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:
Carol Sobieski, Fannie Flagg.
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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 |
| Directing | Jon Avnet | Director |
| Writing | Fannie Flagg | Novel |
| Writing | Carol Sobieski | Screenplay |
| Writing | Fannie Flagg | Screenplay |
| Production | David Rubin | Casting Director |
| Production | Martin Huberty | Co-Producer |
| Production | Lisa Lindstrom | Co-Producer |
| Production | Ric Rondell | Co-Producer |
| Production | Norman Lear | Executive Producer |
| Production | Andrew Meyer | Executive Producer |
| Production | Anne Marie Gillen | Executive Producer |
| Production | Tom Taylor | Executive Producer |
| Production | Jon Avnet | Producer |
| Production | Jordan Kerner | Producer |
| Production | Deborah Love | Associate Producer |
| Production | Barbara Ling | Associate Producer |
| Sound | Kathy Nelson | Music Supervisor |
| Sound | Arthur Baker | Music Supervisor |
| Art | Larry Fulton | Art Direction |
| Art | Debra Schutt | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Fern Buchner | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Cydney Cornell | Hairstylist |
| Sound | Mary H. Ellis | Sound Mixer |
| Sound | Alan Robert Murray | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Sound | Walter Newman | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Sound | Bill Bernstein | Music Editor |
| Crew | Kerrie Cullen | Stunt Coordinator |
| Costume & Make-Up | Elizabeth McBride | Costume Design |
| Art | Barbara Ling | Production Design |
| Sound | Thomas Newman | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Debra Neil-Fisher | Editor |
| Camera | Geoffrey Simpson | Director of Photography |
| 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 |