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.
Directed by Jon Avnet
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
Rank
#9 in 1991·#622 overall
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Cast
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
Gailard Sartain
Ed Couch
Timothy Scott
Smokey Lonesome
Gary Basaraba
Grady Kilgore
Lois Smith
Mama Threadgoode
Jo Harvey Allen
Woman's Awareness Teacher
Crew
Jon Avnet
Director
Fannie Flagg
Screenplay
Thomas Newman
Original Music Composer
Debra Neil-Fisher
Editor
Geoffrey Simpson
Director of Photography
Norman Lear
Executive Producer
Jon Avnet
Producer
Fannie Flagg
Novel
Alan Robert Murray
Supervising Sound Editor
Bruce Paul Barbour
Stunts
Tracy Keehn-Dashnaw
Stunts
Popular Reviews
1108 reviews
Mars
10.0★ · 01/13/26
loved loved loved this! by the way everyone talked about this film you'd think the queercoding was super subtle but baby this is all country fried yuri dpmo
loved loved loved this! by the way everyone talked about this film you'd think the queercoding was super subtle but baby this is all country fried yuri dpmo
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CJ
8.0★ · 01/30/24
lesbians. that’s it. that’s the review.
lesbians. that’s it. that’s the review.
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j
8.0★ · 06/27/26
the fear that struck my spine when evelyn thought ninny died, lord. a wonderful film with great subtext. idgie is going right on my list of favorite lesbians in media <3
the fear that struck my spine when evelyn thought ninny died, lord. a wonderful film with great subtext. idgie is going right on my list of favorite lesbians in media <3
