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- PEOPLE, Page 57Fried Green Success
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- BY MICHAEL QUINN
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- Take a group of actors who are gifted but have the drawing
- power of a dental-hygiene documentary. Add some decidedly mixed
- reviews and lackluster Oscar nominations (like such, uh . . .
- crowd-pleasing categories as Best Screenplay Based on Material
- Previously Produced or Published). What do you get? Sleeper hit
- Fried Green Tomatoes. Ten weeks into its run, this fable of
- down-home feminist friendship is outperforming such splashier
- efforts as Medicine Man and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle.
- NORMAN LEAR, whose Act III Communications made the film, says
- its success says something about America. "People are seeking
- a renewed sense of community and spiritual nourishment, and
- that's why the film is striking a chord."
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