Fried Green Tomatoes

When Evelyn arrives in Whistle Stop, Ninny is sitting on a suitcase.

A few minutes later, when they walk towards the car, the suitcase has disappeared.

Evelyn's hands on the steering wheel when she is in the grocery store parking lot, getting ready to hit the "young girls" red Volkswagen.

Beer disappears from Ruth's hand between shots during baseball game When Idgie, Big George, and a third man go to get Ruth so that she can leave her husband, they all arrive in one car, but when they leave Big George isn't in the car.

Evelyn's pearls when she goes to the hospital to visit Ninny.

Ed says the Evelyn has hit the younger girls car 6 times, but in the film she only hits it 4 times.

When Buddy hangs up the swinging rope off of the bridge before entering the house, he hangs it on a post on the right side of the bridge.

However, when he goes to retrieve Ruth's hat later, he grabs the rope from the left side of the bridge.

When Ninnie is voicing the story of Ruth's cancer, she states that Ruth is moved to the Threadgoode house and placed downstairs.

The following scenes indicate that Ruth is in an upstairs bedroom, as we see Idgie looking out the window, and looking down at the kids playing ball, and we see the tops of trees when Sipsey prepares the medications.

Evelyn pauses with the wrapped fried green tomatoes in hand and looks down the hallway.

There are several people in the hallway, one is an older woman with an orange flowered robe and a bandaged left foot.

She is seated facing Evelyn as she begins her walk down the hallway, but as Evelyn passes the seated woman she suddenly has her back to the wall.

In the scene where the young women are in the boxcar (from which they pass out canned goods), the box cars were obviously built by the set decorators.

And wrong.

The cars have outside bracing, common enough in the period of the film.

But all outside-braced boxcars had their wood planks running horizontally, not vertically as in the movie.

When Frank Bennett's truck is retrieved from the river, as it's being hoisted up and spins, it is obvious that the engine/transmission have been removed, and a painted piece of sheet-metal put in place to obscure the void.

When Evelyn picks up the note from Idgy to Ruth at the end of the film, she does not place the note back on her grave beside the honey.

But when it flashes back to the grave the note has been placed back on Ruth's grave stone.

If Frank Bennett was murdered in Whistle Stop Alabama, then the murder trial would have to have taken place in Alabama, not Georgia.

The state of Georgia would have no jurisdiction whatsoever on any crime committed in another state.

A Georgia sheriff could certainly investigate the matter, but any actual prosecution would have to be undertaken in the state where the crime was committed.

In the beginning of the movie when Ed and Evelyn are lost at the Whistle Stop searching for their Aunt Vesta's retirement home and are looking on the map, Ed mistakenly calls Evelyn "Ruth".

In the beginning of the movie when Mrs.

Threadgood is talking to Evelin she says that Idge is arrested.

But it turns out that she does not get convicted of murder like Mrs.

Threadgood says she does.

When Evelyn's husband brings her flowers, she pulls out previous flowers from the vase and we can see there is no water in the vase.

Both bunch of flowers appear to be artificial.

During one of Evelyn's visits to Ninny, Ninny is sporting a new hair-do.

Her hair has been cut quite short and colored lavender.

However, the next time Evelyn visits Ninny, her hair is once again very long and very white.

When Evelyn is at the grocery store checkout, a bar code reader is obvious in the counter top.

At the end of the movie, it shows the condemned cafe with all of the soda tin advertisement signs.

The tin "Ski" is advertised on the door.

Since the movie took place between World War 1 and World War 2, the Ski sign is at a wrong time period.

Ski came out in 1956 by Double Cola and the cafe was shut down shortly after Ruth's death (1939).

At film end as camera starts pan across Café front, first hanging 'tin' sign is for 2 liter soda 89c.

Liters didn't come into U.

sales until PepsiCo introduced the first two liter sized soft drink bottle in 1970, likely long after Whistle Stop decline.

I have viewed this marvelous film at least 2 dozen times. As with all great movies, you will always catch something "new" with each watching.

There's no other way to put it there are films that just make you feel good. These films are reasonably called 'feel good' movies you may watch them and have a good time and a week later forget everything about them: "In Good Company" comes to mind.

Timid housewife Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates) befriends old Ninny Threadgoode (Jessica Tandy) at a retirement home. She recounts an old depression era story of Idgie Threadgoode (Mary Stuart Masterson) and her friendship with Ruth Jamison (Mary-Louise Parker).

This film is a tale of friendship between a middle aged housewife with a failing marriage, and a lonely old age home resident.Though the plot is touching, I think t has the wrong emphasis.

I think I have seen the movie at least 5 or more times. I love it.

I was first introduced to this movie by flipping through the channels and I believe it was on HBO. It was about twenty minutes into the movie and I thought to give it a chance and my mouth was open in awe by the end of the movie.

A fresh, lovely story, full of southern charm and heart. A movie about friendship (or is it?