025192024429

1991

1992-01-24

130

2h 10min

Nominated for 2 Oscars, 6 wins & 12 nominations total

Jon Avnet

Fannie Flagg, Carol Sobieski

Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson

Jon Avnet, Sara Duvall, Anne Marie Gillen, Martin Huberty, Jordan Kerner, Norman Lear, Lisa Lindstrom, Barbara Ling, Deborah Love, Yuriko Matsubara, Andrew Meyer, Ric Rondell, Shannon Silverman, Tom Taylor

Thomas Newman

Geoffrey Simpson

Debra Neil-Fisher

David Rubin

Barbara Ling

Larry Fulton

Debra Schutt

Elizabeth McBride

Fern Buchner, Colleen Callaghan, Cydney Cornell, Judi Goodman, Paul Huntley, Pauletta O. Lewis, Rosemary Zurlo, Patrice Coleman, Gene Witham

Michael B. Keegan, Ric Rondell, Donna Smith

Peter E. Hirsch, Deborah Love, Jeff Rafner

Susan L. Anderson, Hoby Belflower, Taylor Bennett, Rufus Best, Christian Bevington, Russ Blackmon, Tom Bolin, T. Kalan Brown, John Bullard, Debbie Charboneau, Daniel Durning, Douglas Fortner, Daniel B. Foster, Sandy Hamilton, Michael Hicks, Steven Kerlagon, Larry King, Jay Klein, Charles M. Lagola, Martin Lasowitz, Martha Martin, Eddie Lee Mayner, Swift Moseley, Ruffin Moye, Robert Tate Nichols, Alice Persons, Sara Peterson, Katie Pinholster, W. Dean Reuther, John Setzer, Chad Simpson, Chris Snyder, Billie Speer, Barry Spencer, Greg Spencer, Mark S. Turner, Chester K. Walding, Tommy Lee Watson Jr., Melanie Wester, Karen Young, Ted Boonthanakit, Tony Bradley, Carolyn Cartwright, Scott Mobley, Adam Snyder, Ann Stacy

Andre Bacha, Jim Borgardt, Neil Burrow, David E. Campbell, Gloria Cooper, Greg Curda, Ken Dufva, Mary H. Ellis, David Lee Fein, Bill Fibben, Devon Heffley Curry, Joseph A. Ippolito, Constance A. Kazmer, Mickie McGowan, Michael Mirkovich, Alan Robert Murray, Walter Newman, Kim Nolan, John T. Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, Michael Ruiz, Karen Spangenberg, Karen G. Wilson, Marshall Winn, Butch Wolf, Devon Heffley Curry, Allen Hurd

Tony Bradley, Tim Jones, Ken Reid, Larry Reid

Bruce Paul Barbour, Steven Chambers, Kerrie Cullen, Laura Dash, Dick Hancock, Joy Hooper, Tracy Keehn-Dashnaw, M.J. Lord, Tracy Keehn-Dashnaw

Michael Alexonis, Tom Bradley, Allan Bullard, Dan Cornwall, Stephen Crowley, Richard Dooley, James Ellis, Lisa J. Feitelberg, Richard Felber, Ken Ferris, Morris Flam, Ian Forsyth, Scott W. Leftridge, Tully McCulloch, Jesse Wayne Parker, C. Alan Rawlins, Chris Ridley, William Ridley, David Robertson, Robert Ulland, Denise Bailie, Allen Barnwell, Lee Blasingame, Adrian Carter, Jeff Funderburk, Jay Kemp, Bruce Lane, Greg Morse, David Reeder, Thomas Sorlie

Shay Griffin, Rex S. Jackson, Cynthia Stillwell, Debra Zane, Diane Alexander, Pat Cartwright Barwick, Amy Taylor

Yvonne Cervantes, Melinda Eshelman, Mitzi Haralson, Askia Won-Ling Jacob, Kris Kearney, Cheryl Kilbourne-Kimpton, Jane E. Myers, Elizabeth Palmer, Cindy Reno, Eileen Sieff Stroup, Kathy Oberlin, Amanda Zenil

Karen Broderick, Gary Burritt, Phil Hetos, Sabrina Plisco, Ken Schretzmann, Johnie Tidwell Jr.

Marlon Dwight, Daniel Jones, Pat Kilpatrick, Maida N. Morgan, Marc Pilvinsky, Eric S. Smith, Doug Whitley

Arthur Baker, Bill Bernstein, George Budd, Sandy DeCrescent, Leslie Morris, Kathy Nelson, Thomas Pasatieri, John Vigran, John Beasley, George Doering, Teretha G. Houston, Tim Morrison, Maria Newman, Paul Pesco, James Thatcher, Toots Thielemans

Caroline Sax, Toni Crey

Beverly Avery, Steve Caldwell, William Dawson, Gordon Jernberg, Kenny Jernberg, Regina Jernberg, Ken Peterson, Martha Pruette, Skip Steffens, Michael Tinsley, Blaine Whittle, Marsha Lawson Young

Canard Emile Barnes, Melanie Bell, Dave Brown, Mark S. Brown, Tommy Cochran, Colleen Cole, Walter Commander, Tim Crone, Dorothy Davis, Paul Erlicht, David Fish, Wayne Forsyth, Norman Gary, Butch Graziano, Greg Griffin, Tony Grillo, Robert Hart, Charles Heger, Cynthia Hizer Jubera, John M. Holliday, Syd E. Horne, Lee Ivey, Kelly Jarquin, Caroline Kallas, Val Keys, Nancy Jane King, Lori Koravos, Hope Kurczeski, James Mack, John Meredith, Senia Phillips, David Pollick, Jonathan Resnick, Julie Shapiro, Will Shivers, Katherine Speer, Kirsten Stevens, Lynne Stewart, Johnie Tidwell Jr., Elizabeth Tompkins, Melanie Webber, Diane Alexander, Pat Cartwright Barwick, Susan Gee, Solomon J. LeFlore, Grace Markley-Reiter, Thomas B. McGrath, Brad Stephens, Daniel Wheatcroft

Jay S. Berger, Sarah Black, Ollie Denny, Colleen Dewhurst, Dewey Graham, Anthony Heilbut, JoAnn May-Pavey, Bette L. Smith, Marion Williams, Robert Williams

Drama

Universal Pictures, Act III Communications, Avnet/Kerner Productions

USA

English

PG-13

7.7

75604

64

Fried Green Tomatoes is a 1991 American 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 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.

The film was released in theaters in the United States on December 27, 1991, garnered positive reviews from critics and was a box office hit, grossing $119.4 million on a $11 million budget. It was nominated for two Oscars at the 64th Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress (Tandy) and Best Adapted Screenplay.

$11,000,000 (estimated)

$105,317

$82,418,501

$119,418,501

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