From Crushes to Courage: How “Fried Green Tomatoes” Helped Me Understand Queer Love and Growing Up
When my sixth-grade crush told me she didn’t want to partner up with me for a class project, I was quietly heartbroken. I didn’t yet […]
Fried Green Tomatoes
From Tree-Climbing Tomboy to Arts Leader: Young Idgie from Fried Green Tomatoes Is All Grown Up
Before Nancy Atchison auditioned for the part of the young Idgie Threadgoode in the movie “Fried Green Tomatoes,” her parents read her the novel on […]
‘Fried Green Tomatoes’ 30 years later
Revisiting Idgie and Ruth, the iconic (but closeted) onscreen butch/femme duo It’s 1991 and I’m sitting in a dark theatre on a December night when […]
Flashbacks Usually Flop – But ‘Fried Green Tomatoes’ Finds the Secret Sauce
I have a built-in resistance to movies where a couple of people sit around in the present, discussing a story that took place in the […]
Dig Into the Dish: 11 Hidden Truths About Fried Green Tomatoes
One of the greatest friendships in Southern fictional history is that of Idgie and Ruth, the two women at the heart of the classic film […]
