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Fried Green Tomatoes 1991
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Lovely, sweet, moving film. I love lesbians!
This one has everything: cannibalism, trains, getting revenge on abusive shitheads, wistfulness about the past, and Kathy Bates destroying peoples’ cars like she’s a cast member on the Netflix Original Series Beef.
Hoping the mid-late 2020s bring us a Mary Stuart Masterson revival - odd to me that she didn’t become a star after this. Maybe she’ll at least guest star on Matlock and share a scene with Kathy Bates? (Which she never does in this movie).
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Shadows and Fog 1991
What I wouldn’t give for a film with an ensemble of Lily Tomlin, Kathy Bates, Jodie Foster, and Mia Farrow sharing scenes together directed by anyone who wasn’t Woody Allen.
Truly stunning how effectively he manages to squander a wonderful cast (everyone listed above and more - Wallace Shawn! Philip Bosco! Young Fred Melamed!) Almost nobody really gets a chance to shine here, and we spend far too much time with Woody Allen as Kleinman, the least interesting performance in…
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Misery 1990
So good! The moments of humor, the surprises, the tension. Kathy Bates is so wonderful in this. I think this is the first role that really shows her full range as an actor. I especially love the unexpected ways she uses her buoyancy and delight in this role. The texture of her performance (and of James Caan’s, too) is much of what makes the movie special. I love how much of an asshole he is - and how lovable she…
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Men Don't Leave 1990
Sweet, slightly shaggy movie - could use some cutting perhaps, but endearing and with some really moving moments. Jessica Lange is so good at playing deep depression. Joan Cusack MVP - especially for one wonderfully dogged sequence with Jessica Lange. Kathy Bates is lots of fun as Jessica Lange’s hot and terrible boss at the gourmet food store (which is also a delightful work of production design).
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