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Synopsis

A housewife who is unhappy with her life befriends an old lady in a nursing home and is enthralled by the tales she tells of people she used to know.

Cast

  • Kathy Bates
  • Jessica Tandy
  • Mary Stuart Masterson
  • Mary-Louise Parker
  • Nick Searcy
  • Gailard Sartain
  • Stan Shaw
  • Cicely Tyson
  • Gary Basaraba
  • Tim Scott

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A fabulous movie...well acted...heart-rending...funny...exciting...a real bee charmer!!!

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One of the best ever made!

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Metacritic

75

Fried Green Tomatoes is fairly predictable, and the flashback structure is a distraction, but the strength of the performances overcomes the problems of the structure. I especially liked Mary Stuart Masterson's work, but then I nearly always do (see her in Some Kind of Wonderful). And I enjoyed the vigor with which Jessica Tandy told her long-ago tale, about a woman not completely unlike herself.

Metacritic review by Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
70

Based on a novel by Fannie Flagg, the comedian, and directed by Jon Avnet, Fried Green Tomatoes has some good performances and a measure of homespun appeal, some of which can be credited to Elizabeth McBride's gently evocative costumes and Barbara Ling's detailed production design.

Metacritic review by Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin
The New York Times