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Fried Green Tomatoes

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★ 7.7 /10

Fried Green Tomatoes

1991 · 130

Dir. Jon Avnet

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Fried Green Tomatoes

“The secret of life? The secret's in the sauce.”

★ 7.7 /10 (1,456) • 1991 • 2h 10m

Drama Comedy

Director Jon Avnet

Screenplay Fannie Flagg, Carol Sobieski

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.

Release

Dec 27, 1991

Budget

$11M

Revenue

$119M

Country

United States of America

Cast

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Ninny Threadgoode

Mary-Louise Parker

Ruth Jamison

Mary Stuart Masterson

Idgie Threadgoode

Stan Shaw

Big George

Chris O'Donnell

Buddy Threadgoode

Gailard Sartain

Ed Couch

Timothy Scott

Smokey Lonesome

Gary Basaraba

Grady Kilgore

Mama Threadgoode

Jo Harvey Allen

Woman's Awareness Teacher

Fannie Flagg

Teacher

Suzi Bass

Nurse

Haynes Brooke

Older Julian Threadgoode

Reverend Scroggins

Constance Shulman

Missy

Nick Searcy

Frank Bennett

Macon McCalman

Prosecutor Percy

Raynor Scheine

Sheriff Curtis Smoote

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