Fried Green Tomatoes [DVD]

by Jon Avnet

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A housewife who is unhappy with her life befriends an old lady in a nursing home and is enthralled by the tales she tells of people she used to know.

Director: Jon Avnet
Writers: Fannie Flagg (novel), Fannie Flagg (screenplay), and 1 more
Stars: Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy and Mary Stuart Masterson

UT_GSC | Jan 7, 2011 |

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A chance encounter in a nursing home leads to an unexpected friendship between a dowdy housewife and a spry octagenarian who tells her the story of a fiercely independent woman half a century ago, inspiring the housewife to change her life, often with hilarious results.… (more)

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