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Fried Green Tomatoes

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

1991 · PG-13 · 2h 10m

Directed by Jon Avnet

7.7

TMDB audience score
1,544 votes, out of 10

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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.

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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