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Title Fried green tomatoes [videorecording] / Universal Pictures and Act III Communications present in association with Electric Shadow Productions an Avnet/Kerner production ; screenplay, Fannie Flagg and Carol Sobieski ; producers, Jon Avnet and Jordan Kerner ; director, Jon Avnet.

Imprint Universal City, Calif. : Universal Home Video, [1999?], c1991.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 1st Fl DVD Collection  DVD Fried    ---  Available
 Pittsburg 1st Fl DVD Collection  DVD Fried c.2  ---  DUE 11-07-15 Billed
Edition Widescreen, anniversary edition.
Description 1 videodisc (137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Note Not rated.
Based upon the novel Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1991.
Features include: theatrical trailer ; feature commentary by director Jon Avnet ; Moments of discovery, and original documentary on the making of the movie ; Jon Avnet's scene specific notes ; production photographs ; poster campaign.
Dolby surround stereo.
"20224."
Credits 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.
Cast Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, Cicely Tyson.
Summary A chance encounter in a nursing home leads to an unexpected friendship between a dowdy housewife and a spry octagenarian 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.
System Details DVD.
Source Donation 9/9 PPL
Language Closed captioned.
In English, Spanish, French ; subtitles in Spanish and French.
Subject Women -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- Drama.
Feature films.
DVD-Video discs.
Southern States -- Race relations -- Drama.
Added Author Bates, Kathy, 1948-
Tandy, Jessica.
Masterson, Mary Stuart, 1966-
Parker, Mary-Louise, 1964-
Tyson, Cicely, 1924-2021.
Avnet, Jon, 1949-
Sobieski, Carol.
Flagg, Fannie, Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe.
Universal Pictures (Firm)
Act III Communications.
Electric Shadow Productions.
ISBN 0783229410
9780783229416
Standard No. 025192508127
Music No. 20244 Universal

 
    
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