Evelyn (Kathy Bates), a mature woman who lives frustrated by her fatness and the insensitivity and simplicity of her husband, meets Ninny (Jessica Tandy), an old woman in a nursing home who tells her little by little a dramatic story that occurred in a small town in Alabama. The story becomes more and more fascinating: it revolves around the great friendship between two women (Mary Stuart Masterson and Mary-Louise Parker) and the mysterious murder of the husband of one of them. Adaptation of a novel by Fannie Flagg. (FILMAFFINITY)