Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

I was so naive when seeing it. Never realized the lesbian aspect. I liked it though.

Anyone else think fried green tomatoes sound disgusting?

I loved this movie when it first came out (no pun intended.) it got me through some tough times.

Towanda!!!

Chris O'Donnell is such a boring uninteresting actor it's hard to believe he was the best available for so many sought-after roles.

That film was the first and last time Mary-Louise Parker played a character who was more than just an angle of herself.

Was Mary Stuart Masteron's career derailed by her five hundred marriages or did she just get shelved for aging out of her type? How do you age out of "tom-boy", anyway?

Kathy Bates is very good in this.

Was a young version of Jessica Tandy’s character in the movie? I could never figure out who told her all that stuff.

Another thread for the movie

r8, no and you sound stupid.

Lez Be Friends

Kathy, Mary Stuart and Mary Louise in front of a fried green tomato!

R2 Than you don't WANT to know what's in the secret sauce. 🥡🔪🥄

So is the Jessica Tandy character actually Idgie as an old woman?

r14 = abject moron

I had no idea the film had any gay content when I went to the theater when the film came out. Not sure if I'd missed all the reviews or was it kept more or less a secret. I'm not that much into lesbian films but I really liked this one a lot. I think I've seen the film only maybe once on TV after the cinema, and that was like over 20 years ago but the feeling of it is still rather fresh in my mind. An excellent film. It warms your heart.

Ninny and Idgie are the same person in the movie. The last scene with the honey indicates that.

Its gross though.

Ninny can't be Idgie because she tells Kathy Bates she married Idgie's brother and had a kid with him. Though the kid was severely brain damaged so maybe...

Exactly, r18. It’s gross.

r17, Wrong.

I remember when this came out. My grandmother and her friends all missed the lesbian angle, and they also all thought Jessica Tandy was Idgie. They didn't listen to Tandy's opening scene where she clearly states she married Idgie's brother.

Seemed like Oscar baiting at the time

Gay publications criticized it at the time for sublimating the lesbian aspects of the book. Much as they did when The Color Purple came out, r16.

The performances from all 4 actresses were excellent

"Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance."

“It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.”

“Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?”

“What was this power, this insidious threat, this invisible gun to her head that controlled her life . . . this terror of being called names? She had stayed a virgin so she wouldn't be called a tramp or a slut; had married so she wouldn't be called an old maid; faked orgasms so she wouldn't be called frigid; had children so she wouldn't be called barren; had not been a feminist because she didn't want to be called queer and a man hater; never nagged or raised her voice so she wouldn't be called a bitch . . . She had done all that and yet, still, this stranger had dragged her into the gutter with the names that men call women when they are angry.”

R2 FGT are delicious! Seriously, dipped in ranch or blue cheese dressing!

Just for those who didn't know a "whistle stop" station is (or was) one were trains only stopped if signaled (flag, whistle or whatever) to do so. These likely were stations in rural areas, very small towns or otherwise places that didn't warrant a full time station of any sort.

These not scheduled stops were usually brief (just enough time to get passengers off/on train, and or mail, cargo, etc...), because train still had to remain on time.

Always had a soft spot for FGT because it was of few films about South of pre-WWII times where blacks "won" if you could see it that way.

As was clearly stated in film Sipsey and Big George could (and would likely) have been swinging from nearest tree for their crime, proven guilty or not.