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Fried Green Tomatoes

Fried Green Tomatoes1991

★7.7130 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.

Director

Writer

Fannie Flagg Carol Sobieski

Score

Stars

Kathy Bates Jessica Tandy Mary-Louise Parker

Cast42

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
T
Tom Even
as Judge
A
Afton Smith
as Leona Threadgoode
Haynes Brooke
as Older Julian Threadgoode
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
R
Reid Binion
as Young Julian Threadgoode
Danny Nelson
as Papa Threadgoode
N
Nancy Moore Atchison
as Little Idgie Threadgoode
G
Ginny Parker
as Ruth's Mother
T
Tres Holton
as Boy at Supermarket
R
Ron McCall
as Ocie
David Dwyer
as Hooded Man
L
Lashondra Phillips
as Young Naughty Bird
K
Kathy Larson
as Beetle Girl #1
M
Missy Wolff
as Beetle Girl #2
LaTanya Richardson Jackson
as Janeen
G
Grayson Fricke
as Buddy Threadgoode Jr.
E
Enjolik Oree
as Older Naughty Bird
G
Genevieve Fisher
as Peggy Hadley
Bob Hannah
as Defense Attorney
Ted Manson
as Bailiff
C
Carol Mitchell-Leon
as Sue Otis
E
Evan Lockwood
as Tim

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