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Movie: 'Fried Green Tomatoes'

Fried Green Tomatoes (PG-13, 130 min.) is the second film in this year’s Off the Wall rooftop film series following the theme Color Our World.

Based on Fannie Flagg's novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café, this 1991 classic about friendship, family, and second chances, stars Kathy Bates, Cicely Tyson, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, and Jessica Tandy.

A middle-aged Alabama housewife (Bates) is unhappy with her life and struggling marriage. She befriends a woman in a residential care facility (Tandy) and learns about some inspirational and reaffirming town history.

Free popcorn and beer for the series provided by Young Friends of the Library.

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Upcoming in this series:
22
Aug
Movie: 'Deep Blue Sea'
Central Library |
8:45pm
26
Sep
Movie: 'Black Panther'
Central Library |
8:45pm
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Movie: 'Fried Green Tomatoes'

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