---
title: 'Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Jon Avnet'
released: '1991-12-27'
runtime_minutes: 130
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Comedy'
  - 'Mystery'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/fried-green-tomatoes-1991'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101921/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

1991 · 130 min · Drama, Comedy, Mystery · United States


## Synopsis

Fried Green Tomatoes is a 1991 American Southern Gothic comedy-drama film directed by Jon Avnet, and based on Fannie Flagg's 1987 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. Written by Flagg and Carol Sobieski, and starring Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, and Cicely Tyson, the film tells the story of a middle-aged housewife who, unhappy with her life, befriends an elderly lady in a nursing home and is enthralled by the tales she tells of people she used to know.

## Credits

- **Screenplay:** [Fannie Flagg](https://cinepixo.com/people/fannie-flagg), [Carol Sobieski](https://cinepixo.com/people/carol-sobieski)
- **Director:** [Jon Avnet](https://cinepixo.com/people/jon-avnet)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Thomas Newman](https://cinepixo.com/people/thomas-newman)
- **Producer:** [Norman Lear](https://cinepixo.com/people/norman-lear)
- **Director of Photography:** [Geoffrey Simpson](https://cinepixo.com/people/geoffrey-simpson)
- **Editor:** [Debra Neil-Fisher](https://cinepixo.com/people/debra-neil-fisher)

## Cast

- [Mary Stuart Masterson](https://cinepixo.com/people/mary-stuart-masterson)
- [Danny Nelson](https://cinepixo.com/people/danny-nelson)
- [Raynor Scheine](https://cinepixo.com/people/raynor-scheine)
- [Cicely Tyson](https://cinepixo.com/people/cicely-tyson)
- [Chris O'Donnell](https://cinepixo.com/people/chris-o-donnell)
- [Constance Shulman](https://cinepixo.com/people/constance-shulman)
- [Richard Riehle](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-riehle)
- [Stan Shaw](https://cinepixo.com/people/stan-shaw)
- [Mary-Louise Parker](https://cinepixo.com/people/mary-louise-parker)
- [Nick Searcy](https://cinepixo.com/people/nick-searcy)
- [Grace Zabriskie](https://cinepixo.com/people/grace-zabriskie)
- [LaTanya Richardson](https://cinepixo.com/people/latanya-richardson)
- [Gailard Sartain](https://cinepixo.com/people/gailard-sartain)
- [Jessica Tandy](https://cinepixo.com/people/jessica-tandy)
- [Fannie Flagg](https://cinepixo.com/people/fannie-flagg)

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