Fried green tomatoes - 1991

A film that will make you cry, indeed. I'm still drying my eyes...
It has two storylines: one now (well, now in 1991) with housewife Evelyn (Kathy Bates) who meet 83 years old Ninny Threadgoode (Jessica Tandy). Ninny will tell her a big story that happened a long time ago . The other starts like 70 years ago and it's the story told by Ninny: when Idgie was little her beloved brother died. Growing up Idgie (Mary Stuart Masterson) seemed kind of out of control, so her mother asked Ruth (Mary-Louise Parker) to help her. To do so, Ruth gets to know her, and they become great friends. At the end of that summer Ruth gets married, and they don't see each other for a long time, but her husband Frank Bennett is a pathetic bastard who beats her, so Idgie takes Ruth home with her with the help of Big George (Stan Shaw). Together they open a nice café near the train station (where they make the fried green tomatoes of the title).
Idgie's friend Grady is worried because the kkk may not like that they work with and serve black people in the café. Ruth has her baby, and one night we see the kind of people that hides behind those hoods: Frank is one of them. He comes to Ruth's house to get her and their baby back, but at the end he goes away. He'll come back, though, at night and with a rifle, to steal his baby. Ruth is not there, just Sipsey who hits him on the head with a frying pan to stop him. When Idgie is informed, she knows they can't tell the truth because either in Alabama where they are or in Georgia where Bennet was from, the word of a black woman has no value. When a cop from Georgia will decide to charge Idgie and George with his murder, she will stay and face the trial to not leave George and Sipsey alone. Thanks to the reverend that lied for her the judge dismissed the case ( well, he had sworn on Moby Dick, not on the Bible, after all...)
However a few years later Ruth got sick and died, then the train stopped passing through there and therefore the café was closed.
At the end it is clearly implied that Ninny is actually Idgie, so we know that she got married and had a son. Now that she's alone and with no house, Evelyn insists to have her stay at her own house. Evelyn's grown so fond of Ninny she wants to take care of her now.
I love the friendship between Idgie and Ruth, so precious and strong, a real friendship that changed their lives. I also like that Ninny says friendship is the most important thing in the world. Wow, finally a movie giving friendship the right importance, there's not so many.
A friendship like the one Ruth and Idgie had is so precious and rare, I think most people don't realize how rare it is. For those who have it, I hope they understand how precious it is.
Their love was so touching, I cried when Ruth died; I wanted the two of them to be friends forever. One day Idgie would have married someone anyway, probably... well maybe... actually she was so happy as she was maybe she wouldn't have. Anyway, it doesn't matter. It was very sad but also very good. Touching.
Only thing I didn't like: the explanation of how they managed to make the body disappear. Apparently they barbecued him, for everyone to eat, and nobody noticed because the secret is in the sauce... and they laughed... is it funny? I couldn't avoid seeing a lot of problems with what they wanted to pass as the easiest solution. What did they do with all the... ehm.. the waste and with the head... I didn't like this.