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…
Universal Pictures Act III Productions Avnet/Kerner Productions Electric Shadow Productions Fried Green Tomatoes Productions
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…
the rolled sleeves, the lavender hair, the roses, the swimming in the lake, buddy taking idgie's last name, ruth saying she loved idgie while under oath, this is a damn gay
