Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Directed by Jon Avnet
Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in 1920s Whistle Stop, Alabama.
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They work in " Citizen Kane ," for example.
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.
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."