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Fried Green Tomatoes

7.7/10

Rating

130 min

Runtime

1991

Release Year

Jon Avnet

Director

Cast

Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary-Louise Parker, Mary Stuart Masterson, Cicely Tyson

Quick Synopsis

In Alabama during the 1980s, a middle-aged housewife struggling with her sense of identity befriends a lively elderly woman at a nursing home. The older woman shares the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women living in the 1920s in the small town of Whistle Stop, Alabama, who faced various challenges and developed a deep bond through their experiences of hardship and love.

Detailed Synopsis of Fried Green Tomatoes

Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in 1920s Whistle Stop, Alabama.

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