Fried Green Tomatoes
Director: Jon Avnet Cast: Thomas Newman , Kathy Bates , Jessica Tandy , Mary Stuart Masterson , Mary-Louise Parker , Cicely Tyson
DVD
(Wide Screen)
$12.99
- Release Date: 02/06/2007
- UPC: 0025192024429
- Original Release: 1991
- Rating: NR
- Source: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS
- Region Code: 1
- Presentation: [Wide Screen]
- Sound: [Dolby Digital Surround]
- Language: English
- Runtime: 8220
- Sales rank: 8,503
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Bonus Materials
MOMENTS OF DISCOVERY: The Making of Fried Green Tomatoes
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Moments of Discovery
A Story that we Love
Evelyn and Ninny
Idgie and Ruth
Fried Green Tomatoes
Finding Whistlestop
Food in the South
Food Fight
Music is the Soul
Ruth's Death
Heat, Bugs, Snakes and Leeches
Bee Charming
Mythic Journeys and Mythic Characters
Friends, Best Friends
Languages
Music Score Only
Spoken Langauage
English Only
Captioned for the Hearing Impaired
English
Feature Commentary with Director Jon Avnet
Jon Avnet's Director's Notes
Production Photographs
Poster Campaign
Sipsey's Recipes
Buttermilk Biscuits
SKillet Cornbread
Coconut Cream Pie
Pecan Pie
Sipsey's Southern-Fried Chicken
Chicken and Dumplings
Fried Ham with Red-Eye Gravy
Production Notes
Cast and Filmmakers
Jessica Tandy
Kathy Bates
Mary Stuart Masterson
Mary-Louise Parker
Jon Avnet
Cicely Tyson
Chris O'Donnell
Theatrical Trailer
Universal Weblinks
Language Selection
Spoken Languages
English
Feature Commentary with Director John Avnet
Captions and Subtitles
Subtitles
Français
Español
Captioned for the Hearing Impaired
English
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"Jon Avnet's Fried Green Tomatoes gets a very strong DVD release from Universal Studios. The disc boasts a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. A closed-captioned English soundtrack is rendered in D
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- Fried Green Tomatoes
- Director: Thomas Newman
The very model of the contemporary "chick flick," Fried Green Tomatoes still ranks among the best of the breed. Adapted from her bestselling novel, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café, Fanny Flagg's screenplay expertly evokes the 1920s in the Deep South while drawing a vivid picture of female resourcefulness and fortitude. Skillfully slipping in and out of time periods, the dual story unfolds as dowdy, unhappily married Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates), begins visiting a nursing home to chat with Ninny Threadgoode (Jessica Tandy). The still sprightly Ninny, a former resident of Whistle Stop, Alabama, tells Evelyn about a young woman named Ruth Jamison (Mary-Louise Parker), who operated the book's titular café, which specialized in breaded fried green tomatoes. Married to a loutish redneck, Ruth grew much closer to her friend Idgie Threadgoode (Mary Stuart Masterson), her partner in the café. The flashback sequences to the 1920s describe Whistle Stop's racial tensions, which bubble over into violence when Ruth's no-account husband disappears and is presumed to have been murdered by a black man named Big George (Stan Shaw). Less specifically described, but clearly inferred, is a lesbian relationship between Ruth and Idgie. Director Jon Avnet elicits terrific performances from Parker and Masterson, who were then near the beginning of their careers. Avnet sensitively portrays Flagg's underlying subject -- a narrow-minded society's response to nonconformity -- without wallowing in sentimentality or preachiness. The result is an uplifting movie that wins new fans with every screening.