Is Fried Green Tomatoes actually good?

Fried Green Tomatoes sits in the 86.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 86.3% of them.

How does Fried Green Tomatoes compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Fried Green Tomatoes lands in the 87.6% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Fried Green Tomatoes's score based on?

181 calibrated reviewers stand behind Fried Green Tomatoes's score.

1991

global pct

86.3

Film · 1991 · Films · 1990s

Fried Green Tomatoes

Name: Fried Green Tomatoes
Genre: Drama
Released: 1991

Scored from 181 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

86.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

87.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

97.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

181 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A timid Alabama housewife strikes up a friendship with a spirited elderly woman at a nursing home, who shares stories of two extraordinary women who ran the Whistle Stop Cafe in the 1920s and 30s. The tales of their fierce bond, the cafe's famous fried green tomatoes, and a mysterious disappearance gradually inspire the listener to transform her own life.

Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) is a film IMDb files under the drama genre.

181 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 190 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 35 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.

Is Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 181
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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