Fried green tomatoes

Resource Information

The work Fried green tomatoes represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Jacksonville Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Fried green tomatoes

Statement of responsibility

Universal Pictures and Act III Communications present in association with Electric Shadow Productions ; an Avnet/Kerner production ; screenplay by Fannie Flagg and Carol Sobieski ; produced by Jon Avnet and Jordan Kerner ; directed by Jon Avnet

Contributor

• Act III Communications
• McBride, Elizabeth
• Meyer, Andrew
• Kerner, Jordan
• Flagg, Fannie
• Neil-Fisher, Debra
• Newman, Thomas, 1955-
• Bates, Kathy, 1948-
• Universal Pictures (Firm)
• O'Donnell, Chris
• Parker, Mary-Louise
• Universal Studios Home Video (Firm)
• Rondell, Ric
• Avnet, Jon, 1949-
• Tyson, Cicely
• Shaw, Stan, 1952-
• Tandy, Jessica
• Simpson, Geoffrey, (Cinematographer)
• Sobieski, Carol
• Lear, Norman
• Ling, Barbara
• Electric Shadow Productions
• Masterson, Mary Stuart, 1966-

Actor

• Tandy, Jessica
• Shaw, Stan, 1952-
• Parker, Mary-Louise
• O'Donnell, Chris
• Bates, Kathy, 1948-
• Masterson, Mary Stuart, 1966-
• Tyson, Cicely

Composer

• Newman, Thomas, 1955-

Costume designer

• McBride, Elizabeth

Director

• Avnet, Jon, 1949-

Director of photography

• Simpson, Geoffrey, (Cinematographer)

Editor of moving image work

• Neil-Fisher, Debra

Film distributor

• Universal Studios Home Video (Firm)

Presenter

• Act III Communications
• Universal Pictures (Firm)

Producer

• Avnet, Jon, 1949-
• Lear, Norman
• Rondell, Ric
• Kerner, Jordan
• Meyer, Andrew

Production designer

• Ling, Barbara

Screenwriter

• Sobieski, Carol
• Flagg, Fannie

Subject

• Grabaciones vídeo para los de audición disminuida
• Nursing home patients -- Alabama -- Drama
• Older women -- Alabama -- Drama
• Race relations -- Drama
• Reminiscing in old age -- Alabama -- Drama
• Restaurants -- Drama
• Southern States -- Race relations -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Alabama -- Drama
• Women -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- Drama
• Women -- Alabama -- Drama
• Comedy films
• Cooking, American -- Southern style -- Drama
• DVDs
• Discos videos digitales (DVD)
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Female friendship -- Drama
• Film adaptations
• Flagg, Fannie -- Film adaptations

Genre

• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Film adaptations
• Feature films
• Drama
• DVDs
• Comedy films

Language

• eng
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

A chance encounter in a nursing home leads to an unexpected friendship between a dowdy housewife and a spry octogenarian who tells her the story of a fiercely independent woman half a century ago, inspiring the housewife to change her life, often with hilarious results

Cataloging source

IAK

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Music, Thomas Newman ; costume designer, Elizabeth McBride ; co-producer, Ric Rondell ; editor, Debra Neil ; production designer, Barbara Ling ; director of photography, Geoffrey Simpson ; executive producers, Norman Lear and Andrew Meyer

Language note

In English with optional English SDH and subtitles in Spanish or French. Closed-captioned

PerformerNote

Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, Cicely Tyson, Chris O'Donnell, Stan Shaw

Runtime

137

Target audience

general

Technique

live action