Fried Green Tomatoes

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

Fried Green Tomatoes is a warm adaptation of Fannie Flagg's popular women's novel that does equal justice to its two featured time periods, while offering useful messages about friendship and standing up for oneself. However, it does teeter on the edge of man-hating and the related exaggerations now and again. How else to explain that sympathetic Ruth Jamison (Mary Louise-Parker) gets romantically entwined with a man so loathsome that not only does he beat her, but he's also a member of the Ku ...more