Fried Green Tomatoes

The secret of life? The secret's in the sauce.

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.

Drama Comedy

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)

Fannie Flagg

(Teacher)

Suzi Bass

(Nurse)

Tom Even

(Judge)

Afton Smith

(Leona Threadgoode)

Haynes Brooke

(Older Julian Threadgoode)

Wallace Merck

(KKK Man)

Richard Riehle

(Reverend Scroggins)

Constance Shulman

(Missy)

Nick Searcy

(Frank Bennett)

Macon McCalman

(Prosecutor Percy)

Raynor Scheine

(Sheriff Curtis Smoote)

Grace Zabriskie

(Eva Bates)

Reid Binion

(Young Julian Threadgoode)

Danny Nelson

(Papa Threadgoode)

Nancy Moore Atchison

(Little Idgie Threadgoode)

Ginny Parker

(Ruth's Mother)

Tres Holton

(Boy at Supermarket)

Ron McCall

(Ocie)

David Dwyer

(Hooded Man)

Lashondra Phillips

(Young Naughty Bird)

Kathy Larson

(Beetle Girl #1)

Missy Wolff

(Beetle Girl #2)

LaTanya Richardson Jackson

(Janeen)

Grayson Fricke

(Buddy Threadgoode Jr.)

Enjolik Oree

(Older Naughty Bird)

Genevieve Fisher

(Peggy Hadley)

Bob Hannah

(Defense Attorney)

Ted Manson

(Bailiff)

Carol Mitchell-Leon

(Sue Otis)

Evan Lockwood

(Tim)