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Fried Green Tomatoes
Fried Green Tomatoes
Director:Jon Avnet
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.
Release:
1991 / 12 / 27
Rating:
7.7
Genres & Subgenres:
Drama
Comedy
Tags:
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
Fannie Flagg
as
Teacher
Richard Riehle
as
Reverend Scroggins
Constance Shulman
as
Missy
Nick Searcy
as
Frank Bennett
Raynor Scheine
as
Sheriff Curtis Smoote
Grace Zabriskie
as
Eva Bates
David Dwyer
as
Hooded Man
LaTanya Richardson Jackson
as
Janeen
Grayson Fricke
as
Buddy Threadgoode Jr.