1991/12/27 (US) | Drama, Comedy
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.
Jon Avnet
Director
Fannie Flagg
Screenplay
Carol Sobieski
Screenplay
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
$ 11,000,000
$ 119,418,501
Released
Fannie Flagg
Novel
Walter Newman
Supervising Sound Editor
Anne Marie Gillen
Executive Producer
Alan Robert Murray
Supervising Sound Editor
Lisa Lindstrom
Co-Producer