Fried Green Tomatoes

Yes, ma'am, how ya doing this afternoon? Is this Rose Hill?

Good. This is Ed Couch.

Uh-huh. I'm Vesta Adcock's nephew.

I need to get up there and see her,

but I'm gonna be late 'cause I'm lost out here.

We're off the Alabama interstate, but I don't know where.

Did you hear that?

What?

The train.

No, I didn't hear no train.

Nothing, I guess.

Where's "Whistle Stop" on the map?

I can't find it.

Why did you tell me to turn right 10 miles back there?

God, you got a negative sense of direction, hon.

I'm sorry.

Ed, your aunt's gonna be so disappointed we're late.

I know she's been looking forward to this visit all week long.

Bless her sweet, little ol' heart.

How's my sweet Auntie V this afternoon?

Remember us?

Don't you look pretty!

Brought you something that smells sweet.

Let me look at you.

Don't you know Evelyn loves you?

Honey, I guess it'd be better if you wait out here for me.

I'll get all this stuff.

Well, if you think it's best.

Yeah, I do this time. Okay?

Have a nice day, Aunt Vesta.

Don't you pitch a fit like that!

Did you know they took my gallbladder out?

No, I didn't.

Yes. Still in the hospital in a jar.

I guess that's where they keep 'em.

I guess.

When I was in the hospital,

the nurse give me one of them fleet enemas they're so fond of.

Mrs. Cleo Threadgoode,

82-year-old widow, imagine that.

Actually, everybody calls me Ninny.

'Course I'm just visitin' here.

Did you ever have one of them fleet enemas?

Um...

Well?

No.

You'd remember it.

Me and my friend, Mrs. Otis, come from Whistle Stop.

You ever been to Whistle Stop?

Why, yes, I just passed by there today.

She's lived down the street from me for 30 years or more.

After her son died,

her daughter-in-law had a fit for her

to come live here at the nursing home.

And they asked me to come with her and be her roommate.

Mrs. Otis don't know it, but I'm going back home

just soon as she gets settled in good.

Does the name "Idgie Threadgoode" ring a bell?

Oh...

No, ma'am. I don't think so.

You'd remember her.

You see, I was practically adopted by the Threadgoode family.

I married her brother, Cleo. Oh. Uh-huh.

Idgie and her friend, Ruth, ran the Whistle Stop Café.

Idgie was a character, all right.

But how anybody could've thought

she murdered that man is beyond me.

I beg your pardon?

You sit and relax a while. I'll tell you all about it.

Now, let's see.

I 'member the day they pulled that truck up out of the river.

That same rainy, summer day,

Idgie Threadgoode was arrested

for the murder of the owner of that truck,

Frank Bennett.

I guess, to understand Idgie,

you'd have to start way back with her brother, Buddy.

Idgie was Buddy's pet from the day she was born.

I 'member the day we was all gettin' ready for Leona's weddin'.

The war had just ended,

the "great one," you know.

And another one was about to begin in the Threadgoode house.

Sipsey, honey, is that finished?

Buddy, get dressed, honey.

Mama?

Leona, what is it?

Idgie's upstairs in her room

and says she won't come out as long as she lives.

She is gonna ruin my weddin'. Shh...

Leona, you're gonna be the most beautiful bride.

Of course she is, Papa.

Your papa has spent every last nickel he has just to make you happy.

Now, you try to act a little grateful, young lady.

Imogene Louise Threadgoode!

This is your mama!

You come down here right now. Do you hear me?

Buddy, fetch her. She'll listen to you.

Come on down, little bit.

There's no firin' squad waitin' for you.

Oh...

Come on, honey. Now, let us see you.

You look so pretty.

I see London, I see...

Hush!

Julian, hush. Come ahead, sweetheart.

You look awful nice in that.

Mama!

You look just fine, Idgie.

She looks like a monkey.

Julian, stop it right this second!

Take it back! Take it back!

Idgie!

I told you she was gonna ruin my weddin'.

Idgie, get up. Take it back!

Take it back!

You better take it back, Julian.

I'll get you for this. No, Buddy.

We have to be careful when she's dressing up.

She's just a pain!

Leona, will you stop shrieking, honey?

This is your weddin' day!

Looks like you got yourself up a tree, little bit.

I'm sick of people makin' fun of me.

So you're gonna stay up here all day long?

Yep. The hell with them.

Who wants to wear that stupid ol' dress anyway?

I ever tell you about the oysters?

Oysters?

I tell you about the oysters? No.

Think about the millions of oysters

just lyin' around the bottom of the ocean.

Then one day,

God comes along and sees one and he says,

"I think I'm gonna make that one different."

You know what he does?

He puts a little piece of sand in it.

Guess what it can do that the others can't.

What?

It can make a beautiful pearl.

What if God made a mistake?

Well, the way I figure it, he never makes mistakes.

I mean, he made sure we got together.

He made sure you got the best looking,

most charmin' brother in the world...

Who's gonna beat you to the chocolate cake.

You will not.

Got you out of the tree, didn't I?

Did not!

Into this estate, these two come now to be joined.

If any man present can show cause

why they may not lawfully be joined together,

let him speak now or forever after hold his peace.

Please be seated.

If either of you know any reason

why you may not justly be joined together in holy matrimony,

do you now confess it?

It is then your will to proceed.

Do you, Charles Osgood Justice...

Frankly, I don't know what we'd do without your generosity.

You're so kind, Sipsey, honey, especially you. Look what you've done!

You're welcome, Mrs. Threadgoode. Gimme that, you rascal you!

Jump on my back.

I don't think there ever was a sweeter boy than Buddy Threadgoode.

You look beautiful today, Lily.

Yes, Lily, you sure do.

I had the biggest crush on him.

He was a terrible flirt!

Buddy's heart belonged to Ruth Jamison.

She was the daughter of a friend of his mama's

who was visitin' that summer.

Ruth Jamison, you're just the one I've been looking for.

Are you thirsty?

Let's go visit someplace else.

Think that's a big lake, you should've seen the one next to our house.

We used to swim in it and fish.

I sure do miss it. Sure do.

What happened to it? Did it dry up?

No, worse than that.

Last fall, a flock of ducks,

about 40 or 50 of 'em, landed right smack in the middle of it.

While they were sitting there, this fluke thing happened.

The temperature dropped so fast that the whole lake froze

in three seconds, just like that!

Those poor little ducks. Did it kill them?

No, they flew off and took the lake with 'em.

To this very day, that lake is somewhere over in Georgia.

Buddy Threadgoode.

Come a little closer. I want to give you something.

Come here.

Oh!

Come back here, hat. Where do you think you're going?

Oh!

I got it. Hold on, Ruth. Hold on, little bit.

It's all right. I got it.

Come here, you damn hat. Got it!

I meant to do that.

I got it!

Ta-da!

All right. Damn!

Come on.