Fried Green Tomatoes
Summary: A housewife who is unhappy with her life befriends an old lady at a nursing home and is enthralled by the tales she tells of people she used to know.
Release Date: January 24, 1992
Genre: Drama
Director:
Jon Avnet
Runtime: 2 h 10 min
MPAA: PG-13
Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 11,000,000
Domestic: $ 82,418,501
International: $ 37,000,000
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