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Meanwhile, Harvey Keitel ("The Grey Zone," "U-571") shows up as another FBI agent, Mary-Louise Parker ("The Portrait of a Lady," "Fried Green Tomatoes") plays Norton's wife, Philip Seymour Hoffman ("Almost Famous," "State and Main") embodies a seedy journalist and Anthony Heald ("Proof of Life," "8MM") reprises his role from "Lambs."
Carol’s amnesia plot is told through the lens of a space opera, a buddy cop comedy, a coming-of-age flick, and a ’90s lesbian romance (she even has a beloved leather jacket) that, just like many movies from the ’90s (think Fried Green Tomatoes or A League of Their Own ), is full of lesbian subtext but stops short of actually pulling the trigger.
They work in " Citizen Kane ," for example.
That's when Violet finally tells her the disturbing history of the house and the Hoodoo magic of Papa Justify (Ronald McCall, "Fried Green Tomatoes") and his wife Mama Cecile (Jeryl Prescott Sales).
It marks the big-screen directorial debut of Avnet, a veteran producer ("Risky Business") who directed Farrah Fawcett and the late Colleen Dewhurst in the 1986 TV movie, "Between Two Women."
But in this movie by "Risky Business" producer Jon Avnet, they are not lesbians, just really, really good friends.
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Directed by Frank Darabont
influenced by Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Themes
1994 was the year that men finally got their version of Fried Green Tomatoes and Beaches .
She would be nominated again a couple years later for “Fried Green Tomatoes” and died in 1994.
Kathy Bates ("Misery") plays a sweet but unhappily married Alabama lady who gorges on candy bars, and Jessica Tandy ("Driving Miss Daisy") is a nursing-home patient who befriends her by telling her a long, tall tale that has some relation to Tandy's own past.
A Southern reminiscence with Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy, "Fried Green Tomatoes" is decidedly traveling in the same circles as "Driving Miss Daisy."