The secret of life? The secret's in the sauce.
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.
Directed byJon Avnet
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 2h 10m
- Language
- EN
- Released
- December 27, 1991
- Budget
- $11,000,000
- Revenue
- $119,418,501
Electric Shadow ProductionsThe Avnet/Kerner CompanyWatch the
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Featuring
Cast & crew
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
- Directed by
- Jon Avnet
- Written by
- Carol SobieskiFannie Flagg
- Produced by
- Jon AvnetJordan Kerner
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