Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
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.
Director:
Jon Avnet
Writers:
Fannie Flagg, Carol Sobieski.
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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 |
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Tom Even as Judge |
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Afton Smith as Leona Threadgoode |
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Haynes Brooke as Older Julian Threadgoode |
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Wallace Merck as KKK Man |
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Richard Riehle as Reverend Scroggins |
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Constance Shulman as Missy |
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Nick Searcy as Frank Bennett |
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Macon McCalman as Prosecutor Percy |
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Raynor Scheine as Sheriff Curtis Smoote |
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Grace Zabriskie as Eva Bates |
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Reid Binion as Young Julian Threadgoode |
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Danny Nelson as Papa Threadgoode |
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Nancy Moore Atchison as Little Idgie Threadgoode |
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Ginny Parker as Ruth's Mother |
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Tres Holton as Boy at Supermarket |
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Ron McCall as Ocie |
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David Dwyer as Hooded Man |
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Lashondra Phillips as Young Naughty Bird |
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Kathy Larson as Beetle Girl #1 |
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Missy Wolff as Beetle Girl #2 |
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LaTanya Richardson Jackson as Janeen |
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Grayson Fricke as Buddy Threadgoode Jr. |
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Enjolik Oree as Older Naughty Bird |
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Genevieve Fisher as Peggy Hadley |
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Bob Hannah as Defense Attorney |
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Ted Manson as Bailiff |
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Carol Mitchell-Leon as Sue Otis |
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Evan Lockwood as Tim |
| Writing | Fannie Flagg | Screenplay |
| Writing | Carol Sobieski | Screenplay |
| Directing | Jon Avnet | Director |
| Writing | Fannie Flagg | Novel |
| Production | Martin Huberty | Co-Producer |
| Production | Anne Marie Gillen | Executive Producer |
| Production | Jon Avnet | Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Fern Buchner | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Cydney Cornell | Hairstylist |
| Art | Debra Schutt | Set Decoration |
| Production | Norman Lear | Executive Producer |
| Production | Jordan Kerner | Producer |
| Art | Larry Fulton | Art Direction |
| Production | Ric Rondell | Co-Producer |
| Sound | Arthur Baker | Music Supervisor |
| Production | David Rubin | Casting Director |
| Production | Tom Taylor | Executive Producer |
| Production | Deborah Love | Associate Producer |
| Sound | Walter Newman | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Production | Barbara Ling | Associate Producer |
| Sound | Mary H. Ellis | Sound Mixer |
| Sound | Alan Robert Murray | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Sound | Kathy Nelson | Music Supervisor |
| Crew | Kerrie Cullen | Stunt Coordinator |
| Sound | Bill Bernstein | Music Editor |
| Production | Lisa Lindstrom | Co-Producer |
| Production | Andrew Meyer | Executive Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Elizabeth McBride | Costume Design |
| Sound | Thomas Newman | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Debra Neil-Fisher | Editor |
| Camera | Geoffrey Simpson | Director of Photography |
| Art | Barbara Ling | Production Design |
| Crew | Bruce Paul Barbour | Stunts |
| Crew | Laura Dash | Stunts |
| Crew | Dick Hancock | Stunts |
| Crew | Tracy Keehn-Dashnaw | Stunts |
| Crew | Joy Hooper | Stunts |
| Directing | Jeff Rafner | Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | Deborah Love | First Assistant Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Colleen Callaghan | Key Hair Stylist |
| Lighting | Morris Flam | Gaffer |