Fried Green Tomatoes(1991)

Name: Fried Green Tomatoes
Director: Jon Avnet
Genre: Drama
Released: Dec 27, 1991
Cast: Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, Cicely Tyson

Universal Pictures

PG-13
2h 10m
- Drama

Release Date: Dec 27, 1991

Evelyn Couch is a dissatisfied housewife in 1980s Birmingham, Alabama, who strikes up an unlikely friendship with an elderly woman, Ninny Threadgoode, at a nursing home. Over a series of visits, Ninny tells Evelyn about two women — Idgie and Ruth — who ran the Whistle Stop Cafe together in 1920s Alabama and weathered everything the world threw at them. A film that moves between two time periods, two friendships, and one story about what women are capable of when they decide to stop accepting what they are given.

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Releases

Original Release | Dec 27, 1991

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Director & Top Cast

Jon Avnet
Director

Kathy Bates
Evelyn Couch

Jessica Tandy
Actor

Mary Stuart Masterson
Actor

Mary-Louise Parker
Actor

Cicely Tyson
Actor

Chris O'Donnell

Actor

Stan Shaw

Actor

Gailard Sartain

Actor

Timothy Scott

Actor

Gary Basaraba

Actor

Lois Smith

Actor

Jo Harvey Allen

Actor

Macon McCalman

Actor

Richard Riehle

Actor

Raynor Scheine

Actor

Grace Zabriskie

Actor

Reid Binion

Actor

Technical Specifications

Sound Mix: Dolby SR

Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English

Summaries

Plot Summary

Fried Green Tomatoes is a 1991 American comedy-drama directed by Jon Avnet and written by Fannie Flagg and Carol Sobieski, adapted from Flagg's 1987 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. The film stars Kathy Bates as Evelyn Couch and Jessica Tandy as Ninny Threadgoode in the present-day framing story, and Mary Stuart Masterson as Idgie Threadgoode and Mary-Louise Parker as Ruth Jamison in the 1920s flashback narrative. The supporting cast includes Cicely Tyson, Chris O'Donnell, Stan Shaw, and Gary Basaraba. Cinematography is by Geoffrey Simpson, and the score is by Thomas Newman. Principal photography took place across multiple locations in Georgia, including Juliette, Senoia, Newnan, and Conyers. The film was given a limited US release on December 27, 1991, by Universal Pictures, going wide on January 24, 1992. It grossed $119.4 million worldwide against an $11 million production budget. The film received two Academy Award nominations, for Best Supporting Actress (Tandy) and Best Adapted Screenplay, and two BAFTA nominations. It also won a GLAAD Award for Best Feature Film with Lesbian Content. Core themes include female friendship, resilience, identity, marriage, race, and the gap between the lives women are expected to live and the ones they choose. The film is widely regarded as a landmark of American women's cinema of the early 1990s.