The girls spent the summer together gathering wild honey and falling in love. Idgie initially resisted Ruth's attempts at friendship, but then gradually allowed a deep attachment to develop. Igdie's mother persuaded the straitlaced Ruth Jamison, Buddy's former girlfriend, to spend time with her 'wild' daughter, hoping some ladylike influence will rub off. Devastated by her grief, Idgie withdrew from the world during her childhood and adolescence. The girl's charming older brother Buddy had been hit by a train and killed. Ninny describes Idgie as her sister-in-law. The movie flashes back to half a century ago when tomboy Imogene 'Idgie' Threadgoode, the youngest of the Threadgoode children, wore pants, a tie, and cut her hair short. From now on, every Wednesday, Ninny tells Evelyn tales about the colorful folks surrounding the mysterious now-abandoned Whistle Stop Café, a landmark that caught Evelyn's eye on her way to the nursing home. After being thrown out of the rather cranky aunt's room, she is approached by a kind and sparkling 83-year-old lady, Ninny Threadgoode. Fannie Flagg, Carol Sobieski Cast: Kathy Bates, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker Jessica Tandy, Cicely Tyson, Chris O'Donnell, Stan Shaw, Gailard Sartain, Timothy Scott, Gary Basaraba, Lois Smithįried Green Tomatoes is based on the novel, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café, by Fannie Flagg.Įvelyn Couch, a timid, depressed, and unhappily married housewife in her forties, visits her husband's aunt in a Birmingham, Alabama nursing home.

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