Fried Green Tomatoes (Film), released 1991 — adapted from Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg.
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.
Starring Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary-Louise Parker, Mary Stuart Masterson, Cicely Tyson.
Directed by Jon Avnet.
