Lighthearted drama starring Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy. A feisty octogenarian tells a depressed housewife a story about two women from the Deep South of the 1930s. (1991)

Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in 1920s Whistle Stop, Alabama.