Fried Green Tomatoes (1991): Love, Chosen Family, and Towanda
It's our 100th episode, and somehow no movie fits that milestone better than Fried Green Tomatoes. This week in the Blanket Fort, Beth and Michelle dig into John Avnet's 1991 classic starring Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, and Cicely Tyson, the story of a stifled Birmingham housewife, a nursing home friendship, and the Depression-era love story of Idgie and Ruth that changes everything.
We talk grief, growing older, invisibility, chosen family, and what it means to finally find your inner Towanda. We also get into the film's handling of race, the…
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