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Fried Green Tomatoes
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.
1991 · Directed by Jon Avnet · 130 min · Drama · Comedy · 16 frames
Tagline
The secret of life? The secret's in the sauce.
Crew
- Screenplay: Fannie Flagg, Carol Sobieski
- Cinematography: Geoffrey Simpson
- Edited by: Debra Neil-Fisher
- Music: Thomas Newman
- Production design: Barbara Ling
- Produced by: Jon Avnet, Jordan Kerner
Cast
- Kathy Bates as Evelyn Couch
- Jessica Tandy as Ninny Threadgoode
- Mary-Louise Parker as Ruth Jamison
- Mary Stuart Masterson as Idgie Threadgoode
- Cicely Tyson as Sipsey
- Stan Shaw as Big George
- Chris O'Donnell as Buddy Threadgoode
- Gailard Sartain as Ed Couch
- Timothy Scott as Smokey Lonesome
- Gary Basaraba as Grady Kilgore
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Act III Productions, Electric Shadow Productions, The Avnet/Kerner Company, The Rank Organisation
- Budget: $11,000,000
- Box office: $119,418,501
- Themes: based on novel or book, southern usa, alabama, female friendship, barbecue (bbq), tomato, cafe, bee, nursing home, tomboy
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