Drama / Comedy /

Score: 77.0%( 1389 votes )

Overview: 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.

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