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.
Genre: Comedy, Drama Actors: Afton Smith, Bob Hannah, Carol Mitchell-Leon, Chris O'Donnell, Cicely Tyson, Constance Shulman, Danny Nelson, David Dwyer, Enjolik Oree, Evan Lockwood, Fannie Flagg, Gailard Sartain, Gary Basaraba, Genevieve Fisher, Ginny Parker, Grace Zabriskie, Grayson Fricke, Haynes Brooke, Jessica Tandy, Jo Harvey Allen, Kathy Bates, Kathy Larson, Lashondra Phillips, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Lois Smith, Macon McCalman, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, Missy Wolff, Nancy Moore Atchison, Nick Searcy, Raynor Scheine, Reid Binion, Richard Riehle, Ron McCall, Stan Shaw, Suzi Bass, Ted Manson, Timothy Scott, Tom Even, Tres Holton, Wallace Merck Directors: Jon Avnet Production: Act III Productions, Avnet/Kerner Productions, Electric Shadow Productions, Fried Green Tomatoes Productions, Universal Pictures