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Fried Green Tomatoes
The secret of life? The secret's in the sauce.
Dec 27, 1991 · 2h 10m
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Drama
Comedy
PLOT
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
Directed by
Jon Avnet
DETAILS
Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
$11,000,000
Revenue
$119,418,501
Production
Act III Productions, Electric Shadow Productions, The Avnet/Kerner Company, The Rank Organisation
Country
US
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