Kathy Bates,
Jessica Tandy,
Mary Stuart Masterson,
Mary-Louise Parker,
Cicely Tyson
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A woman learns the value of friendship as she hears the story of two women and how their friendship shaped their lives in this warm comedy-drama. Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates) is an emotionally repressed... read more
Directed by: Jon Avnet
Release Date: December 27, 1991
DVD Release Date: April 18, 2000
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Flixster Reviews (6,924)
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February 5, 2012Always love a good southern movie, and well done coming of age drama
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September 11, 2011A bittersweet story about how the Whistle Stop Cafe brought together Idgie Threadgoode, Ruth Jamison & many others & a story to be told by Ninny Threadgoode to a southern woman, Evelyn Couch.
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December 9, 2010Another tale of the Southern woman, so spicy and headstrong that she ends up in multiple adventures including murder, love affairs, and the ultimate threat of betrayal between best friends. Friendship, the cornerstone to this feel good film, is the building block that parallels r... read more
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November 29, 2010Full of southern charm and heart. A movie about friendship and how it shapes our lives. It's a classic and so good, but the director's cut is a little long.
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October 4, 2010I don't know what it is about this movie, but I like watching it. It is a story about a love between two women in a different era -- a story of good over evil, of weak over strong. It throws in a mystery of Ninny and Idgie as well. And perhaps a longing for the good old days.
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January 16, 2010Kathy Bates is a big woman and adorable at the same time. Hahaha Chris O'Donnell literally gets train run on him in this movie.
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July 27, 2009I really enjoyed this movie despite the fact that I watched it once and didn't remember so I rented it again.
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July 2, 2009This is truly a beautiful film.
Well written and superbly acted it tugs at the heartstrings harder than almost any other movie. The way it sets up an obvious story line and then like a gentle roller-coaster suddenly takes you in another direction is unequalled in this type of fi... read more
Critic Reviews
December 18, 2010
Heather Boerner, Common Sense Media
August 9, 2007
Cole Smithey, ColeSmithey.com
Please no.
August 29, 2006
Chuck O'Leary, FulvueDrive-in.com
An immensely likable, wonderfully-performed film. Full Review
August 27, 2006
Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central
The picture is about gender politics and a legacy of communal repression that is itself too embarrassed to port over a nearly-platonic-anyway love story between two women. Full Review
June 1, 2006
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
An enjoyable if sentimental chic flick that sanitizes Flagg's novel in two major respects, glossing over the lesbian relationship between Mary Louise Parker and Mary Stuart Masterson and underplaying ... Full Review
April 21, 2006
Rob Thomas, Capital Times (Madison, WI)
There's just enough human feeling here to make it transcend the feel--good chick-flick genre.
December 27, 2004
Steve Crum, Kansas City Kansan
Memorable ensemble, dead-on dialogue.
July 18, 2003
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice
A wonderful cinematic valentine to the life-enhancing and soul-stirring powers of friendship. Full Review
July 11, 2003
Greg Muskewitz, eFilmCritic.com
Bates and Tandy shine in what is essentially an extended flashback with the occasional present day bookends.
January 1, 2000
Chris Hicks, Deseret News, Salt Lake City
An enjoyable film for the Steel Magnolias crowd, though a bit grittier. Full Review
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