fishy246 This is truly a good field they film that you were fall in love and you will not be disappointed I love that the characters I love everything about this movie I also love the relationship between the two women that shows what friendship is about and I love that the story has a really sweet story.

lurch99-198-323833 Well having now finally seen this, I have to say this isn't the type of movie I'd been imagining over the last 25 years or so; I'd thought it would be some Southern "romantic comedy" with the four leading ladies all in the same household at the same time having various heart-warming hi-jinks; instead it's these two parallel (fairly "serious") stories about 50 years apart. I guess the earlier story was the more personally compelling for me, since it was the one with the luminous Mary-Louise Parker, whom I've been watching in "Weeds" on my cable service and it was fascinating to see this younger version of her doing her native accent (she's from South Carolina). It's fascinating how she mixes passivity with latent ferocity, like an angel carrying a switchblade knife or something. When she casually threatens to kill her abusive husband without raising her soft voice but with a little demented gleam appearing in her eyes, it's scary. It's been said "Acting is reacting," and I don't know a better reactor. She also benefits from a much "fuller" story situation, with all the other characters (I didn't even recognize old Cicely Tyson) and sobering subplots involving the KKK and domestic abuse and a murder trial (although even this veers towards camp) etc. (I've never been a fan of Mary Stuart Masterson, but she seems well cast here.) I did think that Ruth's getting sick and dying felt "rushed" ---"Wait, she has cancer? When did that happen?" ---but the actual death scene with the single camera shot was maybe the best thing in the movie. (That's what happens when people die of "natural causes," it's usually not "dramatic," they just slip away.) The "modern" story, by contrast, was mostly between Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy, who STILL had time to do four more movies after this before finally dying. (I saw her in "Dragonwyck" from 1946 but I forget what she looked like young. I'll have to catch her in something else.) The modern story felt more by-the-numbers, but the amazing Kathy Bates (who completely stole the most recent season of "American Horror Story") can bring even the tritest part (in this case the meek housewife getting "uppity") to life; she and Tandy have some great exchanges about vaginas and hormones. I was a little annoyed at the "mysterious" ending, with the suggestion that Tandy's character was possibly the older version of the Masterson character; it reminds me of a line from "Detective Story" from 1950: "Twelve years ago I threw my radio out the window; you know why? 'Cause I hate mysteries!" But at least Tandy didn't turn out to be a goddamned ghost or something—or so I'm presuming…..Anyway I'm glad I finally got to see it; my only regret is that Ruth's scumbag husband didn't suffer more when he died. Don't even get me started on the topic of abusive males, it just drives me absolutely bat-crap, reflects badly on all us male types… By the way there's a certain plot point that seems borrowed both from "Soylent Green" and "Sweeney Todd," not to mention the "Texas Chainsaw" series, and they all leave me wondering: So how were the inedible bits disposed of?

bbewnylorac Sure it's a tiny bit corny, but Fried Green Tomatoes is a gem of a movie. It's amazing, in the era of beautiful people and fast paced stories, that it got made at all, but I guess it helped that its stars Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy had both recently won Oscars for other movies. This film doesn't insult its audience. I like how it tells the tale in a roundabout way through the miserable, modern day housewife (Bates) befriending a sparky elderly woman (Tandy) she meets while visiting another resident at a nursing home. It turns out the elderly lady played merely a bit part and was a young girl, an observer, in the real life juicy tale she starts to tell about rural southern life in the old days, but it tells us a lot about the close ties of a large family and friends in a more innocent time. And she's a great story teller, and Bates's character is taken out of her depression and gains a good friend who suggests ways she can get out more and get over her problems. A simple tale, but a lovely one, with lots of wicked humour and a touch of the macabre.

bcheng93 first off before i begin i just want to clarify something...i kept on getting the feeling that Ninny was actually Idgie while watching the movie and i know that a lot of fans of this movie were wondering the same thing. to clarify that up, in the book Ninny and Idgie are actually sister-in-laws and the movie never really says anything about that and kept a lot of people wondering if they didn't actually read the book. i never wanted to watch this movie even though i knew that this was a great movie...i thought it was too " chick flicky ??? ". well, i finally got to watch this movie and what a treasure i found! i got to watch the extended blu-ray edition, no less! if you're watching this movie for the first time like me, i recommend for guys and girls to get some tissue ready. now i'm not saying that you're going to need it...but for me personally and i don't really shed tears at movies, my eyes got moist about fifteen minutes into the movie and that has never happened before...and i've watched a gazillion movies.ultimately this movie is about the power of friendship and love and how that can overcome just about anything that you can throw at it. the story starts off in contemporary times and the first friendship starts there, between Ninny and Evelyn who is stuck in a suffocating marriage...from there we flash back and forth in time and we get to the other story of friendship and love between two women. sounds like a chick flick?...well don't worry you guys out there, stick with it and in there is the reward.i'm surprised that no one won an Oscar for acting in this movie, you had 3 strong best supporting actress awards in Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy and Cicely Tyson. then either Mary Masterson or Mary Parker could and should have won an Oscar for best actress. its a shame really that this movie isn't more recognized and is solely known to be a good chick flick.this movie goes into my top 100 movies easily and will now be watched many more times over the coming years. an absolute American treasure and it gets me mad when people bash it. i've looked around and it seems women are the ones who are bashing this movie. they must be some fu*ked- up people. it's sad and i guess they've never loved or lost that deeply...oh well, i guess they're automatons with no emotion.people who've never watched this movie before, if you are a fan of movies and good ones in particular, please watch this movie, its an American masterpiece well deserving its place in great American cinematography and i believe its an all-time classic already. we should all have some fried green tomatoes...