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.

• DirectorJon Avnet
• Release27 December 1991
• Genre
  Drama / Comedy
• Duration2h 10m
• Budget$11,000,000
• Revenue$119,400,000
• Rate
  

  7.704
  1382 reviews
• Productions

  Universal Pictures, Act III Productions, Avnet/Kerner Productions, Electric Shadow Productions, Fried Green Tomatoes Productions