72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Fried Green Tomatoes

Jon Avnet
USA - UK
Synopsis
Based on the best seller by Fannie Flag, a Pulitzer Prize candidate, this comedy melodrama was nominated for two Oscars for acting performances but it could have been nominated for several more. Interwoven stories about women tyrannised by their husbands in 1930's Alabama. The secret of life? It's in the sauce.
Director
Jon Avnet
Screenplay
Fannie Flagg, Carol Sobieski
Photography
Geoffrey Simpson
Edition
Debra Neil
Music
Thomas Newman
Cast
Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary Louise Parker, Cicely Tyson
Running Time
130 m.
Country
USA - UK
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