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Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) More at IMDb Pro »

• Continuity: 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.
  
  
• Continuity: 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.
  
  
• Continuity: Beer disappears from Ruth's hand between shots during baseball game
  
  

• Continuity: At Frank Bennett's house, Big George's hand position changes between shots. In one shot, he cleans his fingernails with a knife. Next, his hands are down at his side but in the subsequent shot, he finishes cleaning his nails and drops his hands down.
  
  
• Continuity: 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.
  
  
• Continuity: Evelyn's pearls when she goes to the hospital to visit Ninny.
  
  
• Continuity: Ed says the Evelyn has hit the younger girls car 6 times, but in the film she only hits it 4 times.
  
  
• Continuity: 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.
  
  
• Continuity: 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.
  
  
• Continuity: 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.
  
  
• Continuity: At the sister's wedding, little Idgie climbs the tree; she throws her second shoe down twice.
  
  
• Factual errors: 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.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: 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.
  
  
• Continuity: 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.
  
  

• Factual errors: SPOILER: 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.
  
  

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