Fried Green Tomatoes
The secret of life? The secret's in the sauce.
7.7(1,497) 1991-12-27 130 minDramaComedy
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.
ScreenplayFannie Flagg
ScreenplayCarol Sobieski
DirectorJon Avnet
ProducerJon Avnet
ProducerJordan Kerner
Original Music ComposerThomas Newman
Cast & characters
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
Lois Smith
as Mama Threadgoode
Jo Harvey Allen
as Woman's Awareness Teacher
Fannie Flagg
as Teacher
Suzi Bass
as Nurse
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Tom Even
as Judge
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Afton Smith
as Leona Threadgoode
Haynes Brooke
as Older Julian Threadgoode
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Wallace Merck
as KKK Man
Richard Riehle
as Reverend Scroggins
Constance Shulman
as Missy
Nick Searcy
as Frank Bennett
Macon McCalman
as Prosecutor Percy
Raynor Scheine
as Sheriff Curtis Smoote
Grace Zabriskie
as Eva Bates
