{"id":1548,"date":"2020-03-07T18:10:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T18:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2020-11-23T23:11:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T23:11:57","slug":"fried-green-tomatoes-1991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/?p=1548","title":{"rendered":"Fried Green Tomatoes<\/em> (1991)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fried Green Tomatoes<\/em> (1991)<\/h1>\n

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There are so many topics about life in general interwoven here — friendship, racism, aging, self-image, marriage, conforming to expectations<\/strong>\u00a0— all handled with thoughtfulness and dry humor and spanning a long timeline across multiple locales.<\/p>\n

Here is the wonderful scene where Cathy Bates achieves “parking lot justice”<\/strong> in a way that (let’s be honest now<\/em>) most of us have at some point been tempted to try.<\/p>\n

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Personal connection<\/h4>\n

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When I was about 12 years old I saw one of the movie’s stars — Jessica Tandy — perform at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis along with her equally famous husband of more than 50 years, Hume Cronyn. Their’s was indeed a one-of-a-kind relationship<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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While this is a movie focused on four women (remarkable women, I must say), it is WAY MORE than a “chick flick”<\/em>. I’ve watched it several times — with large\u00a0gaps of time\u00a0in between\u00a0— and it continues to resonate with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.oganovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Poster-for-movie-Fried-Green-Tomatoes.jpg?fit=404%2C252&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1995,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions\/1995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}