Factual error: When Idgie and Ruth ride on the train Idgie's shining hair reveals that there is more light in the wagon than the petroleum lamp they brought with them. (00:29:05)
Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
1 factual error
Directed by: Jon Avnet
Starring: Jessica Tandy, Kathy Bates, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker
Continuity mistake: When Buddy follows his little sister up the tree at the beginning of the film, where they are getting ready for the wedding, they show the mother coming out on the porch and listening in on the conversation. She stands on the porch for a few moments, holding onto one of the pillars and watching her two children in the tree. In the next frame, you see the two up in the tree and under Buddy's arm, you see the mother walk out onto the porch again. (00:09:45)
Ninny Threadgoode: Hey Evelyn, somebody stole my house.
Question: What's the title and the author of the painting that is covered with the mirror when Ruth dies?
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Answer: The title is "Cherry Ripe" by the 19th century pre-raphaelite author John Everett Millais.