Threadgood and her best friend, Ruth, who grow up in the south with all of the hardships they had to face. There are some serious topics like death, being secure with yourself, and how to not put up with anyone’s nonsense. It is simply a woman’s empowerment movie, and it’s good for everyone to watch.

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There is an abusive relationship, violence against African Americans, and stylized fight scenes, but these situations are only implied in the edited version, nothing graphic shown

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All offensive language has been edited out

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There is an abusive relationship, violence against African Americans, and stylized fight scenes, but these situations are only implied in the edited version, nothing graphic shown

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