Movies for Grownups: 'Fried Green Tomatoes'

Movies for Grownups: 'Fried Green Tomatoes'

Watch this comedy-drama classic about hardship and love in 1920s’ Alabama.

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Fried Green Tomatoes is a 1991 American comedy-drama film directed by Jon Avnet and based on Fannie Flagg's 1987 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. Written by Flagg and Carol Sobieski, and starring Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker and Cicely Tyson, the film tells the story of a middle-aged housewife who, unhappy with her life, befriends an elderly lady in a nursing home and is enthralled by the tales she tells of people she used to know.

This film is rated PG-13.

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