![]() ![]() “Funny and macabre. “This whole literary enterprise shines with honesty, gallantry, and love of perfect details that might otherwise be forgotten.” - Los Angeles Times ![]() “Happily for us, Fannie Flagg has preserved in a richly comic, poignant narrative that records the exuberance of their lives, the sadness of their departure.” -Harper Lee “A real novel and a good one the busy brain of a born storyteller.” - The New York Times Praise for Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Ninnys most engaging tales involved the exploits of her free-spirited sister-in-law Idgie (Mary Stuart Masterson), who owned a. Ninny Threadgoode (Jessica Tandy) keeping Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates) entertained with stories of her colorful past. And as the past unfolds, the present will never be quite the same again. Based on Fannie Flaggs classic novel, the movie tells the intertwined stories of two friendships. Her tale includes two more women-the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth-who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, offering good coffee, southern barbecue, and all kinds of love and laughter-even an occasional murder. Threadgoode, who’s telling her life story. Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-classic novel about two women: Evelyn, who’s in the sad slump of middle age, and gray-headed Mrs. ![]()
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