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.
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
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
Crew
Jon Avnet
Director, Producer
Fannie Flagg
Screenplay, Novel
Carol Sobieski
Screenplay
Debra Neil-Fisher
Editor
Geoffrey Simpson
Director of Photography
Deborah Love
First Assistant Director, Associate Producer
Jeff Rafner
Second Assistant Director
Anne Marie Gillen
Executive Producer
Norman Lear
Executive Producer
Andrew Meyer
Executive Producer
Tom Taylor
Executive Producer
Jordan Kerner
Producer
Barbara Ling
Associate Producer, Production Design
Lisa Lindstrom
Co-Producer
Ric Rondell
Co-Producer
Martin Huberty
Co-Producer
David Rubin
Casting Director
Elizabeth McBride
Costume Design
Colleen Callaghan
Key Hair Stylist
Cydney Cornell
Hairstylist
Fern Buchner
Makeup Artist
Walter Newman
Supervising Sound Editor
Alan Robert Murray
Supervising Sound Editor
Mary H. Ellis
Sound Mixer
Thomas Newman
Original Music Composer
Arthur Baker
Music Supervisor
Kathy Nelson
Music Supervisor
Bill Bernstein
Music Editor
Debra Schutt
Set Decoration
Bruce Paul Barbour
Stunts
Laura Dash
Stunts
Dick Hancock
Stunts
Tracy Keehn-Dashnaw
Stunts
Joy Hooper
Stunts
Kerrie Cullen
Stunt Coordinator
Morris Flam
Gaffer
Larry Fulton
Art Direction
