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.
Kathy Bates Mary-Louise Parker Jessica Tandy Cicely Tyson Mary Stuart Masterson Chris O'Donnell Stan Shaw 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 Show All…
Stekta gröna tomater, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Cafe, Fried Green Tomatoes - EC, Le secret est dans la sauce
This film is so frustrating. It's not just the lesbian erasure or the caricaturization of racism, it's that it the nearness of it to something good. Great, even. Simply dropping those major problems by making the queer subtext explicit or giving depth to the black characters and their stories and showing at least some of the complexities of racism--that is, it's more than good white saviors and Klansmen in this world, that white supremacy is more dangerous than that--would make this film much better, but even then, there are narrative flaws and a fat shaming storyline and a problematic reference to Ninny's neurodivergent son that just makes his invisible presence a prop. And all of those things are unpleasant to…
ladies is it lesbian to make a life together and raise a child with another woman and have every food scene between y'all be major queer subtext??
when i first watched fried green tomatoes at my cousin's house at 11 or 12.. i guess i saw in idgie and ruth something i had never really seen in a film before. i told her and my aunt later about how they were in love, and the two of them got pretty pissed off and said i didn't understand the movie, and i missed the message about the true strength of friendship.
to be fair, i can't blame them for reading the film this way- as i'm certain it was very carefully made to allow them to come to this conclusion. like plenty of outwardly queer literature in the past (read: the color purple), fanny flagg's explicitly romantic novel…
Could have been gayer. Also anyone else picture Carol and Abby running their furniture shop, a bit like the cafe
There are films where two people fall in love and their romance makes up the story, but the connection between them doesn't make an impact. And then there are those films where the connection between two people is so strong that it doesn't need to be declared or manifest into anything physical. Fried Green Tomatoes is the latter.
I want what Idgie has.
This film was too confusing for me, I’m pretty sure it’s lack of braincells from my part but my brain was just like ????? all through the movie. Also in disbelief at some moments ahahshs
i watched this for the first when i was 10 or 11 i think and i remember loving so much that i was scared to watch it again because i didn’t wanna be let down. but it definitely did not disappoint! it’s just as witty and cute as i remember it being, and i got a lot more out of it than i did with my first watch! while there are some very problematic elements to this story that should not be overlooked (which i am most definitely not qualified to unpack), this was overall a very enjoyable experience for me :)
Ruth and Idgie where really good friends according to thus story but according to my gaydar they where lesbians.
This film is really gay but at the same it isn't. Director decission I guess, but it could have been more gay and less "for the friendship
Thought the modern day scenes with Kathy Bates were pretty good, but the period scenes just drag on and on, and they’re most of the movie.
A cherished film that is always welcome when on the air television or planned viewing and demands to be seen in one sitting. Top tier acting, story, direction, and cinematography. A true test of a movie is its ability to demand your attention. Tremendously powerful emotions and human struggle challenged in this movie and is a must see. Give it a go again or see it for the first time and you may find it exceeds expectations and with become a top ten movie on your list.
The script plods. Tandy looks as though she'd rather be elsewhere. The desire is understandable.
its a movie about lesbians, where we all know theyre lesbians, but the writers wont admit it. its like when ur little sisters 8 year old friend really likes Santana in glee. You know whats coming, but shes so clueless. love this movie.
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