Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
The secret of life? The secret's in the sauce.
Synopsis
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
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Kathy Bates
as Evelyn Couch
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Jessica Tandy
as Ninny Threadgoode
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Mary-Louise Parker
as Ruth Jamison
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Mary Stuart Masterson
as Idgie Threadgoode
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Cicely Tyson
as Sipsey
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Stan Shaw
as Big George
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Chris O'Donnell
as Buddy Threadgoode
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Gailard Sartain
as Ed Couch
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Timothy Scott
as Smokey Lonesome
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Gary Basaraba
as Grady Kilgore
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Lois Smith
as Mama Threadgoode
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Jo Harvey Allen
as Woman's Awareness Teacher
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Fannie Flagg
as Teacher
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Suzi Bass
as Nurse
- Tom Even as Judge
- Afton Smith as Leona Threadgoode
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Haynes Brooke
as Older Julian Threadgoode
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Wallace Merck
as KKK Man
Crew
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Jon Avnet
Director
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Geoffrey Simpson
Director of Photography
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Debra Neil-Fisher
Editor
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Thomas Newman
Original Music Composer
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Jon Avnet
Producer
- Jordan Kerner Producer
- Carol Sobieski Screenplay
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Fannie Flagg
Screenplay
