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Fried Green Tomatoes
Fried Green Tomatoes
Basic Facts
Fried Green Tomatoes is a movie and a book. The book was
written in 1987, and the movie was made in 1991. It's the story
of a middle-aged woman named Evelyn(Kathy Bates in movie),
who's going through a lot of problems in her life. She is
overweight and depressed. She feels useless, and doesn't fit in
anywhere. She has begun to question her role as a housewife,
but, as the book says, no one cares what Evelyn thinks. She is
still trying to cope with her mother's death and her fear of her
own mortality. She has even contemplated suicide, but is too
afraid to do it.
      One day, on a visit to a nursing home with her
husband, Ed, a well meaning but oblivious guy, she meets
Ninny(Jessica Tandy in movie), and Ninny tells her stories
about Whistle Stop Alabama, which is the town she grew
up and has lived in all her life. She tells Evelyn all about her
family and friends, and through Ninny's stories- particularly
the one's about Idgie (Mary Stuart Masterson) and Ruth
(Mary Louise Parker) who co-ran the Whistle Stop Cafe-
Evelyn gains the strength, courage, and confidence to
regain control of her life and become a more assertive
and self respecting woman. Fried Green Tomatoes is
a story told with warmth, humor, and real affection for the characters.
  A review called it "unabashedly sentimental" and I agree.
It's a nostalgic book, in that it takes place in the past and depicts it in a positive light. But it's not nostalgic too, because it firmly believes that people have the same potential to do good things now as they ever had. I like this book because it covers very serious issues with a sense of humor, and presents many strong opinions without being preachy.
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Updated 5/03/03


  
I also recommend...
If you like "Fried Green Tomatoes" you may also like these movies and books:
Books: To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man, by Fannie Flagg, Losing Battles, by Eudora Welty, Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind, by Ann Ross, Mama Makes Up Her Mind, by Bailey White, My Dog Skip, by Willie Morris, The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, Rubyfruit Jungle, by Rita Mae Brown, Buffalo Girls and Lonesome Dove, By Larry McMurtry, Empire Falls, by Richard Russo, Ava's Man, by Rick Bragg, and At the Lost and Found (Some stories about Ellie and Vin), by Shelley Uva

Movies: Thelma and Louise, Boys on the Side, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, To Kill a Mockingbird, Longtime Companion,  A League of Their Own, Misery, Driving Miss Daisy, Forrest Gump, Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood (also a book) and The Color Purple
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List of Characters (not in order of importance)and, if they were in the movie, who played them.
Idgie Threadgoode-Mary Stuart Masterson/Nancy Moore Atchison      Artis O.Peavey
Ruth Jamison- Mary Louise Parker               Wonderful Counselor (Willie Boy) Peavey
Evelyn Couch- Kathy Bates                                      Jasper Peavey
Ninny Threadgoode-Jessica Tandy                                Onzell
Ed Couch- Gailard Sartain                                         Vesta Adcock
Frank Bennett-Nick Searcy                                      Earl Adcock Sr.
Curtis Smoote-Raynor Scheine                               Earl Adock Jr.      
Smokey Lonesome- Tim Scott                                            Vernon Hadley          
Naughty Bird Peavey-Lashondra Phillips and Enjolik Oree      Duane Kilgore
George Pullman Peavey (Big George)-Stan Shaw                     Dot Weems
Sipsey- Cicely Tyson                                                        Wilbur Weems
Buddy-Chris O'Donnell                                                        Jack Butts
Stump-Grayson Fricke                                                       Pete Tidwell
Leona (Justice)- Afton Smith                                              Albert        
Eva Bates-Grace Zabriskie                                                Jonh Justice
Grady Kilgore-Gary Basaraba                                              Mildred
Peggy Hadley-Genevieve Fisher                                           Patsy Ruth
Momma-Lois Smith                                                          Essie Rue (Limeway)        
Poppa-Danny Nelson                                                            Edward
Geneene-Lashondra Phillips                                           Elmo Inky Williams
Cleo-Drew Wilkins                                                           Chattanooga Red Barker
Rev.Scroggins-Richard Riehle                                          Splinter Belly Phillips
Ocie-Ronald McCall                                                      Boweevil Jake
 Ruth's Mother-Ginny Parker                                          The Kid
Best Lines in the Movie
While I was in the hostpital the doctor gave me one of them Fleet enemas they're so fond of. You ever had one of them Fleet enemas? -Ninny

Who would wanna steal an old lady's home?- Ninny

I'm as settled as I every hope to be- Idgie

God damm to hell that son of a bitch she did it-here's to Ruth!- Idgie

Towanda!- Idgie and Evelyn

What's the point of my tryin if you're just gonna sit on your butt drinkin beer, and watchin baseball (boom), basketball (boom),football(boom) bowling and (boom) hockey, and golf, and Challenge of the Gladiators!(boom)-Evelyn

What I can't understand is how in the hell you could hit someone six times by accident- Ed

Don't let Mr. Dunaway see me, he's liable to go wild- Ninny

Don't say never to me- Ruth

Ruth, there's some bee person here to see you- Ruth's mother.

You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode, that's what you are, a bee charmer- Ruth

I'm not carryin you, you're walkin- Ruth

This doesn't have anything to do with trains, does it?- Ruth

No foolin'?- Idgie

Don't make no kinda sense. Big ole ox like Grady won't sit next to a colored child, but he eats eggs, that shoot right outta a chicken's ass!- Sipsey

From what I hear you boys over in Georgia are a little, light on ya feet- Grady

Best damm barbecue in the state of Alabama- Grady

Secret's in the sauce- Sipsey

You a politician or does lyin' just run in your family?- Idgie
Idgie Threadgoode, one of the four main characters, is based on the author (Fannie Flagg's) Aunt Bess, who also shows up in Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man.
Erma Bombeck, aclaimed humor columnist, called Fried Green Tomatoes "so fun it made me sick I missed the Depression".
Harper Lee, author of "To Kill A Mockingbird", said "Idgie Threadgoode is a true original. Huck Finn would have tried to marry her!"
Eudora Welty encouraged Fannie Flagg to become a writer after reading the story that became "Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man"
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