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Fried green tomatoes / Universal Pictures and Act III Communications ; 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.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 023 671
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Flagg, Fannie--Film adaptations.
- Flagg, Fannie.
- Women--Southern States--Social conditions--Drama.
- Women.
- Race relations.
- Social conditions.
- Southern States--Race relations--Drama.
- Southern States.
- Genre:
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Feature films.
- Film adaptations.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Collector's edition ; widescreen.
- Place of Publication:
- Universal City, CA : Universal Home Video, [1998]
- Language Note:
- Includes versions dubbed in French or Spanish and subtitles in French or Spanish.
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD, Dolby surround stereo.
- digital
- optical
- surround
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- 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.
- Participant:
- Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, Cicely Tyson.
- 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.
- Notes:
- "Extended version."--Container
- Based upon the novel Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg.
- Originally produced as motion picture in 1991.
- Includes Moments of discovery : the making of Fried Green Tomatoes, notes and commentary from director John Avnet, production photographs, poster campaign, and theatrical trailers.
- Rated PG-13.
- Contains:
- Moments of discovery : the making of Fried Green Tomatoes.
- ISBN:
- 0783229410
- OCLC:
- 40866151
- Publisher Number:
- 2519202442
- 20244 Universal
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