Top billed cast

1. 

   Kathy Bates

   Evelyn Couch

2. 

   Jessica Tandy

   Ninny Threadgoode

3. 

   Mary-Louise Parker

   Ruth Jamison

4. 

   Mary Stuart Masterson

   Idgie Threadgoode

5. 

   Cicely Tyson

   Sipsey

6. 

   Stan Shaw

   Big George

7. 

   Chris O'Donnell

   Buddy Threadgoode

8. 

   Gailard Sartain

   Ed Couch

9. 

   Timothy Scott

   Smokey Lonesome

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-01-25

"Evelyn" (Kathy Bates) and her husband "Ed" (Gailard Sartain) are going through the motions in their marriage. They've long stopped making any effort for each other and she is a bit fed up. It's when she is visiting a friend at an old folk's home that she encounters the frail but spritely "Ninny" (Jessica Tandy) and they get chatting. The older lady starts to regale her with stories of her younger wife in rural Alabama and of her sister-in-law "Idgie" (Mary Stuart Masterson). Over the next couple of weeks and months "Evelyn" becomes addicted to hearing the stories, as do we, of racial and sexu...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$11,000,000.00

Revenue
$119,418,501.00

Keywords

• based on novel or book
• southern usa
• alabama
• female friendship
• barbecue (bbq)
• tomato
• cafe
• bee
• nursing home
• tomboy
• lgbt
• roadside cafe
• abused wife
• train station
• small southern town
• lesbian
• elderly woman
• deep south
• flashback to past