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Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

★ 7.7 · 1,462 ratings on TMDB

The secret of life? The secret's in the sauce.

Fried Green Tomatoes poster★ 7.7

Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in 1920s Whistle Stop, Alabama.

DirectorJon Avnet
CastChris O'Donnell, Cicely Tyson, Gailard Sartain, Gary Basaraba, Jessica Tandy, Kathy Bates
GenresComedy, Drama
The emergence reading

Fried Green Tomatoes keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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