Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy are wonderful. Mary Stuart Masterson and Marie-Louise Parker fine. With Cicely Tyson, Chris O'Donnell, Stan Shaw (Big George), Gailard Sartain, Tim Scott (Smokey), Lois Smith (mother).
Fannie Flagg's Alabama novel was adapted by herself and Carol Sobieski. Great early score from Tom Newman. Nicely photographed by Geoffrey Simpson (Green Card, Shine, Under the Tuscan Sun). Production designer Barbara Ling (Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood) is also an associate producer. Edited by Debra-Neil Fisher. There is also a credited Bee Wrangler!
Loved Harper Lee's comment on the novel: "Idgie Threadgoode is a true original: Huckleberry Finn would have tried to marry her!"
Having been watching Tarantino, when the KKK show up, I wanted to see them all being bloodily executed by machine gun. The blood against the white would have been a pleasing image, I feel.
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