Fried Green Tomatoes
“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.
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Studio
Universal Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How Fried Green Tomatoes performed
Budget
$11.0M
Worldwide Gross
$119.4M
Gross Profit
$108.4M
Return
10.9× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$17M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Evelyn Couch
Kathy Bates
Evelyn Couch
Ninny Threadgoode
Jessica Tandy
Ninny Threadgoode
Ruth Jamison
Mary-Louise Parker
Ruth Jamison
Idgie Threadgoode
Mary Stuart Masterson
Idgie Threadgoode
Sipsey
Cicely Tyson
Sipsey
Big George
Stan Shaw
Big George
Buddy Threadgoode
Chris O'Donnell
Buddy Threadgoode
Ed Couch
Gailard Sartain
Ed Couch
Smokey Lonesome
Timothy Scott
Smokey Lonesome
Grady Kilgore
Gary Basaraba
Grady Kilgore
Mama Threadgoode
Lois Smith
Mama Threadgoode
Woman's Awareness Teacher
Jo Harvey Allen
Woman's Awareness Teacher
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