Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Overview
Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the 1920s.
Production Companies
Additional Info
| Budget | $11,000,000.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $119,400,000.00 |
| Original Language | en |
| Popularity | 25.711 |
Directed By
Jon Avnet
Crew
Jon Avnet
Fannie Flagg
Carol Sobieski
Fannie Flagg
David Rubin
Martin Huberty
Lisa Lindstrom
Ric Rondell
Norman Lear
Andrew Meyer
Anne Marie Gillen
Tom Taylor
Jon Avnet
Jordan Kerner
Deborah Love
Barbara Ling
Kathy Nelson
Arthur Baker
Larry Fulton
Debra Schutt
Fern Buchner
Cydney Cornell
Mary H. Ellis
Alan Robert Murray
Walter Newman
Bill Bernstein
Kerrie Cullen
Elizabeth McBride
Barbara Ling
Thomas Newman
Debra Neil-Fisher
Geoffrey Simpson
Bruce Paul Barbour
Laura Dash
Dick Hancock
Tracy Keehn-Dashnaw
Joy Hooper
Jeff Rafner
Deborah Love
Colleen Callaghan
Morris Flam
TOP 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
Fannie Flagg
Teacher
Suzi Bass
Nurse
Tom Even
Judge
Afton Smith
Leona Threadgoode
Haynes Brooke
Older Julian Threadgoode
Wallace Merck
KKK Man
Richard Riehle
Reverend Scroggins
Constance Shulman
Missy
Nick Searcy
Frank Bennett
Macon McCalman
Prosecutor Percy
Raynor Scheine
Sheriff Curtis Smoote
Grace Zabriskie
Eva Bates
Reid Binion
Young Julian Threadgoode
Danny Nelson
Papa Threadgoode
Nancy Moore Atchison
Little Idgie Threadgoode
Ginny Parker
Ruth's Mother
Tres Holton
Boy at Supermarket
Ron McCall
Ocie
David Dwyer
Hooded Man
Lashondra Phillips
Young Naughty Bird
Kathy Larson
Beetle Girl #1
Missy Wolff
Beetle Girl #2
LaTanya Richardson Jackson
Janeen
Grayson Fricke
Buddy Threadgoode Jr.
Enjolik Oree
Older Naughty Bird
Genevieve Fisher
Peggy Hadley
Bob Hannah
Defense Attorney
Ted Manson
Bailiff
Carol Mitchell-Leon
Sue Otis
Evan Lockwood
Tim
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