Fried Green Tomatoes

Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

  • 83% of critics liked it
    (23 reviews)

  • 88% of users liked it
    (118,507 ratings)

A woman learns the value of friendship as she hears the story of two women and how their friendship shaped their lives in this warm comedy-drama. Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates) is an emotionally repressed housewife with a habit of drowning her sorrows in candy bars. Her husband Ed (Gailard Sartain)… More

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PG-13,
Directed By
Written By
Fannie Flagg, Carol Sobieski
Genres
Drama, Comedy
In Theaters
Dec 27, 1991 Wide
On DVD
Apr 18, 2000
Universal Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Heather Boerner, Common Sense Media

    Stirring, sizzling serving of female empowerment.

  • Cole Smithey, ColeSmithey.com

    Please no.

  • Chuck O'Leary, FulvueDrive-in.com

    An immensely likable, wonderfully-performed film.

  • Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central

    The picture is about gender politics and a legacy of communal repression that is itself too embarrassed to port over a nearly-platonic-anyway love story between two women.

  • Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

    An enjoyable if sentimental chic flick that sanitizes Flagg's novel in two major respects, glossing over the lesbian relationship between Mary Louise Parker and Mary Stuart Masterson and underplaying the blatant racism in the trail of a black man.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Candy R


    Excellent movie about friendship and love. Kathy Bates' character befriends an old woman who tells stories of her past.

  • Jason O


    Always love a good southern movie, and well done coming of age drama

  • Cassie H


    A bittersweet story about how the Whistle Stop Cafe brought together Idgie Threadgoode, Ruth Jamison & many others & a story to be told by Ninny Threadgoode to a southern woman, Evelyn Couch.

  • Spencer S


    Another tale of the Southern woman, so spicy and headstrong that she ends up in multiple adventures including murder, love affairs, and the ultimate threat of betrayal between best friends. Friendship, the cornerstone to this feel good film, is the building block that parallels… More

  • Alexis N


    Full of southern charm and heart. A movie about friendship and how it shapes our lives. It's a classic and so good, but the director's cut is a little long.

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