Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 130 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
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.
- based on novel or book
- southern usa
- alabama
- female friendship
- barbecue (bbq)
- tomato
- cafe
- bee
- nursing home
- tomboy
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
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
- Directed
- Jon Avnet
- Written
- Fannie Flagg, Carol Sobieski
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 1,489 ratings
- Studio
- Universal Pictures, Act III Productions, Avnet/Kerner Productions, Electric Shadow Productions, Fried Green Tomatoes Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
