Film

Fried Green Tomatoes 1991

Directed by Jon Avnet

  • Drama, Comedy
  • 130 min
  • PG-13

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

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.

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