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Fried Green Tomatoes (Blu-ray)
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 17 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 6, 2006
- Originally Released: 1991
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jessica Tandy, Kathy Bates, Mary Stuart Masterson & Mary-Louise Parker | |
Performer: | Cicely Tyson, Stan Shaw, Chris O'Donnell, Gailard Sartain & Nick Searcy | |
Directed by | Jon Avnet | |
Screenwriting by | Fannie Flagg & Carol Sobieski | |
Composition by | Thomas Newman | |
Produced by | Jon Avnet, Jordan Kerner & Anne Marie Gillen | |
Director of Photography: | Geoffrey Simpson | |
Executive Production by | Norman Lear, Andrew Meyer & Tom Taylor |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
Fried Green Tomatoes is gosh-darned lovable, even if it does get downright sugary at times.
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Tulsa World
Rating: 3/5 --
It's a nice, pleasant celebration of friendship, but without much meat to chew on.
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Empire Magazine
...Handsomely mounted, engagingly performed...[and] wrapped around with an ingratiating score by Thomas Newman...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 3/5 --
Directed and co-written by first-timer Jon Avnet, the episodic production manages to capture the fried-tomato flavor of the deep South without becoming too pushy or patronizing about it.
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Orlando Sentinel
Rating: 2.5/4 --
When a group of actors this gifted and lively tries so good-naturedly to deliver such an obvious message, the audience is left in the position of trying to stop a tidal wave. You may hate yourself for responding, but you're smothered before you know it.
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Seattle Times
Rating: 2/4 --
The movie never quite shakes its stiff, studied feel, just as the town of Whistle Stop never stops seeming the quaint creation of an art director.
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Chicago Tribune
...Jessica Tandy is glorious...
Rolling Stone
Product Description:
Academy Award winners Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy star with Mary Stuart Masterson and Mary-Louise Parker in this comic, heartwarming tale of family, friendship and murder in rural Georgia. In a Southern nursing home, a feisty resident and old local fixture named Ninny Threadgoode (Tandy) befriends Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates) a depressed housewife and stirs her to action with an inspirational tale. She tells the story of a transcendent friendship between two young women living in Georgia in the 1930s, Idgie Threadgoode (Mary Stuart Masterson) and Ruth (Mary Louise Parker), who forge a powerful bond after witnessing a terrible tragedy together. The two women open a cafe (where fried green tomatoes are a house specialty) together in their small Southern town of Whistle Stop and manage to survive the hardships of life, despite racism, prejudice and the pressures of trying to live their lives as individuals in a strict and close-minded Southern society. Their friendship lasts through many ups and downs over the years, helping one of the women through an abusive marriage, and buoying both of them through the gossip and jealousy of those small-minded people who try to control their lives. Based on Fannie Flagg's best-selling novel FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLE STOP CAFE.
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- Sales Rank: 7,909
- UPC: 025192508127
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