Fried green tomatoes / in association with Electric Shadow Productions ; an Avnet/Kerner production ; screenplay Fannie Flagg and Carol Sobieski ; producers, Jon Avnet and Jordan Kerner ; executive producers, Norman Lear, Andrew Meyer, Anne Marie Gillen, Tom Taylor ; director, Jon Avnet.

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.