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.
"The secret of life? The secret's in the sauce."
Top Billed 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
Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews
F Filipe Manuel NetoVerified TMDB Critic
2023-12-17
**An unfairly forgotten film, quite emotional, that women will find very good and men may or may not like, depending on their tolerance for films with a greater sentimental charge.**
Director Jon Avnet brings us a good film that reminds us of the value of good friendships and self-love. Intelligently directing his crew and cast, he managed to make a discreet, unpretentious but very enjoyable film that easily wins over the audience. Still, it's bland and tepid, and perhaps that's precisely why it ended up as forgotten as it is.
One of the strongest points is clearly the cast, headed by tw...
C CinemaSerfVerified TMDB Critic
2025-01-25
"Evelyn" (Kathy Bates) and her husband "Ed" (Gailard Sartain) are going through the motions in their marriage. They've long stopped making any effort for each other and she is a bit fed up. It's when she is visiting a friend at an old folk's home that she encounters the frail but spritely "Ninny" (Jessica Tandy) and they get chatting. The older lady starts to regale her with stories of her younger wife in rural Alabama and of her sister-in-law "Idgie" (Mary Stuart Masterson). Over the next couple of weeks and months "Evelyn" becomes addicted to hearing the stories, as do we, of racial and sexu...
