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Summary: Southern Fried Divine Story
Review: This movie is just too exquiste to be described. A touching, funny, endearing, thought-provoking story of the friendship between two women, the original feminist and her struggle to a man's world, and the friendship and trust between a black man and a white woman. There is a lot going on in this film and it's all important. We are engaged in the characters from the opening scene; we laugh with them; we cry with them. Well worth watching more than once.
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Summary: awesome
Review: I luv friend green tamatos!!!! My favorte movie is Anne Of Green Gables, but now i dunno which one is my favorite!!! I luv umm both!!!! It's a great show 4 kids to see what it was like growing up back then, and how some ppl acted! I will let my kids watch this video over and over! I'm a mother of 4 and they love this one!
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Summary: A nice movie......but...
Review: Well written and well acted this is a compelling story that runs a wide range of emotions. Actually it is two stories; the current story of a women in mid life crisis and the story of the 1930s restaurnt and the people involved in it. So what you get are flashbacks that actually make up half the movie. As the show progresses each story fuses together in many ways. This is also a classic good vs evil yarn in which good does triumph but not all the time. Like all good movies it will make you think a little more about life; past and the shape of the present. Now the negative stuff. Frankly i'm quite amazed that nobody seems to notice this or to have a problem with it. This is the ultimate politically correct movie. All PC issues are right there front and center. Feminism, race, lesbianism. Obviously that is at the core of the message. Despite all this nice textured story line is this rather simpleton, superfical message. White men are stupid and evil and one actually eats human flesh and likes it. All the women in the film are heroic as are the black men. When a young women dies it is a black women who stays by her side. No men in sight. The evil klan makes an appearence and the young women's husband beat her and had the klan steal the baby. Also at her side is her life long friend and business partner who has been romantically in love with her for a long time. White males are mean to blacks. White males beat and steal from women. White males steal children, kathey bates character has a husband who is lazy and uncaring etc. You get the idea. The handling of race in the movie goes is almost condescending as if to tell the viewer that blacks are people too. Gee thanks. Great story but too agenda driven and too condescending for 1990s america. .................socks
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Summary: A Beautiful Film
Review: There's really nothing not to like here. Everything comes together like a Renoir painting. It's a gentle, beautiful film about friendship and how relationships can help us grow as human beings. It's lovely to look at. The sequences from 1930's Alabama are lush and rich in lighting, color and costume (outstanding cinematography by Geoffrey Simpson). Fanny Flagg's and Carol Sobieski's script is moving as the characters lack Southern rural stereotypes and are displayed as individuals and real people. As expected, excellent performances from Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson and Mary-Louise Parker. Anyone of them could have walked away with an Oscar. To Ms. Parker's credit, her performance here could have catapulted her to vast commercial success, yet she followed her muse and heart via the theater instead. Although the various stories and themes are interesting, funny, nostalgic and sometimes tragic, the film is driven more by the characters and how the Evelyn/Ninny relationship (Bates/Tandy) parallels Ruth/Idgie (Parker/Masterson). It never bores as the characters and settings are so richly portrayed. Director Jon Avnet, his cast and crew are to be congratulated. Fried Green Tomatoes is truly a work of art, one of the best films of the 1990's.
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Summary: Now that lake's somewhere over in Georgia
Review: This is such a onderful movie. Based on the award winning novel by Fannie Flagg, this movie is about a troubled woman Evelyn Couch, who makes friends with a lady in a local nursing home, and listens to stories about her family. Many of which are shown in the film. Some parts are funny like when Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates) rear-ends the Volkswagen six times. Some parts are sad like when Buddy gets hit by a train. Some are even scary like when the KKK arrives and takes Ruth's baby. But I really get a big laugh out of the joke about the lake being carried over to Georgia.
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Summary: Hey I'm a guy and I loved it!
Review: My wife decided that I needed a little joy in my life and strongly suggested that I watch this movie with her. Of course, I had heard that this was a "chick flick," and expected to be bored silly. I was so wrong! This is a great movie, loaded with laughter, love and bittersweet moments that will leave you at the same time with tears of joy and sadness. The two Marys, Stewart and Louise-Parker, are just outstanding. It is clear that they didn't have to work at acting their affection for each other. These two make magic happen before your eyes. Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy are absolute delights, and the supporting cast couldn't do a better job of just that. In conclusion........Do you think I liked this flick? YOU BET! C'mon guys, give it a try, or better yet give it to the love of your life and she'll love you for it! Highly recommended!
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Summary: gripping exhilaration
Review: fried green tomatoes is my personal favorit of all time. i remember seeing it listed in my sky viewing guide and thinking i aint watching that [woman]but one day i was just flicking through the channels and it was on. within a few minutes of viewing it i could not switch it off. the plot is a corker and idgy is my favorit character and what a character she is. she certainly isnt an oppressive character to say the least. its a real strong story about how wonderful true friendship really is and the kitchen food fight at the cafe is hilarious. this film will make you laugh, wish and cry.
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Summary: ONE VISIT TO WHISTLE STOP NOT ENOUGH!
Review: Based on the novel by Fannie Flagg, "Fried Green Tomatoes" follows the exploits of Iggie Threadgoode, a tomboy who, after the loss of her beloved brother, endears herself to an upright young woman. In between their relationship the issues of racial tension, spousal abuse and murder are dealt with, maturely and honestly. This is the sort of film often disparagingly refered to as a woman's picture, but so full of charm, grace, intelligence and poignant performances that one could easily be a guy and cry by the end of the final fade out.
Universal Studios has done an exceptional job on this DVD. You not only get the extended director's cut of the film but a keen documentary and a host of other intelligent special features that, for once, do not satisfy simply superficial demands for "made-up" extras.
The print used to remaster the film has been well preserved and is beautifully represented. There is some minor pixelization, edge enhancement, shimmering details and faint (I mean faint) aliasing problems but nothing that will rob you from experiencing this movie with the greatest of emotional depth. If you have never seen this movie, it is on my top ten list of American films I think every living person should be required to see. Another is "The Shawshank Redemption". Enjoy!
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Summary: WHO DID NOT LOVE THIS MOVIE
Review: fried green tomatoes is absolutly without a shadow of doubt the BEST movie ever made. every line in this movie is memorable. wether it be humorous "did you know they took my gallbadder out!" ninny says like any old woman who nobody talks to. thats the first thing she ever says to evilyn couch. to "mama always said there was a seperate god for children"... or even the much shorter and repeated "tawanda".. this movie is not to be missed. and you will NEVER forget it. its a movie for everyone. (except maybe a clansman ) this movie is beautiful,tear jerking, witty, inteligent, and downright funny. wether your a rebellious teenager or a 67 year old woman or man, i dont care who you are, this movie is for you.. for any mood your in its the right mood to watch friend green tomatoes... i guarentee you will love it... though of course if your the mother of a small child you might wanna hold your hands over your kids ears during the trial scene where idgie starts off saying "thats right you ...". its the story of 3 people. as its shown directly its of 4 but its known that idgie is actually ms ninny threadgood though evilyn begins to realise it ninny never offers to say it either.. but its the story of an overweight housewife with a low self esteem and how hearing a old woman from a nursing homes story about the life of 2 young rebels from alabama. its not a depressing movie. its too funny to be though it is sad from start to finish but they have a humor about things that makes you laugh reguardless... you go through murer trials with them, wife beatings, poker games, getting drunk at the local honkey tonk, playing baseball drunk on whiskey, train hopping, and just about everything imaginable as well as a love between two best friends...
it starts out with idgie as a little girl and her brother buddy, though buddy is only in the movie for one or 2 quick scenes, he is a strong character in the movie because it is about what came after his death and how he was idgies mentor, brother, and basically she becomes a female buddy as she grows up, also taking on his biggest trait, she became a compulsive liar... she hated ruth because ruth was buddy's love and idgie wanted buddy all to herself and it takes almost a decade for her to even talk to her but what unfolds is a story of love and friendship that cant be broken.
if you havent seen this movie you need to... its worth whatever you have to pay for it.. -Lacy Thomas
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Summary: A movie rich in color and character
Review: One of the most compelling things about Fried Green Tomatoes has to be the richness of the characters, each one with a definite and fascinating personality which shines through in this fantastic production.Jessica Tandy, as usual, gives a sterling performance as the wise old lady who befriends overweight housewife Evelyn (the wonderful Kathy Bates) and, through the story of two young girls Idgie and Ruth, inspires Evelyn to make sometimes drastic changes in her own life. The story is told on many levels: there's the actual story of the relationship between Evelyn and Ninny (Tandy) in the present day together with Evelyn's impact on those around her as her personality steadily changes; then there's the flashbacks to the story of Idgie and Ruth set against the backdrop of the usual social turmoil of the American South. Above all, the story is one of friendship and the wonderful richness that friends add to one's life. A touching and extremely watchable movie.
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