Fried Green Tomatoes

Fried Green Tomatoes is a 1991 comedydrama film based on the novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg. Directed by Jon Avnet and written by Flagg and Carol Sobieski, it stars Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, and MaryLouise Parker. It tells the story of a Depressionera friendship between two women, Ruth and Idgie, and a 1980s friendship between Evelyn, a middleaged housewife, and Ninny, an elderly woman who knew Ruth and Idgie. The centerpiece and parallel story concerns the murder of Ruths abusive husband, Frank, and the accusations that follow. It received a generally positive reception from film critics and was nominated for two Academy Awards.

Ninnys story begins with tomboy Idgie Threadgoode Masterson, the youngest of the Threadgoode children, whom Ninny describes as her sisterinlaw. Her close relationship with her charming older brother, Buddy ODonnell, is cut short when he is hit by a train and killed. Devastated, she recedes from formal society for much of her childhood and adolescence until Buddys former girlfriend, the straitlaced Ruth Jamison Parker, intervenes at the request of the concerned Threadgoode family.Idgie initially resists Ruths attempts at friendship, but then gradually allows a deep attachment to develop. Ruth leaves Whistle Stop to marry Frank Bennett Searcy and moves to Valdosta, Georgia. Idgie is upset at losing her and struggles to forget her. After some time she visits her, now pregnant and suffering from physical abuse from Frank. Against his wishes, she returns to Whistle Stop with Idgie, where her baby, who she names Buddy Jr., is born. Papa Threadgoode gives Idgie money to start a business so she can care for Ruth and Buddy Jr.. She and Ruth open the Whistle Stop Cafe, employing the family cook, Sipsey Tyson, and her son, Big George Shaw, who makes a barbecue that quickly becomes popular with their patrons. ........

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