OSCARS '91: Fried Green Tomatoes

“TOWANDA!!!”

CONTENT WARNING: Misogyny, abuse, trauma, death, grief, illness, homophobia.

Our last movie for the series is so good, we just don’t have much to say about it. Get a story about two strong Southern women, wrap it in a beautiful plot about a pushover finally finding her own strength in the world, and give the bow of Jessica Tandy being the best storyteller ever. That’s all you need for this beautiful story about friendship, love, and the South. The cast is incredible, the writing is impeccable, and the directing is…well, it’s exactly what it needs to be. In fact, the only problem is the fact that this movie wasn’t able to get to the deeper romance between its two leads - and even then, it’s still pretty romantic. Grab your hammer and start slamming the walls as we talk about Fried Green Tomatoes this week on Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?!

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Intro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive..

Excerpt taken from “The Whistle Stop Café” from the score to the motion picture Fried Green Tomatoes. Written and composed by Thomas Newman. Copyright 1991 Universal City Studios, Inc.; 1992 MCA Records, Inc.

Excerpt taken from the introduction to the 64th Academy Awards, conducted by Bill Conti. Aired March 30, 1992 on ABC.