Fried Green Tomatoes(Movie, 1991)

Name: Fried Green Tomatoes
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: 1991
Duration: T02:10:00
Rating: 3.8

PG-13

| 2h 10min | Genres: Drama, Comedy

Rating: 3.8/5 (with 574 votes)

Fried Green Tomatoes is a 1991 American comedy-drama film directed by Jon Avnet and based on Fannie Flagg's 1987 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. Written by Flagg and Carol Sobieski, and starring Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker and Cicely Tyson, the film tells the story of a middle-aged housewife who, unhappy with her life, befriends an elderly lady in a nursing home and is enthralled by the tales she tells of people she used to know. The film was released in theaters in the United States on December 27, 1991, garnered positive reviews from critics and was a box office success, grossing $119.4 million on a $11 million budget. Fried Green Tomatoes r... ()

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Awards & Nominations for Fried Green Tomatoes

nominated for: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nominated for: Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

About Fried Green Tomatoes

Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the 1920s.

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Trailer for Fried Green Tomatoes + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Fried Green Tomatoes Trailer 1991(Trailer, 2:31)

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Shot in: Alabama, Georgia

Plays in: Alabama

Based on the work of: Fannie Flagg ("Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe")

Made by: Universal Pictures, Avnet/Kerner Productions, Act III Productions, Electric Shadow Productions, Fried Green Tomatoes Productions

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 25 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 12/27/1991

Cast: Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, Cicely Tyson, Chris O'Donnell, Richard Riehle, Nick Searcy, Lois Smith, Grace Zabriskie, Stan Shaw, Danny Nelson, Gailard Sartain, Raynor Scheine, LaTanya Richardson, Fannie Flagg, Timothy Scott, Constance Shulman, Gary Basaraba

Director: Jon Avnet

Producer: Norman Lear

Screenwriter: Fannie Flagg, Carol Sobieski

Film Editor: Debra Neil-Fisher

Director of Photography: Geoffrey Simpson

Composer: Thomas Newman

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Fried Green Tomatoes - EC"

"Le secret est dans la sauce"

"Fried Green Tomatoes at the Cafe"

"Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe"

"프라이드 그린 토마토"

"후라이드 그린 토마토"

"Stekta gröna tomater"

Keywords: tomato, tomboy, alabama, based on novel or book, cafe, bee, southern usa, lesbian, nursing home

Budget: 11,000,000 USD

Revenue: 119,418,501 USD (= 1,086%)

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