Fried Green Tomatoes
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In middle age, Evelyn endures the fatigue of marriage and the boredom of life. By chance, while accompanying her husband to visit her mother-in-law in a nursing home, Evelin met Nini, a lonely and nagging 86-year-old old lady. Evelin, who fell into a cycle of gluttony, shared snacks and desserts with Nini while listening to Nini's fragmentary stories about a small town called Whistle Town more than 50 years ago... When the naughty and lively "tomboy" Aggie met the lady Ruth, she knew she had met the most important person in her life. Witnessing Ruth's domestic violence after marriage, Aggie and her friends worked hard to rescue Ruth and treated Ruth's son as their own. She and Ruth opened a café together, and their signature dish was fried green tomatoes. All kinds of people in Whistler Town, chattering housewives, men with oily hair, black servants, and unkempt homeless people all gathered in this small cafe. A picture of daily life in rural America slowly unfolds...
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