TY - ADVS AU - Avnet,Jon AU - Sobieski,Carol AU - Newman,Thomas AU - Bates,Kathy AU - Tandy,Jessica AU - Masterson,Mary Stuart AU - Parker,Mary-Louise AU - Tyson,Cicely AU - Flagg,Fannie ED - Universal Pictures (Firm) ED - Act III Communications. ED - Electric Shadow Productions. TI - Fried green tomatoes SN - 155880952X PY - 1992/// CY - Universal City, CA PB - MCA Universal Home Video KW - Flagg, Fannie KW - Feature films N1 - Based upon the novel: Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe / by Fannie Flagg; Videocassette release of the 1991 motion picture; Directer, Jon Avnet ; producers, Jon Avnet, Jordan Kerner; screenplay, Fannie Flagg, Carol Sobieski; photography, Geoffrey Simpson; production designer, Barbara Ling; editor, Debra Neil; music, Thomas Newman; costume designer, Elizabeth McBride; co-producer, Ric Rondell; executive producers, Norman Lear and Andrew Meyer; Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, Cicely Tyson N2 - A chance encounter in a nursing home between a dowdy housewife and a spry octagenarian leads to an unexpected friendship. The story told of a fiercely independent woman half a century ago inspires the housewife to change her life, often with hilarious results ER -