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Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Directed by Jon Avnet
“The secret of life? The secret's in the sauce.”
Drama, Comedy · 2h 10m
Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in 1920s Whistle Stop, Alabama.
Cast
Kathy Bates
Evelyn Couch
Jessica Tandy
Ninny Threadgoode
Mary-Louise Parker
Ruth Jamison
Mary Stuart Masterson
Idgie Threadgoode
Cicely Tyson
Sipsey
Stan Shaw
Big George
Chris O'Donnell
Buddy Threadgoode
Gailard Sartain
Ed Couch
Timothy Scott
Smokey Lonesome
Gary Basaraba
Grady Kilgore
Lois Smith
Mama Threadgoode
Jo Harvey Allen
Woman's Awareness Teacher
Crew
- Director
- Jon Avnet
- Screenplay
- Carol Sobieski, Fannie Flagg
- Novel
- Fannie Flagg
- Director of Photography
- Geoffrey Simpson
- Original Music Composer
- Thomas Newman
- Editor
- Debra Neil-Fisher
- Producer
- Jon Avnet, Jordan Kerner
Details
- Release date
- 1991-12-27
- Runtime
- 2h 10m
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom, United States of America
- Production
- Act III Productions, Electric Shadow Productions, The Avnet/Kerner Company, The Rank Organisation
- Budget
- $11,000,000
- Box office
- $119,418,501