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Fried Green Tomatoes (Beignets de tomates vertes)
poster Réalisateur: Jon Avnet
Acteurs: Kathy Bates (as Evelyn Couch), Mary Stuart Masterson (as Idgie Threadgoode), Mary-Louise Parker (as Ruth Jamison), Jessica Tandy (as Ninny Threadgoode), Cicely Tyson (as Sipsey), Chris O'Donnell (as Buddy Threadgoode), Stan Shaw (as Big George), Gailard Sartain (as Ed Couch), Tim Scott (as Smokey Lonesome), Gary Basaraba (as Grady Kilgore), Lois Smith (as Mama Threadgoode), Jo Harvey Allen (as Women's Awareness Teacher), Macon McCalman (as Prosecutor), Richard Riehle (as Reverend Scroggins), Reiner Schöne (as Curtis Smoote (as Raynor Scheine))
Pays: UK
Catégorie: Drama
Année: 1991
Résumé: Evelyn Couch is having trouble in her marriage, and no one seems to take her seriously. While in a nursing home visiting relatives, she meets Ninny Threadgoode, an outgoing old woman, who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode, a young woman in 1920's Alabama. Through Idgie's inspiring life, Evelyn learns to be more assertive and builds a lasting friendship of her own with Ninny.
Commentaire: Fried Green Tomatoes begins as Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates) an emotionally repressed housewife with a habit of drowning her sorrows eating many candy bars. Her husband Ed (Gailard Sartain) barely acknowledges her existence, and while he visits his aunt at a nursing home every week, Evelyn is not permitted to come into the room because the old women doesn't like her. One visit, while waiting out Ed's visit, Evelyn meets Ninny Threadgoode (Jessica Tandy), a frail but feisty old woman who lives at the same nursing home and loves to tell stories. Over the span of several weeks, she spins a whopper about one of her relatives, Idgie (Mary Stuart Masterson). Back in the 1920s, Idgie was a sweet but fiercely independent woman with her own way of doing things who ran the town diner in Whistle Stop, Alabama. Idgie was very close to her brother Buddy (Chris O'Donnell), and when he died, she wouldn't talk to anyone except Buddy's girl, Ruth Jamison (Mary-Louise Parker). Idgie gave Ruth a job at the cafe after she left her abusive husband, Frank Bennett (Nick Searcy). Between her habit of standing up for herself, standing up to Frank, and serving food to Black people out the back of the diner, Idgie raised the ire of the less tolerant citizens of Whistle Stop, and when Frank mysteriously disappeared, many locals suspected that Idgie, Ruth, and their friends may have been responsible. Evelyn finds herself looking forward to her weekly visits with Ninny, and is inspired by her story to take a new pride in herself and assert her independence from Ed. Evelyn changes her lifestyle eating right, exercising, and not taking crap from anyone. I loved the part where Bates rams the younger girls car, that was funny. The great actresses Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy are just stellar in this wonderful tale. Fried Green Tomatoes is a good story that shouldn't be missed especially if you grew up in the South.
Langue: English
Sous-titres: English
Durée: 130 Min
Format vidéo: XviD MPEG-4 Codec
Format audio: MPEG Layer 3 (MP3)
Nombre de CD: 2