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The secret of life? The secret's in the sauce.
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.
$11,000,000
$119,418,501
December 27, 1991
Act III Productions, Electric Shadow Productions
42 people
Kathy Bates
Evelyn Couch
Acting
Jessica Tandy
Ninny Threadgoode
Acting
Mary-Louise Parker
Ruth Jamison
Acting
Mary Stuart Masterson
Idgie Threadgoode
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Cicely Tyson
Sipsey
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Stan Shaw
Big George
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Chris O'Donnell
Buddy Threadgoode
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Gailard Sartain
Ed Couch
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Timothy Scott
Smokey Lonesome
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Gary Basaraba
Grady Kilgore
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Lois Smith
Mama Threadgoode
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Jo Harvey Allen
Woman's Awareness Teacher
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