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FRIED GREEN TOMATOES--Table Read Tuesdays

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· 3 h 54 min · 29,884 words · 170 timestamped sections

This is the full, timestamped transcript of "FRIED GREEN TOMATOES--Table Read Tuesdays", an episode of Table Read Tuesdays published August 28, 2024 (3 h 54 min, about 29,884 words). It mentions 15 people, works and ideas, including Fried Green Tomatoes, Evelyn Couch, Ruth Jamison, Big George, Bob Bennett.

What this episode is about

The content features a table read of "Fried Green Tomatoes," showcasing a diverse cast of characters and their introductions. Each participant shares their name, roles, preferred pronouns, location, and social media handles, setting the stage for an engaging reading of the beloved story.

Key takeaways

  • A cold read warms the heart—nothing like spontaneity to spark creativity and crack open a good script!
  • Characters like Evelyn and Ed remind us: sometimes you have to take the scenic route in life—and it may involve a goat.
  • The Whistle Stop Cafe is a metaphor for community: a hub for delicious gossip and equally rich friendships.
  • Old age isn't for the faint-hearted; it's a rollercoaster of memories, laughter, and the occasional hairbrush flying.
  • In a world craving connections, the ensemble cast highlights that every role, big or small, adds flavor to the story.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 15:00: Whistle Stop Cafe, Big George, Fried Green Tomatoes, Evelyn Couch
  2. – 30:00: Big George
  3. – 45:00: Big George, Rose Hills Nursing Home, Fried Green Tomatoes, Evelyn Couch
  4. – 1:00:00: Big George
  5. – 1:15:00: Bob Bennett, Rose Hills Nursing Home
  6. – 1:30:00: Big George, Bob Bennett, Grady Kilgore, Rose Hills Nursing Home
  7. – 1:45:00: Whistle Stop Cafe, Big George, Fried Green Tomatoes, Bob Bennett
  8. – 2:00:00: Big George
  9. – 2:15:00: Big George, Fried Green Tomatoes, Whistle Stop Cafe, Naughty Bird
  10. – 2:30:00: Bob Bennett, Big George, Rose Hills Nursing Home, Whistle Stop Cafe
  11. – 2:45:00: Big George, Bob Bennett, Buddy Junior, Naughty Bird
  12. – 3:00:00: Bob Bennett, Rose Hills Nursing Home, Fried Green Tomatoes, Big George
  13. – 3:15:00: Big George, Buddy Junior, Brian Bates
  14. – 3:30:00: Rose Hills Nursing Home
  15. – 3:45:00: Big George, Naughty Bird, Bob Bennett, Fried Green Tomatoes
  16. – 3:54:20: John Abnet

Notable quotes from "FRIED GREEN TOMATOES--Table Read Tuesdays"

  • I live in central Alberta I go by any pronouns today I'll be playing Evelyn couch and a ton of other roles so it should be fun I'm excited awesome let's go to Vicki hello I'm Vicky Dykes I'm also in central Alberta.
    about Evelyn Couch · at
  • This evening cat Wilson I live in Gig Harbor Washington my pronouns are she her tonight are be primarily playing Ruth as well as Eva and Smokey lome and probably catching some…
    about Ruth Jamison · at
  • Me all right and then so Aubrey I think you're starting go right ahead Fried Green Tomatoes at the whistle shop Whistle Stop Cafe screenplay by Fanny flag and John Abnet they on novel by Fanny flag exterior whistles shop.
    about Fried Green Tomatoes · at
  • Abandoned railroad tracks across the front of one building very faded a sign the Whistle Stop Cafe it is covered with Advertising Signs some cardboard some tin advertising…
    about Whistle Stop Cafe · at
  • Evelyn Muses to herself you must you're right Ed that must be how I found you exteror Rose Hills Nursing Home day a sterile one-story cement block building in a semi-commercial area of Birmingham a handful of cars in the parking lot the.
    about Rose Hills Nursing Home · at
  • It is Rusted and worn tight on a Georgia license plate a sheriff's car rolls to a halt and out walks Grady Kilgore a large ruddy-faced man he stares at the license plate and…
    about Grady Kilgore · at
  • Could even go out there God damn it what's going to happen now well officially you and big George are under arrest for murder you're on my custody until tomorrow I told them I'd bring you in over to Georgia first thing in the.
    about Big George · at
  • Solitaire and that's all they play around here oh Iggy you see had a mind of her own I guess in order to understand her you'd have to start way back with her brother buddy well higy was Buddy's pet from the day she was born.
    about Iggy Threadgood · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Evelyn Couch — Person · Character (read aloud by cast member) · 4 mentions · first at
    Central present-day protagonist in the script reading; her visits to Rose Hills Nursing Home frame Ninny’s stories.
  • Ruth Jamison — Person · Character (read aloud by host/cast member) · 2 mentions
    Key figure in Ninny’s past narrative; co-runs the Whistle Stop Cafe with Idgie and is central to the Frank Bennett storyline.
  • Big George — Person · Character (supporting; central to racial violence tension) · 50 mentions · first at
    Close to the Threadgoode family; threatened by racist violence and is (with Idgie) placed under arrest in the Frank Bennett murder investigation.
  • Bob Bennett — Person · Character (antagonist; referenced in plot) · 26 mentions · first at
    Ruth’s husband; his truck is found in the river and his disappearance triggers the murder accusation against Idgie and Big George.
    Stops at a secluded area by the tracks what's up W somebody found Frank Bennett truck in the river and that godamn stupid Deputy of M sent it over to the W before I could even go out there God damn it what's going to happen now well.
  • Iggy Threadgood — Person · Character (backstory catalyst) · 6 mentions
    Idgie’s beloved brother; his death is a pivotal trauma that shapes Idgie and Ruth’s relationship and subsequent events.
  • Grady Kilgore — Person · Character (law enforcement; plot facilitator) · 3 mentions · first at
    Sheriff figure who manages the investigation and warns Idgie; mediates threats against Big George and the murder accusation context.
  • Buddy Junior — Person · Character (child; symbolic continuation of Buddy) · 3 mentions · first at
    Ruth’s baby named in honor of Buddy; important emotional beat that ties Ruth/Idgie/Buddy’s memory together and motivates the cafe opening.
    Blood a car drives up to the accident site igy picks up buddy his arm has been mauled she carries a moaning buddy Junior to the car with the help of smokey Lonesome you got to stop the bleeding Ruth she puts her skirt tightly against his.
  • Fanny Flagg — Person · Referenced author/screenwriter (source material credit) · 1 mention · first at
    Credited in the script header as the screenplay author and original novelist; establishes the work being read.
    Think you're starting go right ahead Fried Green Tomatoes at the whistle shop Whistle Stop Cafe screenplay by Fanny flag and John Abnet they on novel by Fanny flag exterior whistles shop Cafe present an open sheet of yellowed.
  • Brian Bates — Person · Character (referenced; owner of a club/venue in-story) · 4 mentions · first at
    Referenced by Reverend Scroggins as a ‘painted lady’ running a sinful place; appears in scenes at ‘Eva’s place’ with poker.
    Conation concentration have come over in a bus to testify on his behalf on her behalf Eva Bates with a purse and a flowered hat and three or four other dercks in the River Club stand up and wave the audience goes wild the judge gives up.
  • John Abnet — Person · Referenced screenwriter (source material credit) · 2 mentions · first at
    Credited alongside Fannie Flagg for the screenplay; establishes authorship of the script being read.
    Fried Green Tomatoes at the whistle shop Whistle Stop Cafe screenplay by Fanny flag and John Abnet they on novel by Fanny flag exterior whistles shop Cafe present an open sheet of yellowed newspapers slows down a deserted Street.
  • Curtis Smoot — Person · Character (referenced in cast list; not substantively read in provided excerpt) · 2 mentions · first at
    Named among roles; likely appears later in the screenplay reading though not developed in the provided segment.
    And yes my name is Tamir I go by he him I'll be reading for several characters including Ed buddy big George Julian Papa Leona and actions and descriptions in act two I'm not very social I love Montreal and yeah I hope you enjoy.
  • Naughty Bird — Person · Character (unclear/low-evidence in provided excerpt) · 12 mentions · first at
    Entity appears in the extracted list but is not clearly present in the provided transcript segment; may be a mishearing or later-scene character.
    Down the right of way the clatter is deafening alarmed by the sound the goat bolts a flock of birds fly out of the trees near the station but there is no train just a brown…

Books & papers

  • Fried Green Tomatoes — Book · Primary recommendation · 10 mentions · first at
    The book is the main subject of the podcast reading, discussed extensively throughout the episode.

Places & events

  • Whistle Stop Cafe — Place · Setting · 15 mentions · first at
    The cafe is a central location in the story, where many key events take place.
  • Rose Hills Nursing Home — Place · Setting · 10 mentions · first at
    A significant location where parts of the story unfold, particularly involving the character Evelyn.

Full transcript with timestamps

let me know if you can see it's on yes All Right awesome all right well Welcome to our reading of bried graen tomatoes one of my favorite shows um we've got a lovely cast this evening six of us today to read I'm so excited um we'll start with some really brief introductions um so know some folks have to leave early and then uh we'll jump right to the script so if you could just let us know your name what characters you're playing where you're from your pronouns and um how people can find you on social media we'll just go ahead and start with um Jackson well hello I'm Jackson uh gray you can find me on any socials with that I live in central Alberta um I go by any pronouns today I'll be playing Evelyn couch and a ton of other roles so it should be fun I'm excited awesome let's go to Vicki hello I'm Vicky Dykes I'm also in central Alberta but a different location penhold my pronouns are she her and I will be

reading ninnie and a few other C characters Defender defense lawyer mama uh sipy and a couple of smaller roles what else was it oh social media you can find me on Facebook Vicky dkes and I'm also on Instagram I'm yoga Grandma 10 awesome um let's go to Aubrey hi I'm Aubrey I go by any pronouns I don't care what they are my I I'm in California and the roles I am playing today are Grady Missy actions descriptions uh Frank and prosecutor what I'm doing hi oh on Instagram and and uh and YouTube and on Facebook sorry on Instagram you can find me at luthan theair and that's it sorry all right sounds good um Aaron and thenir I'm Aaron I am playing edgy tonight Fried Green Tomatoes is my all-time favorite movie so I had to hop in and uh you can find me on Instagram at aonb or Tik Tok at scarin Lis s c a r i n all right oh she her and uh yes my name is Tamir I go by he him I'll be reading for several

characters including Ed buddy big George Julian Papa Leona and actions and descriptions in act two um I'm not very social I love Montreal and yeah I hope hope you enjoy this reading all right and um your host this evening cat Wilson I live in Gig Harbor Washington my pronouns are she her uh tonight are be primarily playing Ruth as well as uh Eva and Smokey lome and probably catching some action subscriptions in the second half of the reading um we're all doing this as a cold read tonight because our cast list literally just came out just a few minutes ago so we're all going to have fun with this and we'll get dump right into it here so I'm going to go ahead and share my screen we'll get the script up um and then we'll talk a bit more afterwards um and see what we see what we think all right let's see script you can find it somewhere in here um there it is all right um let's see let's make

this a little larger how's that precise you want a little bit bigger than that or is that good it's good for me all right um and then so Aubrey I think you're starting go right ahead Fried Green Tomatoes at the whistle shop Whistle Stop Cafe screenplay by uh Fanny flag and John Abnet they on novel by Fanny flag exterior exterior whistles shop Cafe present an open sheet of yellowed newspapers slows down a deserted Street an old gray goat is grazing loose beside the old boarded up wood buildings alongside abandoned railroad tracks hold on one second there we go and put on that side all right let me start that again an old great goat is grazing loose besides old boarded up wood buildings alongside abandoned railroad tracks across the front of one building very faded a sign the Whistle Stop Cafe it is covered with Advertising Signs some cardboard some tin advertising everything possible to be bought or seen

from the 1930s to the 1960s a rusted awning hangs off opal's beauty shop next door this instantly the whistle of an approaching train flowering weeds grow profusely between the ties rails are rusted uh rusted the ties rotten a skew the clatter of a train approaching the whistle closer the clatter of Wheels louder tight on tracks as the ghost train flies by the wind sweeps aside uh the steam from the engine bows down the right of way the clatter is deafening alarmed by the sound the goat bolts a flock of birds fly out of the trees near the station but there is no train just a brown Ford LTD driving across the Barron tracks interior car day Evelyn couch she's a woman in her early 40s nervous and slightly overweight she holds a bouquet of flowers hearing a train whistle she turns around and looks over her right shoulder at the tracks Ed couch her husband has heard nothing did you hear that

what nothing I guess the wind blows but nothing is in sight Evelyn looks at a map where is Whistle Stop on the map I can't find it why you tell me to go right 10 miles back oh she smiles Polly he reaches for the map you got a negative sense of direction Ed gets out of the car with the map and tries to orient himself Evelyn Muses to herself you must you're right Ed that must be how I found you exteror Rose Hills Nursing Home day a sterile one-story cement block building in a semi-commercial area of Birmingham a handful of cars in the parking lot the brown LTD pulls in Ed and Evelyn get out and head for the front door in silence Evelyn carries the flowers he walks in the door and Evelyn follows interior front hall day Evelyn and Ed move through the lobby he hears the sounds of old people as they go down the hall sorry um coming toward them is Janine a nurse she's pushing an old man Mr dunway down

the hall he's laughing and grabbing at women as he passes by and wears thick glasses stop that Mr dunway you have such soft skin she smiles and gently removes his hand while when she notices Evelyn and Ned your aunt is all dressed up and waiting for you Mr couch be careful she's a little cranky this morning she bit my arm oh Lord Evelyn and Ed enter a room there is some racket from within and Evelyn hurries out of the room just as an object resembling a hairbrush flies past her head she Ducks then sigh to prepare for a an for a second attempt when why don't you wait outside if you think it's best have a nice day andun Vesta interor suum day EVN walks into a back visitor's Lounge that is empty except for one old lady in a faded sweater with a Christmas cro who is at a card table working a Last Supper jigsaw puzzle Evelyn unhappy sits down and takes a candy bar out of her purse just as she is about to take the first bite

of it the old woman speaks did you know they took my gallbladder out uh no I didn't yep it's still over at the hospital sitting in a jar I guess that's where they'll keep them I guess when I was in the hospital the nurse had just given me one of those Fleet enemas you know they're so fond of and when I noticed this medical chart next to my bed that said nin thread Goods 82 years old an 82-year-old Widow imagine that have you ever had one of those enimas well no you'd remember it my friend Mrs Otis and I were from mistle stop oh she's lived down the street for me for the past 30 years or so after her son died her daughter-in-law had a fit for her to come and and and live at the nursing home and and then they asked me to come with her and be her roommate Mrs Otis doesn't know it but I'm going back home just as soon as she gets settled in and good and then I reckon I'll visit her every day oh do a

name Iggy thread Goods ring a bell no I don't think so Evelyn Smiles Polly and stands up well you'd remember her you see I was practically adopted by the thread good family I married Cleo her brother she and her friend Ruth ran the Whistle Stop Cafe was a character all right but how anybody could have thought she murdered that man is beyond me I beg your pardon oh sit down and relax a spell sugar I'll tell you all about it let's see oh I remember the day they pulled that truck up out of the river dissolve into the past exterior Riverbank Whistle Stop 1938 a crowd of people have gathered around the riverbank a deputy from the sheriff's department gives a command a black truck is pulled out of the river it is Rusted and worn tight on a Georgia license plate a sheriff's car rolls to a halt and out walks Grady Kilgore a large ruddy-faced man he stares at the license plate and confers with his Deputy he is

not happy interior Whistle Stop Cafe Day music is playing on the radio the cafe is full of people laughing and having a good time over the cast register is a ratty deer head decorated with a railroad calendar hanging from its neck reading October 1938 ity Thor good a slender sorry the red good a slender good-looking woman in her 20s with sparkling eyes and short blonde hair busy playing poker Ruth a beautiful young woman with long dark hair tied back with a ribbon is watching igy carefully igy deals to all but herself Annie bets why don't you come hunting with us this weekend Ruth what have your hangover on Monday morning no thanks looks like mine again one second you say a full house Beats flush and a flush beatss a straight and a straight beats three of a kind yep now you in or out remember Ruth I didn't take any cards look at me ity thread good let me see your face you're bluffing again Grady walks in pay to see Ruth

aune's up y I've got to talk talk to you in private oh gry why don't you sit in and I'll deal you a new hand glattus won't mind before igy can undo the current hand Ruth turns over Iggy's hand revealing nothing not even Deuces Ruth reveals A Pair of Aces and then Smiles contently well I'm just trying to teach you not to fall for any tricks you're doing a great job ay smiles and leaves with Grady who tips his hat to exterior Cafe day a small green and white building with a white awning and a sign saying the Whistle Stop Cafe iy and Grady walk out together and move away from the cafe in Silence the only sound is a large black man in his 40s big George CH chopping wood iy senses that this is serious morning Grady good morning big George in the background is the town of Whistle Stop eight buildings in a railroad tracks it's bustling Grady stops at a secluded area by the tracks what's up W somebody found Frank Bennett truck in

the river and that godamn stupid Deputy of M sent it over to the W before I could even go out there God damn it what's going to happen now well officially you and big George are under arrest for murder you're on my custody until tomorrow I told them I'd bring you in over to Georgia first thing in the morning I figure that ought to give you enough time for what well some people have known to pack up and sneak right out of town in the middle of the night what about big George well I figure it if they got big George they'd be satisfied this is serious is we are talking about murder of a white man and somebody's going to have to pay but nobody wants to hang a woman but it suit them just fine and stretch some rope around Big George's neck I can't let him do that Grady now I know you feel how you feel about big George hell we all do that's just the facts of life I can't do that igy watches big GE

big George walking in the distance gry nods as igy walks over and Whispers to Big George and then looks over at Ruth who's watching from the cafe window interior sun room Same Day present so Iggy thread goods and big George went to jail for the murder of Frank bannett and that's a long story it sounds that way Evelyn goes into a purse and brings out two more candy bars and officers thanone would you like one oh thanks thank you honey did you take your gallbladder out too no PN stands to leave her purse Falls and she makes a gallant gesture to catch it but succeeds only in knocking the jigsa puzzle down to the floor I'm so sorry she starts to pick up the pieces oh don't worry about that honey I'll just visit more than a puzzle um I want to play some five card draw some St I don't play Evelyn is kneeling holding the pieces of the puzzle and trying to put it back together I hate Solitaire and that's all they play

around here oh Iggy you see had a mind of her own I guess in order to understand her you'd have to start way back with her brother buddy well higy was Buddy's pet from the day she was born the red good house day 1917 a big white house with a porch a handsome teenager buddy thread good runs into the house sporting formal wedding attire but carrying his coat with his shirt Tails hanging out come on buddy M wants you inside interior thread good house day I remember the day we were all getting ready for the wedding the war just ended the Great one you know Mama thread good a sweet looking woman examines Papa thread good suit he Sports a large handlebar mustache sipy the black housekeeper starts adjusting Papa's sleeve sipsy son big George is on a ladder hanging wedding decorations Leona the beautiful bride of to be at 18 is being attended to by her sisters Julian who is wearing a highly starched suit is leading his

brothers in rough housing Mama looks over her brood and sees Leona waiting to speak her place what is it Leona it is upstairs in a room and she says she won't come out as long as she lives oh she's going to ruin my wedding mama oh no she's not precious why Leona you're going to be the most beautiful bride in the entire state of Alabama just wait and see Mama goes to the bottom of the stairs buddy shows up winded emene Louise thread Goods this is your mother you come down here right this minute do you hear me buddy you go fetch her she'll listen to you all of a sudden igy appears on the top of the stairs where she stands as wly as she can be all eyes focus on her a huge bow is wrapped around her head and tight hied very badly her dress is starched painfully stiff the short skirt flares out over many pedos revealing Iggy's thin legs and skinned knees she has on white anklets and shiny black baby doll

shoes which are new and too tight come on down honey let's see you ity looks a buddy who nods encouragingly she starts down the stairs holding her skirt down delicately as she surveys her family a snake escapes Julian as he hums I see London I see France Etc buddy shoots him a look and igy freezes Julian now hush now oh come on sweetheart ity reaches the bottom of the stairs we see her elbows and legs are skinned Leona is horrified at the sight mama you look just fine didy she looks like a monkey ity runs at the mocking Julian and jumps and ripping her dress in the process buddy pulls her off and she runs out of the house stripping as she goes I'll get you back boy exterior thread good yard igy is up the tree in her underwear is sulking buddy climbs up the tree with the comfort and confidence of a cat he sits next to her iy is clearly upset there's a long beat as buddy contemplates his sister's prent

looks like you got yourself up a tree a little bit they ever make you wear a bow in your hair buddy not yet you're supposed to wrap it around till it hurts and stick pins into your brain ouch I'm sick of people making fun of me so you're going to stay put in this tree yep the hell with them who wants to wear that stupid old dress anyway after a moment we see she's not as tough as she pretends you want to be like Leona nope want to be like U nope besides you couldn't even if you tried you're special did I ever tell you about the oysters the oysters no well think about all the millions of oysters just lying around on the bottom of the ocean doing nothing just laying there then one day God looks around and he sees one and he says I think I'm going to make that one different and you know what he does he puts a little piece of sand in it now guess what it can do the others can't what can make a beautiful

pearl so you should never feel bad about being different because you are one one of the lucky ones that got picked do you think God makes mistakes the way I figure it he never makes mistakes he made sure we got together he made sure that you got the best looking most Charming brother in the world who's going to beat you to the chocolate cake buddy jumps down from the tree laughing at py HS you will not I get you out of the tree now didn't I did not she jumps on buddy who growls at her with monster noises ity shrieks with delight and runs off to the house buddy Smiles picks up her shoes slaps the SES together and then Lopes after his sister interior Church day the camera tracked slowly past the assembled family revealing one by one the thread Goods dressed in their finest including Julian who has a black eye finally the camera finds empty space and slowly drops down revealing igy dressed in a

gown velvet pants suit oh sorry igy dressed in a green velvet pants suit with a green velvet tie a smile plastered on her face do you Charles O good Justice take Lena Chapman thread good to be your lofly wedded wife as the ceremony continues Mama dabs her eyes while it G takes a small broken mirror and flashes a brilliant reflection on Reverend screen's face SC I think scren scr's face then iy turns the mirror which flashes on the cheek of a young and beautiful Ruth Jameson Ruth feels the light and turns in its direction and she sees buddy thread uh thread good who eyes her with love and admiration Mama without taking her eyes off the altar take takes hold of 's arm and tries to keep her from further Mission exterior thread good yard the whole town is there and everyone is congratulating Papa Mama is busy supervising the party sipy and big George are loading the tables which have been set up with food and iced tea buddy

with igy riding on his shoulders comes through the crowd all the young girls look at him and smile and giggle how don't you look beautiful today Lily yes Lily you look beautiful today Lily just blushes wildly I don't think there was ever a sweeter boy than buddy thread Goods he was a terrible flirt oh but his heart belonged to Ruth Janson oh she was a disant cousin of Mama's and had come all the way from Val dusta Georgia that summer to teach at the church school I remember how pretty she looked that day py climbs down off of Buddy's back and points out Ruth Jameson early 20 striking with long brown hair she is serving some punch Ruth Jameson you are just the one I've been looking for and begins to pour away gently not in public scrogin gives buddy a dirty look ity looks at scrogin like he's nuts buddy Just Smiles at the Reverend and slips his arm around Ruth's waist and starts to lead her

away let's find some place else to visit buddy I can't leave I'm serving oh it's too much loud here come on Reverend scrogin is talking to a group of women when ity walks by him and whatever you do don't think about them with no clothes on he smiles at the women and the Reverend looks at her with disdain exterior railroad tracks late afternoon the sound of a train in distance IGI is following Ruth who's following buddy who's walking backwards on the tracks talking ity finishes every second sentence for her brother and he smiles unruffled by her enthusiasm see that years ago that used to be a nice little Lake we'd swim in it fish I sure do miss it I sure do what happened to it did it dry up worse than that last fall a big flock of ducks about 40 or 50 landed right smack in the middle of that Lake and while they were sitting there a fluke thing happened the temperature dropped so fast the whole leg froze in three

seconds just like that buddy full of adolescent excitement snaps his fingers oh no those poor little ducks did it kill them nah they flew off and took the lake with them why to this very day that Lake somewhere over in Georgia I is delighted with this story she sits down and Tire shoe Ruth tries to hit buddy for fooling her exterior bushes day buddy kisses Ruth passionately she reciprocates her hat falls off igy looks at them from a distance shakes her head disparagingly and looks away exterior track trains later igy swings over the tracks on a rope that dangles from a nearby Branch Ruth hesitates excuse me Ruth hesitates and then buddy holds her and Swings with her she loves it her hat falls off again oh oh no budy kisses her and swings off after the Hat the train appears behind him at the turn approaching as the Hat skims across the tracks and slides under the rail the ribbons tangling in the

splintery ties buddy starts for the Hat clowning as the girls watch him from the distance he grabs it but gets his foot caught between two converging steel rails the train blows his warning signal iy yells for Buddies grabs his foot and tries to uny it oh no Didi and Ruth it still looks as if he's clowning in the dusty windy distance Budd he tugs and slips and he smiles at Ruth and igy as we hear the brakes being applied the Screech of metal on metal buddy just about has his shoe un tied when he pull and then he pulls free when he pulls free and stumbles on the gravel uh sorry gravel Mound that holds the railroad ties iy is jolted with fear and runs the Buddy yelling for him to get up exteror thread good yard shot at Mama as we hear the a frantic train whistle and a train screeched to a halt and a scream TI on Mama's eyes with Terror in them she clutches Si's arm oh God not one of my babies oh please

God wide angle of everyone in the yard dropping everything and running towards the accident exterior railroad tracks a group has gathered around Buddy's broken body in the outskirts of the crowd Julian is des desperately trying to pull hysterical igy away Ruth is Crying by the side of the tracks but she tries to hug idy who pushes her Brusly away let me go let me go ity you you no ity starts blindly to hit Ruth as if to beat away the truth Ruth tries to hold igy but she breaks away and runs calling buddy buddy long shot she pushes away pushes her way through the crowd we hear her heart breaking scream of pain as she reaches buddy she screams his name as if trying to bring him back to life buddy next year a cemetery day thread good family is assembled Ruth is in black and clearly distress Reverend scrogin is speaking at the funeral service oh it like to have killed us all but the one who took it the hardest was

Iggy oh we thought she'd die right along with him Ruth looks over igy as she stares at her with naked contempt Andie Bolts from the funeral group and runs off across the countryside Reverend pauses as mama and papa exchange looks zpy takes her hand from Big George's arm he nods and then heads after 's diminishing figure exterior Woods day igy running through the woods the twigs and brush lashing her her tender skin exterior River night Darkness virtual silence the river the only constant sound except for the occasional lonely hoot an now Silhouettes are the only visible shapes as the camera searches for life and finds the first a fire and then the hunt shape of big George nearby he gets up carrying a blanket and heads excuse me heads toward the diminutive figure of igy shivering by the river he drapes the blanket AC he drapes the blanket over her shoulders she nods of thanks to him and he goes

and sits by the fire the blanket falls off Iggy's shoulders and she does not notice big George gets up to repeat the gesture as the distant whale of the of a train Echoes through the night up you're muted Vicki you're muted Vicki you muted night after night she stayed by the river big George was the only Soul she'd let near her and he washed over her night and day you know a heart can be broken but it still keeps on beaten just the same here sunro Day present tied on Evelyn who was caught up in the story in spite of herself jigsaw pieces are now piled neatly on the table that's so so sad Evelyn Evelyn Evelyn looks up and sees Ed standing in the doorway she tries to hide her candy wrappers let's go the Braves game is going to start soon and you'll miss your thing excuse me that's my husband Ed he's ready to leave I can't believe buddy died oh neither could I oh well OB enjoyed talking to you

sugar what's your name Evelyn Evelyn couch I got to go well Evelyn you come back and see me are you here scaring after Ed huls back okay exterior Rose Hills Nursing Home day Evelyn and Ed exit the nursing home Evelyn is reflecting on unique story interior Church classroom night on the Blackboard romance magic nurturing there are 10 women in the class middle-aged to older each with a notebook or a tape recorder including Evelyn a young woman teacher nicely dressed is pacing across the front of the class intensely committed it is up to you to put romance back into your relationship dedicate yourself to finding ways to find magic in marriage when you think about romance what's the first thought that enters your mind a woman in her late 30s Missy leans over to Evelyn as the teacher drones on marriage counselors to tell you to wrap yourself in rra for a little charge into your marriage do we really pay for

these lectures Missy looks heavenward Evelyn has a far away look in her eyes she smiles interior couch house late afternoon candles are lit on the dinner table fresh flowers are in a vas or vas and five empty boxes of Saran Wrap are resting on a chair as a sixth box joins its ilk a doorbell rings Evelyn opens the door ever so slightly with anticipation written all over her face Ed sees her and his jaw drops she's wearing only ranra Ed looks around to see if any of his neighbors are watching and shows her quickly back into the house good God Evin have you gone insane people are going to see you what have I been the paper boy interior Church classroom same night Evelyn is D daydreaming away as the class starts emptying out the lecture is finished Evelyn Evelyn Evelyn comes out for r what we really need instead of this baloney is an assertiveness training class for southern women but that's a

contradiction in ter there especially you swee exterior couch house later that day an undistinguished tracked house the brown LTD pulls into the D driveway and gets out with his briefcase heads for the door there are children in yards women with groceries talking to each other men with head Clippers Ed opens the door interior Couch home day Evelyn has set the table nicely with fresh flowers lit candles and has a multi-course meal on the table waiting only she's not dressed in San wrap but in a nice outfit she has made a real effort Ed drops his briefcase grabs his plate and heads to the television set and turns on the ball game Evelyn is deflated why don't you sit at the table and have a dinner with me sorry honey the game's all almost over why are you so dressed up Ed if I answered the door wearing only Shon rap Saran rap would you still be watching the baseball game no I'll be checking you into looney

bin Evelyn reflects on his response and then begins to eat exterior Rose Hills Nursing Home day close on a box of donuts a hand pulls them out of a car and we reveal Evelyn carrying flowers to go with her snacks she and Ed head in silence towards the cement structure interior nursing home day Ed enters his aunt's room Evelyn takes a deep breath and plasters a smile on her face and enters and exits with two objects barely missing her head I'm glad you're feeling better on fessie good thing her eyesight's falling failing into your sunum day Evelyn is sitting alone in the sunro with a blank look on her face eating out of a huge box of donuts nin sponsor hello jumps she is so startled and nearly dumps her Donuts Evelyn tries to regain her composure hi yeah I was hoping you would come oh my roommate Mrs Oda said I could visit with her and her family but I said thank you kindly but I think I might

have my own visitor and here you are hope you like donuts Mrs three good oh visitor and donuts to boot now you can't beat that oh you can call me ninny everyone else does I mean it makes me feel modern how's your friend doing Mrs Otis oh well not so good it looks like I won't be getting back home for a while and I sure miss it it's funny what you'll miss with you're away from home I miss the smell of coffee in bacon frying I can't smell a thing they got cook in here oh what I wouldn't give for a plate of fried green tomatoes like the ones I used to have at the cafe oh after buddy died Iggy just tempted the good Lord to take her away C to the Past exterior Whistle Stop train tracks Dawn 1926 Iggy is jumping from freight car to freight car she's in her late 10 teens but looks younger she's agile and graceful a wild look in her eyes the more dangerous the stunt the more laughter it provokes from her she climbs

down into a freay car and starts dumping something overboard she hardly ever came home only big George knew how to find her and then one summer day Mama sent for her oh like they say God never shuts one door without opening another exterior thread good yard date 1926 Iggy dressed in ratty overalls and Barefoot is walking up to the house with a string of fish over her back and a fruit jar of honey it's a beautiful spring day Mama Mama and sipy are watering the ferns Mama's eyes light up when she hears I's voice mama no out here igy comes out and mama gives her a kiss well it's about time well if you don't look like the Wild Man of Borneo well guess who's here who oh Ruth Jameson oh she's come all the way over from Valdosta Georgia oh she's staying with us this summer and will be in charge of all the young people's activities over at the church is that why you wanted to see me well we've got so many nice things

planned Ruth jamson comes to the screen door she's older now but very beautiful in a white dress Ruth you remember my youngest child of course I do hi Edy what are what are you doing here yeah I just told you Ruth staying here helping out at the church she runs off maybe this isn't such a good idea she'll get used to you Lord honey pay attention now mamath bed good closes her eyes in horror as we hear in the distance the sound of yelling and horn blowing as the truck drives away interior Church mama papa Ruth and the entire thread good clan minusy of course are present Reverend scroggin is speaking snakes and serpents take many disguises why just 10 miles away down by the river there lurks a den of the devil filled with maggots and of evil well liquor and sin abide run by paint by a painted lady ever baates a sister of Satan where unspeakable acts lust and degration de degrading are performed every

night exterior Whistle Stop Baptist Church Sunday service a sign says Reverend scroggin preaching on why did Noah let two snakes on the boat when he had a chance to get rid of them once in for all we see igy now early 20s and some bumy looking friends hanging out the window of a pickup truck as it drives by hey scroggin you're finally preaching about something you're kin to snakes interior whistle St Baptist Church Sunday service mama papa and Ruth exchanged looks of concern Mama Whispers something to Ruth exterior winding dirt road night big George is driving through the woods with Ruth interior of her Club igy sits smoking her cigarettes looking like the cat that just swallowed the canary I'll see you and raise you 20 gr eyes are suspiciously i p nobody again y'all just bluffing again as usual you don't have nothing well maybe I do and maybe I don't but now it's going to cost you 30 cents to find

out light on 's hand she has three Aces and a pair of tens Ruth enters the screen door and shades her eyes excuse me is igy rad good here by any chance do we have an Eva that's probably me too come on in Honey she's right here as she walks over to the table everyone is startled to see such a fine lady dressed in white in this place the men make a feeble attempt at standing and tipping their hats what the hell are you doing here I came to talk to you well you'll have to wait I'm busy pull up a chair and have a seat honey can I get you a beer oh no thank you I'll just stand here and wait if you don't mind come on Grady here's your big chance are you in or out everyone at the table is very uncomfortable at having Ruth there and one by one the men throw their cards on the table waiting for something to happen Ruth goes over and starts picking up 's money I'm afraid you'll have to excuse igy she's going home for dinner

what the hell are you doing nice meeting you say goodbye Edy all nod and Mumble something is Ruth heads out the door with a dumbfounded igy right behind her where are you going with my money we are going home well who the hell are you to boss me around I'm the one who's taking you home that's who exterior River Club night they head to the truck and igy sees big George thanks a lot pal give me my money back now get in the car ity opens the door and gets in the car and slides through to the other side she opens the passenger door and gets out as Ruth is getting in hiji slams the door and walks off I'll leave here when I'm good and well and want to have a nice trip home big George shakes his head oh Lord Ruth getss after itching I just don't know how you can break your mother's heart like you do well I'm not doing anything to my mother oh no why do you think I'm over here for the summer your mother was so worried about you

because she thought I was a teacher I might be able to talk some sense into you but I can't even find you mostly you're too busy feeling sorry for yourself what are you talking about itchy you are not the only one you lost buddy iy freezes at the mention of his name for a moment then turns and walks away while Ruth stands are ground buddy is dead we all miss him but by turn but turning your back on your family is not gonna bring him back ity gives Ruth a deadly stare who the hell are you to talk about my brother if it hadn't been for you in the first place you just mind your own goddamn business and give me my money back Ruth drops the money and heads back to the truck it's here thre good house day Ruth walks in the dining room and shakes her head no father we thank you for this Bountiful table and this family Keep Us Safe close to thy bosom amen into your kitchen later the same night Mama is bringing the of dessert

back the kitchen when she spies igy walking in the back way Mama Smiles interior dining area the meal is just about over but Mama comes in carrying enough food for one more plate which is sipy which sipsy sets right next to Ruth can we be excused now but mama no young lady no one understands Mama's reaction until Edy makes her appearance her hair is slicked down and she sits down as if it's no big deal everyone is staring at her there is silence as Mama starts to serve iy could you please pass me the tomatoes they look awfully good ity looks up and sees the tomatoes right in front of her and quickly Picks Them Up and passes them but the plate tips and one goes flying in the air iy puts the plate down with one hand and catches the Aon tomato with the other as if perfectly planned Ruth Smiles at her thank you ity goes about her business as the rest of the family just stare in amazement Julian starts to laugh where

you laughing at you 's eyes narrow at Julian and then she swings at camera exterior Church dust Julian walks out of the building with a serious bruise on his cheek and glares at igy Ruth walks outside and igy comes up to her I was thinking about some of the things you were saying and I'd like to show you something what is it let me show you you got to hurry though they start walking briskly towards the railroad tracks exterior railroad tracks dusk they approach a train and igy sneaks up to a box car she pulls out a large pry bar and wedges open the door and hops up hop in hop oh give me your hand igy pulls Ruth up into the car well look at all this we see cans and produce of the day stacked inside the car it's all very nice but I don't understand why you brought me here we hear the train whistle blow and then the train starts to move Ruth is surprised well you said I was selfish and I'm going to show you that you were

wrong don't you think we should get off the train this is something Buddy and I used to do Ruth looks out the train and she looks a little queasy y all right well sometimes I get a little dizzy looking down don't look down Ruth Smiles politely as igy lifts up a handful of cans and food stuffs and walks to the open area of the car she starts tossing them out the door what are you doing come look Ruth hases not relish the idea of going so close to the edge but she steals herself and looks out and sees the hungry faces of poor black families and migrant workers who are waiting anxiously for 's gifts you talk about give unto others yes but this food isn't yours to give oh that's Church talk well I've seen those same people who were on their knees at church on Sunday over at Evas on Monday on their knees again but praying to a different God iy throws out an armful of food as the children Scurry for it and some of

the men about some shouts thanks railroad Bill come on help Ruth is in a quandry but one more look at those hungry faces outside and Ruth begins to help too all right time to get off Ruth again is puzzled the train comes out of the tunnel all right jump jump yeah jump the next stop is five miles down the tracks I don't want to walk that far back now jump you're crazy you really want to get rid of me I really want you to jump so we don't have to walk too far our back you blame me don't you you really do it I didn't kill buddy you make me feel like I did you want to hurt me because I want to help you fine you win I'll tell Mama I can't handle you and I'll head back to Vala right away you'll never jump will you don't say never to me Ruth jumps and an impressed igy follow suit they both hit the ground and roll Ruth dusts herself off gets up and walks toward the tracks to head back home when she notices that igy isn't

moving very much in fact she's very much in pain are you all right I'm fine she tries to stand and crumbles in pain to the ground I'm all right Ruth looks at her leg and it's quite obviously hurt Ruth rips some cloth out of her dress and wraps it around the wounded leg I have to get you to the doctor which way is it it's about 2 miles if you follow the tracks well let's go Ruth tries to pick itg up but it's very difficult and painful you'll never be able to carry me that far I know never ever say never I'm not carrying you you're walking with great effort Ruth lifts igy up pleas her arm around her and igy hops as Ruth walks slowly I can't tell you damn I'm I'm really sorry about this Ruth approaches the traps and slowly starts to trudge home interior church school Ruth is reading from thorough and the camera pulls back from her revealing a full house and then it tilts down and tracks past the shoes of the students Polished

in nice order and one one by one until it goes outside the classroom and comes to rest on a bandaged leg Hammer cranes up to reveal igy who listens to Ruth read about the sounds of nature isolation and Beauty interior Julian and Cleo's room both boys are asleep sound of morning Birds tripping a goes through the pockets of a pair of pants finds nothing then eases the top drawer of the dresser open enough to slip her hand in Smiles as her hand finds a set of C Keys exterior roof a crawls along a gutter connection that nearly gives way under her weight it is rather difficult with her leg bandaged she scramble scrambles to a more secure area drops to another section of roof Taps on a closed window of Buddy's old room nothings again igy opens the window she Whispers aren't you ready yet I'm ready Ruth tries to get out of bed gets Tangled and crashes to the floor Edy has to suppress a laugh this doesn't have

anything to do with trains does it no I told you that I wanted to show you something before you go it's a surprise Julian even loaded me the keys to his car sipsy made us a picnic exterior backwards 's driving jul old model te along the dusty narrow road exterior Meadow day they exited the car you don't have a license do you Julian didn't loan you this car you stole the keys ay glances at Ruth to see how mad she is I want to show you something something that guy thorough you were talking about with like you got to swear you'll never tell another living Soul about it exas spred Ruth walks out of the woods into a lovely sunlit Meadow Ruth carries the picnic basket igy hobbles along and carries a blanket there's a fallen tree at the far end of the meadow igy drops the blanket under an old shade tree takes an empty jelly jar out of the picnic basket stay here no matter what happens don't move and be quiet don't

make any noise whatever you do what are you going to do igy heads for the fallen tree halfway there she glances back to see if Ruth is watching she is igy approaches the tree humming softly and eases her jar into the hollow in the tree exterior beet tree a swarm of Angry Birds burst out of the tree and completely cover iy Ruth is scared out of her wits iy humming pulls the Jar full of honey and honeycomb out of the tree and very quietly starts walking back toward Ruth completely covered with bees as she walks softly away from the tree the bees begin to peel off and return to their hives when she gets back to Ruth there are only a half a dozen bees left in her hair here Madam this is for you she hands the jar to Ruth Ruth looks down and doesn't take the jar why you do that sh quiet you frighten the bees you could have been killed oh I do it all the time I never get stung I'm sorry don't you want the

honey I don't be mad at me Ruth I just wanted to give you a going away present mad oh please don't be mad at me the peas won't sting unless you stir them up they'll give you there honey you're the only person that it just now very upset Ruth puts her arms around ity oh ity I'm not mad at you butd he loved you didn't he do you still think about him all the time so do I he brought me here he taught me how to listen to the bees how to get the honey is it bad what I did no I thought it might be crazy or something no no no I heard there were people who could charm bees but I've never seen it before today Ed just starts to smile you like me don't you yes that's good I like you too a lot are you really going home right away Summer's hardly begun are you going to promise to be real sweet to your mama from now on you know Ruth I would kill for you if anybody ever hurt you you well it's a terrible thing to say no it isn't I'd

rather kill for love than hate wouldn't you laughs how else do you respond to this one you're just a be CH ity rad good that's what you are be CH Edy puts her finger in the fresh honey tastes it and smiles you want to taste it Ruth nods and iy Scoops some more on her finger and offers it to Ruth who tastes the honey later same location a soul bee buzzes around an empty Honey Jar the camera Glides over to Ruth who is sleeping peacefully and then reveals iy also resting the women are like two mirror images 's eyes open you up S you have the most beautiful scent it's perfume it's imported from Paris friends smells like lilac and wild berries what did you and Buddy talk about mostly you and the future having a family and starting a business one where people could get together and have a good time you know what disturbs me I can't can't remember his smell tell me everything you know about Buddy a river club night iy and Ruth

walk into a darkened building when the lights come on and Sur all the guys from the camp start singing happy birthday to Ruth who is overwhelmed it she thread good but now tonight we're going to have a real party drink this and then we'll play some poker I'm sorry I don't know how to play poker and I never drink exterior River Club night camera tracks past an unfinished card game past empty liquor bottles towards two old pickups that have their lights turned on and we are watching one of the first night baseball games ever played in the South 's pitching and Ruth is the Umpire Grady is at bat igy throws a pitch two are you crazy that pitch was outside about three feet don't argue with the referee it's umire I don't argue with him either Grady shakes his head as Ruth takes a swig out of coke bottle and swallows with difficulty a is grinning something fierce Smiles winds up and delivers the ball hits the dirt and

bounces straight over the plate St you're out ball bounced in front of the plate it did oh look what you created edgy Grady drops the bat and heads behind the plate you're up now Ruth I don't know how to B and you never drink either just hold the bat and swing I'll pitch it easy to you Grady helps her hold the bat and she stands wobbly at the plate and iy lathers up the ball and prepares to pitch what she doing to the ball Grady what's she doing to the ball better igy pitches and Ruth swings or the ball hits the bat but it goes way into the night and the game that Ball's lost you ever skinny dipped in a river by Moonlight later that night by the river Edy Smiles as Ruth and near tears plays poker they're both in wet clothing I never had so much fun in my whole life I even got a home run but clean wanted that straight beats three of a kind you know hon have bad oh would you what's your mother

going to say when she sees us both drunk it's about time you cross the line you've always done the right thing you take care of your daddy the preacher when he took sick you take care of all the kids at the church school and you're going to take care of your mother that's right and I'm going to marry the man I'm supposed to I've never really had this much fun Ruth reaches for her Coke bottle and Edy takes it away from her that's enough fun for one night you're gonna get married soon as the Summer's over why spoil the fun do you love him everybody in valasta loves him and he's done so much for Mama he's the one who gave me that French perfume you like so much well you got to do what you've got to do I guess we both get you home oh I am going to miss you this is the best birthday I've ever hand exterior thread good house day mama is by the car which is packed with Ruth's possessions she looks worried a handsome

man with slick back black hair waist and patiently he is Frank Bennett interior Edy's room day 's sitting on the side of her bed staring out the window at this man Ruth knocks come in time to go I know it's hard to believe the Summer's over isn't it yeah well it's always difficult to say goodbye you don't have to I know why you're leaving I understand that your mother needs you to take care of her and that your fiance what's his name Frank Bennett is waiting for you I understand thanks for everything but I want to thank you also you're very special itchy thread good are you sure you're okay yes I'm fine can't you see I'm smiling you you better go or you'll be late bye so long Ruth exits the room and iy remains motionless and then throws a glass item against the wall and it breaks Ruth reenters iy you're really going to marry that weasel out there aren't you don't talk like that why are you

marrying him because I want to that's why she touched another object into the wall you don't love him you don't you know you don't you really want to stay here with us I know you do we love you oh ity you're not being practical then tell me you love him I gotta go see you're liar not me and I hate you and I hope you die I don't ever want to see you again as long as I live I hate you liar she grabs her by the shoulders and shakes her stop it I hope you rot in hell Ruth slaps her hard across the face iy looks at her speechless stunned Ruth nearly takes her in her arms but at the last minute without touching her turns and walks out closing the door softly exterior Highway a series of shots of igy driving Julian's model tea at night and at dawn exterior of alasta Georgia day a small town much prettier than Whistle Stop the General Store a drug store a barber shop and a post office on a square with a beautiful Church on one

side the thread good model te chugs into town parks at the store with the church in view exterior Valdosta Baptist Church a beautiful summer Day fruit trees blossoming birds singing the church is overflowing with well-dressed people across the yard Julian's model te parked in among the trees nearly invisible 's curled up in the front seat drinking whiskey she is very drunk and very miserable we hear muffled strains of the organ coming from the church the door flies open and people burst out the door a beautiful Ruth and good-looking Frank come down the stairs followed by Ruth's mother people gather around them throwing rice much noise Frank takes Ruth's mom by the hand and gives her a big hug and kiss she blushes as Frank Whispers something to her which she which makes her smile and wave off with her hand Frank jumps into the car with Ruth and heads off ay sits up and in her drunken stuper murmurs

goodbye to Ruth just as the car disappears around the corner Missy's home night the children's furniture is pushed to the side eight youngish women are sitting on exercise mats on the floor and are all in slacks and Evelyn looking younger and with a different hairstyle in stockings high heels and a dress the teacher is Young and serious and is handing out mirrors so during these next few weeks we will be learning to reclaim our own power as women tonight we are going to begin to explore our femaleness by examining the source of our strength and our separateness our vaginas Evelyn draws in a breath of alarm Peaks at missy who looks like the others isn't the least bit shocked so if you all slip off your panties and straddle your mirrors Missy and the other women are doing just as they are told Evelyn struggles to her feet deeply embarrassed um Mrs couch I need to be excused for a moment Missy won't you come won't you come to

the lady's room with me Missy stares at her sympathetically but unsure of what to do do you find this threatening no I well I I don't realize your sexuality no ma'am but I do have a problem with my riddle Evelyn walks out of the house interior couch house night present Ed walks in and startles Evelyn who immediately starts to tidy up the immaculate dinner table as his is his custom he takes his food and heads to the television Evelyn scrambles after his him and bring bringing him his drink Ed those classes I've been going to forever aren't helping us one bit let's drive to Florida like when we got married Kylie's gone and busy with her own his own life it's being just the two of us it's just the two of us here this chicken is great what thank you well we could rent a boat and drift around in the hot sun what do you think about that I'm just getting used to it being quiet in here and don't go to those

classes if they aren't helping you damn the game's rained out interior Rose Hills Nursing home entry day Evelyn enters and is joined by Janine the two of them walked down the hallway hey Mrs couch how are you fine how are you oh dead on my feet we lost two of them last night not within 5 minutes of each other of course the worst part is trying to get them down the hall so it won't upset the others we try and pile laundry on top of them but they know you can't disguise a dead body no matter what you do Evelyn who is carrying a bag of treats for the aunt stops at her door and very care y places it inside the doorway Evelyn and Janine both quickly Dart past the door and to their surprise nothing comes flying out maybe she's feeling better they exchange a look when they see Miss Mr Dunaway Dressed to Kill Wheeling himself slowly into the aunt's room only to come rolling out at high speed nearly

toppling with the contents of Evelyn's bag of treats following soon after him Evelyn and Janine smile maybe she's not wait till you see Mrs thread good interior sun room day Janine leaves and Evelyn enters and spots ninny Su is dyed her hair bright purple do you like it I I want to look my best for Easter H who did it for you darling well believe it or not it was a student a little bitty person almost a mget from the beauty college well sometimes they come out and do our hair for free just to get a little practice is Ed with you Evelyn hands ninny a chocolate bunny just me alone his aunt told him she didn't want any visitors especially us it's a shame I think he feels bad but Lord if he's if he'll talk to me about it since our son KY grew up and left home he hardly talks to me at all even during dinner well maybe you should spice up his food that'll get his attention well Evelyn takes a bite out of her

chocolate bunny and Ninny decapitates hers you never finished telling me about igy well oh let's see oh where were we oh Ruth had just gotten married to Frank Bennett wasn't that the name of the man who uh that Mur uh that igy was arrested for murder that's right well of course after Ruth left igy just went back to her old ways it took her a few years but she finally decided to bury the hatchet to go see Ruth cut to the Past exterior Big George's house day big George enters with a large package interior Big George's house day big George goes into a back room where iy is uh sleeping on an old couch with a t idled Empty Bottle near her head he drops the package off and starts to leave the room when igy opens one eye I didn't want to wake you miss igy but it's a full day's drive to Valdosta and your mama says if you going all the way to vosta then she wants you to give his pie to Ruth how'd she know where I was going

and sipsy walks in oh she know oh so how don't don't go stirring up no trouble with Miss Ruth you here exterior vosta day igy in a model te driving up a dusty road leading to a large Farmhouse igy gets out of the car she is Slender and has grown quite attractive three hound dogs are jumping up on her barking trying to be petted and she knocks at the door a frail old lady uh comes and opens the door are uh is Ruth at home who's calling uh just tell her it's the bee charmer from Alabama Ruth it's some be person here to see you edgy nervously Waits and looks around the front porch and at the land in the distance and through the screen door we see Ruth coming to the door opening it and when she sees igy she's startled igy Ruth stands silhouetted by the door her face in Shadow something's not right H mama said to give you this pie look uh what I said about rotten in hell I I don't hate you I think you're probably

the finest person I've ever met so I'm sorry we all miss you and Mom and papa will welcome you back for a visit anytime you drove how many hours to apologize ity rad good how are you you look so so grown up tell me do you have a fell yet couple but I can't decide on any Grady is the most persistent but gr Kilgore oh don't say it so loud how come you don't ride at all even the Ruth Hears A noise from inside the house as she turns the light strikes her face and reveals the black eye there is no activity inside the house are you all right yes I'm fine you don't look fine where'd you get the Shiner Who's down there well thanks for the pie well I guess you better go he didn't hit you did he you better be going now did he hit you well I'm gonna beat him to a pulp you're not going to do anything you hear now please ity just leave if you care about me if you really do you'll turn around and leave this minute Ruth

releases igy who looks at Ruth unable to comprehend why she is stopping her and finally gives in and heads back to her car Frank's house boy walks around the corner of the house and watch Es as ity turns around and yells to Frank Bennett you touch her again you bastard and I'll tell your eyes out and kill you quicker than you can say Custer Frank arrives at the door toweling his wet head he sees the pie in Ruth's hand say about gustard nothing interior River Club night a jukebox is plain and sad music laughter can be heard As Eva baits is playing poker with the ball gry comes over really friendly igy gry you've been ducking me what do you say I say hey this is a bad time to be bugging me oh you don't have you don't want to marry me Grady Kilgore you lost your mind go marry glattus Moes she just adores you I'm not asking her I'm asking you to be my wife what are you going to be thinking when someone out fishing and drinking

with someone other than you you're going to be thinking you ow me and you want me and you're going to be matter than a wet hen a cute guy named Kirby walks by and Links at igy and Grady notices who is that you not from around these parts just someone who's real good with a rifle see Grady you're not even married and you're already jealous I'm not jealous you're just a goofy girl that you thread good ity jumps Grady and knocks him to the floor Who you calling a goof you now stop it it before I get mad and I'll hurt you oh just try it they wrestle some more rolling around until Grady gets on top of her and pins her with his considerable weight to the ground but iy just refuses to stop struggling give up never stop it igy okay okay just let me up gry let's go and ity just jumps him again and once more Grady pins are on the ground his face rened and closed to hers don't pull that again then you better keep me down

for the rest of your life cuz I'll never give in to you gry finally got exhausted and gave up try and say might none of these fellas at Eva's Place could tame Iggy for any length of time well about a year later A letter came from Ruth interior thread good h house kitchen simpy is baking igy runs to the door and Mama nods towards Big George Who holds a letter igy pulls out a newspaper clipping and a torn page from the Bible what's this this isn't a letter Mama puts on her glasses I'll bring it here she looks at igy and begins to read the newspaper clipping oh this is roose's Mother's obituary oh she died last month oh no oh and this is from the Bible oh from The Book of Ruth oh she's underline something for you and Ruth said whether thou goest I will go and where thou longest I will large oh largest yeah I will large and thy people shall be my people 's eyes meet mam exterior near V daa day country road over her head shot

of car and truck exterior Bennett house day on the horizon the truck and car come down the road and pull up to a stop igy gets out of the car and igy heads towards the house as big George and Julian stand by the truck interior Bennett house igy goes up the stairs to Ruth their eyes meet for the first time and after a moment Mama died I know and I'm pregnant Ruth breaks into tears and iy puts her arms around her and cradles her exterior Bennett house later Frank Bennet drives up and notices a truck at his front door interior Bennett house igy is quickly packing up one of Ruth's last remaining boxes igy hollers up to Big George and Julian the rest of her stuff's upstairs big George and Julian head upstairs are you sure we're doing the right thing do you want to raise your child Frank I couldn't but you haven't even talked this over with Mama and Papa oh mama loves babies and Papa loves mama why hell the way I figure

we're getting two for the prize of one Julian and Cleo are coming downstairs with the trunk and head out the front door when Frank comes in the back door with his Hound what the hell's going on here looks like your wife's leaving you mister Frank looks at igy who the hell are you I'm the one she's leaving with P brain Frank grabs Ruth by the shoulders to pull her away but Ruth resists and Frank slaps her across the face knocking her backwards iy immediately jumps Frank riding him like he's some wild horse she's tamed well Frank spins igy around until he flings her off sending her crashing into the wall come here you touch her again and I'll kill you she doesn't move igy is breathing like a wild cat and is preparing to pounce on Frank as he slowly approaches Ruth he reaches out for Ruth and igy again jumps him and he backs her into the wall crushing her like a grape Ruth runs at him don't hurt

her Ruth tries to push Frank away but he grabs her and slings her over his shoulder starts heading up the stairs when Julian and big George enter I want to go up those stairs Mister it might upset big George big George picks up a large knife and in one swift movement he cores an apple never looking at Frank who stares at him motionless he's crazy no telling what he's liable to do Frank hesitates for a second and slowly lets Ruth down let's go I'll get you for this you'll see they exit the house exterior house day they Scurry to the car igy starts the car and starts to drive off interior car well I sure as hell scared him didn't I to Wanda the amazing Amazon woman alone in the jungle afraid of nothing that prows this Earth woman Beyond Compare Ruth joins her in nervous laughter as they head towards Whistle Stop interior Supermarket Day present close on Evelyn staring at an issue of the national Inquirer headline wife

kills husband and sells his body parts to aliens that's Missy there women's voice Evelyn Evelyn reveal Evelyn at the checkout counters talking to Missy her acquaintance from the women's seminars oh I'm sorry I was just looking at those photos Missy they have the greatest stories and magazines don't they where will I see you in group tonight we we be we'll be talking about masturbation thank you but I've had enough learning for the time being Evelyn takes her packet and heads for the door as she starts out the exit only a teenage boy with a scraggly uh beard and mean eyes shoulders in bumping into Evelyn knocking her back against the dog food well excuse me uh [ __ ] you Evelyn is stunned as the boy strides over to the liquor counter Evelyn gets herself together as the Boy comes back towards her there was no reason for you to come be so rude back there you were coming in the wrong door oh get the hell away from me you fat cow

he heads for the exit with a six-pack what did you just call me the boy exits fast Evelyn pursues exterior parking lot day the boy climbs into a battered pickup with fat tires and a tough girl in the passenger seat Evelyn is on her his heels her groceries in her arms what did do why did you call me that what have I ever done to you why are you being so mean to me eat it your [ __ ] the boy jams the truck into gear backs out fast tired squealing girl laughing eln tries to follow him as she runs her bag breaks groceries spilling all over the pavement interior Rose Hills Nursing Home Hall day ninny walks through the visiting Wing an old man is sitting in a wheelchair ninny stops how you are doing today Mr duno you have the most beautiful eyes ninny continues around to the side Corridor that is deserted except for a few rows of Walkers and wheelchairs she finds Evelyn Sitting all by herself in a

wheelchair with big tears running down her face eating a baby ruth oh honey what in the world is the matter I don't know she continues to cry and eat her candy oh come on I'm need some exercise now tell me what's bothering you sugar I just feel so usess so powerless oh everybody goes through that and I can't stop eating every day I try and try and every day I get off hide candy bars all over the house a candy bars not going to hurt you one no but not 10 or 11 and I can't even look at my own vagina oh now honey oh I can't help you on that one they go outside and continue rolling around Evelyn gives ninny a box of Cracker Jacks I wish I had the courage to get it over with and get really and get really fat oh Mrs red good I'm too old to be young and too young to be old maybe I'm just crazy you getting hot flashes well sometimes do you get the sweats on your heart starts pounding how did you know oh it's simple

honey you're just going through the change I used to burst into tears for no reason at all oh you need some hormones and maybe some stress tabs and number 10 for good measure really is that all yes honey oh you just get yourself some hormones and then you get out of the house and get yourself a job oh and with your pretty complexion I'll bet she'll be great with Mary Kate Cosmetics I know how you feel I was about your age when I had my child and then I went through the change of life I didn't know you had a child oh yes yes I did oh his name was Albert oh he was a bir injured child so I had him with me until he was 30 and then he just went to sleep and never woke up she puts the picture back on the dresser the doctor said that it would be best if he didn't even see if if I didn't even see him at all well he said because of an injury his mind would never develop past the age of five and and that I

should put him in a institution because the burden of a raising a child like that would be too great I thought about Ruth oh she called children little gifts from above I just smiled master I asked for the baby oh how could that sweet precious baby ever be a burden why from the minute he was born Albert was the joy of my life oh the Lord's greatest gift and there wasn't a pure soul that ever lived on this earth oh sometimes I just can't wait to get to heaven and see him ninny digs in her crackjack box and pulls out a small prize as Evelyn looks at her loving oh Evelyn look a little chicken just what I like interior thread good kitchen day 1932 oh [ __ ] it's air everyone jumps for Joy everyone includes Eva Reverend scroggin Julian Brady Pete a baby's whale is heard in the distance hot Dam as they all slap each other the Reverend tries in vain to retain his dignity Julian pours whiskey into their

teacups I think a little prayer I thank Thanksgiving would be godamn it to Hell son of a [ __ ] she did it here's the Ruth everybody picks up a Teacup to Ruth they all drink best goddamn tea in the steep interior bedroom day Ruth is sitting up in bed with a blue ribbon tied around her head looking beautiful mama papa and IG igy are gathered around the bassinet looking at the baby oh here he is just look at that precious boy oh look at that papa papa looks I pick him up of course she does so G careful hi little fellow what's his name well I discussed it with Mama and Papa and I like to call him buddy junor if it's all right with you iy stops rocking the baby and is clearly moved try not to cry yeah that's just fine with me hey there little buddy buddy thread good yeah that's just fine she looks back at Ruth and smiles Mama tugs at Papa's sleeve with little buddy well here now Papa go on oh well now that you girls have this

responsibility and 's been wanting to open up a cafe well we thought Papa's giving you money to help you get a head start thanks Papa exterior Whistle Stop day ity is painting Whistle Stop Cafe on a sign and Julian and big George are carrying a stove in while sipy and Ruth watch directing sipy is sweeping Ruth is planting rose bushes interior Cafe day fber McGee and Molly is on the radio the place is full of Railroad Man isy is serving a big table full of men including Grady Pete Wilbur and Julian a stranger comes in the door and nervously walks up to iy he is wearing a worn out dirty jacket frayed brown shirt crack leather laceless shoes his name is Smokey Lonesome miss you w happen to know where you could buy a p in this town you mean liquor we can't sell that stuff here but you go straight up that street to that Greenhouse that says Scoggin he'll sell you some and don't let him tell you he's

really a preacher that's just his cover yes sir he's got the best stuff in the seate of Alabama thanks he heads across the street to Reverend scrogin Place everyone in the cafe watches as scrogin reacts with Fury the cafe boys laugh and smile that's a 10 time you've done that it works every time can I have another plate of those Tomatoes I don't know why you torture that poor Reverend so just keep in mind that I have to go to church there exterior Whistle Stop Cafe day Smokey walks away from the Reverend disappointed with the results he walks right past a pickup truck in which sits one Frank Bennett Frank watches Smokey head back to the cafe he sees big George chopping wood and then igy come out to the door to greet the Smokey and Frank shakes his head she's the one a train passes by obscuring his view interior Whistle Stop Cafe day Smokey returns to the door of the cafe excuse me ma'am I was wondering if

you might have an odd job or something I might do I've had a run of bad luck lately a come on in fella I think we can find something for you what's your name Smokey man my friends call me smokey Lonesome well Ruth this here is Smoky and he's going to be doing some work for us well that's fine nice to meet you why don't you go over there and freshen up and then come have a bite to eat thank you ma'am interior bathroom day Smokey grabs a big bar of brown oxidil soap stares at it quizzically for a moment he hasn't exactly been acquainted with soap for quite a while now he turns on the water and slowly starts to clean himself interior Cafe day sipy comes to the door drying her hands on an apron Miss Ruth there's a colored boy that's asking to speak with you Ruth picks up a tray of Cokes and goes out the back door exterior backyard day the yard is full of black men at a table enjoying barbecue Ruth is serving them Cokes

interior Cafe day Sheriff Grady gilgore gilgore is at the window watching Ruth outside Grady walks over to igy and speaks intently now igy I'm trying to warn you as a friend not saying who but there are some people in town don't like you sound color F Well Grady tell what you want the next time those some people come in here I'll ask them if they don't want anybody to know who they are under those sheets then then they go marching around in one of those in one of those stupid parades you boys have why don't they have enough sents to change their shoes wait a minute igy oh hell Grady y'all ain't fooling anybody well I'd recognize those size 14 Cloud Hoppers you got anywhere great looks down at his feet Ruth re-enters and joins him giving Grady a disarming smile would you like some more P gr talk to the boys but you make sure you keep them at the back door you hear Grady gets up to leave bye Ruth she

waves goodbye to Grady sipy comes in bringing clean silverware as Grady exits the cafe and smokes POI walks out of the bathroom cleaned up considerably with numerous bloody Nicks from shaving he sits down and Ruth serves him a feast consisting of fried chicken blackeyed peas turnip greens fried green tomatoes cornbread and iced tea Smokey is overwhelmed he looks at Ruth like she's the real Madonna you're going to get yourself in a whole bunch of trouble oh he's harmless when his own daddy died he didn't shed one tear but when he found out the old colored man who raised him had passed away he got drunk and sat down at the river three days crying like a baby remember sipy oh yes him but he wasn't joking now he won't sit in the same room and have a meal today I it sure don't make sense I mean big old man like Sheriff Grady scared of sitting next to a color child but he eats eggs comes right out of a chicken's

ass Ruth and igy laugh until they notice Smokey struggling with his food his hands shake so badly that finally he spills the mouthful on his lap iy puts her hand out to Ruth Smokey come on let's take a walk exterior Cafe day ity and smoking I'm sorry about spilling my food in there ma'am I'll just head on ity reaches in her apron and hands him a half pint of Old Joe whiskey God bless you for a saint man I've been on the rails for a a long time and I've seen a lot of most everything except kindness interior Cafe day Ruth watches as smokey and YY sit down on a log and they talk interior back of Cafe night Ruth is adjusting covers on the Bab 's bed she has a baby bottle in hand she takes a blanket off of her bed and heads outside interior Shack out back Ruth sees Smokey sleeping and gently puts a blanket over his body he turns and looks at her she is illuminated only by the Amber glow of a kerosene

light God bless you man interior Cafe night the place is empty except for sipy who is sweeping and grating the lone straggler who was sitting at a table chomping on a toothpick stacking up poker chips iy is trying to diaper the baby Amos and Andy is heard on the radio funny how those boys always have to run home to their wives especially when they're losing sipsy these diapers are always slipping off his leg didn't they learn knew nothing at home point of view through window we see a black pickup truck with about six men in clu clu's Clan white hoods and sheets riding on the sideboard as they pull up and stop across from the cafe they get out and one by one light torches and light up across from the cafe as three more trucks with more men drive up they carry a sign that says Beware of the invisible Empire the torch and the Rope are hungry interior Cafe night as the light from the torch is flare in the

black KN sipy looks up and sees them first oh Lord oh here they are I knew it I just knew it what is it iy walks over and looks out oh [ __ ] exterior night a group of men stand there gredy gets up and goes over to the window and looks out still picking his teeth we see two more trucks pull up at the sound of the car door at at as the sound of car doors slamming and Men shouting gets louder and louder godamn you Grady I ought to kick your butt Grady is still picking his teeth and looking at the men calmly those AR our boys but who the hell are they I don't know but that's what I'm gonna damn well find out they gather around big George menacingly iy sees this and she's out there like a shot exterior Cafe night Grady heads over to the robed group of men with igy in close Pursuit big George has a shotgun in his mouth and two manners wrapping a a rope around his body let go of him you let me handle this let go of him

you hear he's my hired man and he ain't done nothing to nobody Grady has to physically restrain igy from getting into an altercation we see how you treat your is here and we don't like it h I'm the law these pots now let that man go Pete Tidwell and Charlie Williams and about three or four more men from the Town come around the corner and just quietly stand on the corner watching the hooded men glance over at them let him go for now iy goes to the to him undo the rope and escorts him out of there as Grady continues his conversation seems I don't recognize any of you y'all ain't from whistle Stu are you interior back of CA sitting room Ruth has just finished closing the door to the cafe behind her sipy is rolling down the shades I told miss iy this was going to happen but she didn't listen to me Ruth heads for the back room as she enters the room she stops dead in her tracks terrified standing in the back room is a

hooded figure who has come in the back door he just stands there his eyes burning a hole through her sipy comes through the door and stops Dead Oh Lord who are you what do you want the hooded figure's eyes J around the room as if he were looking for something where's the Baby Ruth hears his voice looks down at his black shiny boots Frank he spots the baby in bed and takes a step forward and towards him Ruth runs after and gets the baby as sipy packs the broom and she still still has with her in Frank's Direction scat you I ain't I ain't afraid of no white Rob man no sir no scat get out of here leave us alone oh come on now you wouldn't want not father the rat his own son now would you he takes another step forward stay back it's my boy an IT Smokey Lonesome appears at the door everything all right ma'am Our Guest is just leaving another hooded man with a torch hangs on the window and motions for

Frank to come out we hear the sound of trucks starting up and driving around the cafe blowing horns come on we're up Frank stands there looking at the baby the man at the window is frantic this time hang bangs again motions for Frank to come Frank looks at Ruth I'll be back then you and the baby will be back he leaves Smokey stares at Ruth shaking in his boots and he starts to go to thank you Smokey you don't have to go you're welcome man but I have to go change my breaches interior Cafe big George is catching his breath as igy puts a dressing on his wounds he leaves I've got to thank you igy edit you'd have done the same thing for me who the hell were those [ __ ] just a bunch of old Georgia boys out to throw a little scare on you one of them was over here the other day for some or other and saw you was calling food to the colorss and thought he'd try to shake you up a little bit that's all how'd you get them to leave I

just told them that we sure as hell don't need anybody from Georgia coming over here telling us what we can canot do they won't be back I can gar godamn to you that see you in the morning interior back of Cafe igy walks to back room she sees Ruth's face what's wrong it was Frank he saw the baby are you sure it was him yes I'm sure don't you worry if he's dumb enough to come back here Grady and the Alabama boys will take care of him if they don't I will iy I don't want you taking any chances promise me you won't do anything crazy no matter what me not me and I think we'll take a pause there I got to get going guys yep I figured you probably have to go too right uh I don't want to I have to bye auy have a good shift thank you nice meeting you I hope it isn't too long that we wait for our next read with you yeah I I I might stick around a little bit longer what time is it now it's actually pretty

late like hour to go I'm like I have to go to we still have like 60 more to read yeah now I gotta go all right bye everyone have a good night have a good night all right by pause to share screen all right oops I'll be right back what was that yeah take want to take a five minute break see you all right I'll figure out the cast I'll cast recast the rest of this thing here all right recording

this can't really stop live stream so all right right first right right what did you do with e e hello hello like sort of back I'm G to put something in the microwave but yeah I just closed up all my windows it feels like it's going to freeze tonight what's going on yeah it's uh I don't know if you heard it while I was doing my lines it's been raining a lot here yeah has hasn't hit yeah oh it's yeah it's been really cold in this camper especially because there's no heating

but yeah it's really something when you want to have the air conditioning on and turn the heater on later in the same day a wild okay breathe I had to grab a blanket while we were doing our thing I was like I put a sweater on welcome to Canada AUST I'm posing it up now usually I stay I'm usually laying in my bed while we do this it's super easy to Cozy up but right now I'm on a I'm on a table so and I'm on a very uncomfortable well I shouldn't say very uncomfortable it's moderately uncomfortable little chair little bench thing it's weird oh I'm really enjoying the script oh it's a good one yes is so twists and turns I'm like now they made one change already um when she went to get Ruth and they were all packed up and everything he didn't just let her go in the movie he pushes her down the stairs pushes Ruth down the stairs she down the stairs yeah oh my gosh yeah it's like wrenching it's

really cuz she's pregnant too yeah it's a powerful moment in the in the movie yeah that's insane that's quite the microphone you got there dear oh thank you it's one of my first I'm going to start practicing for Mrs dfar Right now my puppet oh puppet I saw that uh the Broadway version it was you froze you froze too oh no I don't know who froze somebody froze what did you see Jackson um I think it you guys are all Frozen that's a good answer Let It Go here while we're on intermission I can show off my we've got Kathy bits oh oh let's see if I can turn the blur off oh yes oh that would be lovely de he we've got Kathy Bates says Evelyn couch yes oh that's who I'm playing yes oh my gosh look at the resemblance if you hadn't got your haircut it would have worked it would have worked it would have it would have been very very uncanny yeah Vicky as jica Tandy as oh my God and uh I don't have an an igy

unfortunately she's missing from my set we have Mary Louise Parker a as Ruth Ruth and look take those glasses off you're a spitting image and you're wearing the apron so you're actually worked at the restaurant I was employed yeah so you can make me Fried Green Tomatoes is what you're saying I yeah well my girlfriend can oh you know her she's from the south she's actually made me a plate already well I H I have to admit I'm jealous I'm going to put in a Morgan order right now I'm actually connected to her on Facebook so I'll tell her right now she would like some you would like some she's going to make me a corn casserole you know I I I would bet that they're not going to be hot by the time they get to me well she can send you the batter and the recipe no the premixed flour I've actually made them myself so and I can't I have to say I'm I'm never quite satisfied with what I do I actually went to the cafe the real

one oh and had them there for the the first time well I'm not surprised having stayed in the The Suite of The Shining with the lady in the bathtub we were haunted by the way this is from promotional material but they did actually make a fanny Flags original recipe Whistle Stop Cafe batter for fried green tomatoes that you could buy in box form ah oh that might be something worth trying I had it for years and I was like maybe I should use it it's probably expired by now well if it's unopened I'm sure it's fine I'm not cheap I'm just saying maybe some bugs oh wait if you see bugs donated just pick out the biggest ones and you can just leave the lesser the Lesser ones are protein she's a survivalist and I don't know if you want go uh I watch Bear Grills and I don't like what he makes people eat you seen it but I can imagine I watch I've always said I'm braver than my husband that I I will eat much more

than he will of course we are talking vegetables see I miss I miss my improv Gro oh Jackson so many new people Jackson has seen me perform live doing improv I'm just saying amazing oh I don't know if you can imagine the accents and the voices oh my gosh the Russian accent that I remember that one how got to like cats and then it went to both of you guys were actually Canadian spies I think in the end in yeah I it was it was interesting you never know you just go with the flow oh and then you were um the kid in the tree in the tree house that was my favorite scene fun yeah with ravy yeah yes you two work well together I also love the one where it was you and Matt and you guys were you were co-workers and it was the inner monologue and you're were like why is he talking to me like and then you go to him and he's like in his in his head he's like she's gonna we're going to love each other we're

love like this is so cute oh I love it I love it's you know I've done a few shows since then so I'm not 100% sure on that one it was it was I love it have you figured out the rules and are you gonna give me more I know the answer is yes yes so I got them all done here just one

sec all right I think I got the last one to move all right so I'm GNA go ahead and share the screen on this one and if you have let's see where I got back to zoom and make that and share screen let's see here we go all right so Jackson oh hi hi I've given you some of um since we lost two I'm giving you some of their roles and a few other ones oh I got my husband let's go so most of them are in the in the last uh act act five but if you were an act four um the baby so buddy Jr you get to be buddy junor he most of his lines are when he's about 10ish 10 years old and then Tim's a kid Dean is like Dean of a college nurse in the nursing home and naughty bird is Big George's daughter naughty bird um and I also gave you the rest of Brady's lines and the rest of Ed's lines perfect thank you all right Vicky let's see what you got here um I threw in let's see two and Frank um I thrown in a few more

see um Aaron I threw some for you um let's see here where put it oh orderly which is um in the I think that's in the nursing home um Susan nursing home BFF in the trial Peggy is I think a kid um might be well Peggy might be an adult in nursing home too and then if you want I threw you in some actions in descriptions at the very end okay and then see there's me I got write mine down too actually and that should be all right let's see George let see oh Vicki do you want to take this gas station you can actually take these these three if you like B George guess gas station attend yeah let me throw those over here thank you drink I have

one this what does that say between big George and the gas station OC OC I think is I think it's a kid just has one line I'm not sure who OC is I'd have to look and see okay take those off mine and I think got assign that one one make sure there's nothing else left yep it looks like everything all

right and apparently I lost my place in scri so zo something shot 106 and that's too far back R six there we go okay so we just finished that scene make that a little larger because it got smaller again somehow that's a little too large isn't it how's that does that work okay yeah and we're all still recording so we're all good right okay so we'll get back right into um act forish uh so I start and someone else takes over um no I think that's I'm going to start acual descriptions here and then Aon pick it up at shot 142 okay you just finished right yeah all right interior School auditorium Whistle Stop night stage Banner 1932 annual Christmas Foles whole town is jammed in igy and Grady are on the stage Grady's in a dress igy and Tails in a top hat Essie Ru is on the piano one thing a woman expects when she's married is syon sympathy well haven't you got it since you married me yes I sure

have from the whole town laughter and Applause the come off the stage exterior Whistle Stop Cafe night POV of a truck driving up near the cafe po of someone heading to the back of the cafe po of a dog coming at camera getting walloped on the head by a club POV hand reaching out for the door knob interior backstage we see big George coming through the backstage crowd sweaten he goes up to iy and Whispers something and then turns and iy follows him IG and big George running various shots POV inside the cafe as a camera finds a baby and lifts him out of frame tight on iy and big George running as the sounds of an approaching train get louder PE of camera heading back to pickup truck exterior back of Cafe cold Bleak day tight shot of an axe going through a rib repeat the axe slashes through another and then another until we reveal its big George slicing for a barbecue he drops a ribs in a big black pot

dangles over a flame his little daughter naughty bird age five standing with them is Brady Kilgore and a stranger walk up exterior back of Cafe Grady takes a photo out of his vest pocket you see this man around here in the last couple of days big George looks at it tight on the photo of Frank Bennett no sir I I sure ain't you sure yes sir when well when we get uh when we're going to get us some of that barbecue in a few minutes sir yes sir into your kitchen day sipy walks in and sees iy and Ruth in SE Corners laughing their heads off and covered with water and food what is going on here she tried to teach me how to cook igy laughs is It's the funniest thing in the world as does Ruth sipy just stares at these two tasty oh sorry taste these fried green tomatoes please don't taste like you're cooking Miss Ruth I can't cook at all too much pepper crust falls off because Ruth gave me the wrong recipe she cackles even louder as

she tries to stand up and can't igy throws an egg at Ruth who miraculously catches it you're a truce Mr Grady is in the cafe with some strange looking mans nothing new about that Bruce stands and throws a green tomato Iggy who juggles it with two salt shakers igy goes to see Grady interior Cafe Grady walks over to and Ruth joins them hi there what can I do for you boys inie this here officer Chris snoot he's over here from Georgia looking for a fella do you recognize him Ed looks at Ruth then no well that's my husband but I haven't seen him in some time I heard he got run over by a Brinks armored truck what's he done Curtis smooch is a weasel looking man with a tight high voice nothing we know know of we're trying to find out what's being done to him he told his hiring man he was coming over to see his wife and baby and he ain't never shown up back home well I keep telling him if he showed up in this town we'd all know he

looks kind of uh kind of sissified if you ask me from what I hear most of you boys from Georgia are a little light on your feet that's what they that's what I heard I don't suppose I could interest you in some pie no but that that barbecue smells mighty fine best damn barbecue in the state into your Cafe late afternoon Curtis is sitting alone by the window music is on the radio Smokey Lonesome is doing the dishes here you go that's the fourth one today I swear you're about to eat up all my barbecue sit down did you D so Curtis leans across the table menacingly you're uh you're not fooling me girly girl I know who you are I heard from Bennett's Hing man that you threatened to kill Frank Bennett now he ain't shown up dead yet but if he does you're going to be in a whole mess of trouble you understand what what we're talking about here is murder running a a fool of the law nobody gets away with that not even you

you bunch of Al Alabama smart hats f is listening and if I find somehow as a have his so so much as a have his I'll arrest you faster than you can slap uh slap a tick cause I'm the law and you can't beat the law and interior back room day igy is holding the baby over her head playing with it the baby is laughing tell me what he said I told you he said that was the best damn barbecue ever had that's all no what else said the pile was pretty good too exterior Big George's house Troutville day Curtis Smoot is parked outside Big George's house leaning against his car his wife anzel is on the porch watching naughty bird watching naughty bird is hanging on big George who's at the car looking at a picture you sure never seen this man boy no sir oh I done tell you over and over I ain't never seen this man you do anything for Mrs IG e what did she oh yes sir would you kill for her what do you kill for her no

sir ahuh well maybe one of those these days you'll tell me the truth just remember we hang lying inwards just as fast in the Georgia as you d uh yes sir I I remember didy watch us from the distance in teer Whistlestop Cafe night Ruth is sitting by the table one light is on she's reading there's a loud cry from the back of the cafe she gets up and hurries to the back buddy is crying she picks him up and brings him into the cafe and fixes him a bottle exterior Big George's house later that night iy is talking to big George then waves goodbye and walks away into the windy night in tear Whistle Stop Cafe night Ruth still rocks buddy in her arms but now he is sleeping a shudder slams against the wall startling Ruth she walks over and latches it shut she stares another window and watches the trees swing in the breeze she goes to the front door and locks it she sits back down with Buddy as the sound of an

approaching train fills the air are you doing up igy Ruth nearly hits the ceiling igy is covered in mud are you okay no he scared me out of my wits what in God's name is going on Beats me are you staying here to protect buddy and me no then why haven't you gotten married what's gotten into you is it because of me am I being selfish and keeping you from in your own family no it's not your fault I've just never met a guy who made me feel comfortable like you do most of the time anyway why are the questions you trying to get rid of me I had this dream the other night I dreamt that buddy was gone I woke up ran to his crib and there he was sleeping like an angel I prayed and thank God for buddy I I remembered having the same reaction after Frank would beat me thanking the lord for giving me the strength to take it and I remember thanking the lord for each day my mother lived even when she was spitting up blood and crying for me

to kill her I looked up my mother's eyes pleading with me to help her and all I could do was Pray when you was gone as I was holding body I thought that bastard Frank Bennett ever come take my child away I won't pray I'll kill him Ruth you don't have to worry about Frank Bennett anymore how can you say that it's his child too he won't give up on his blood I should take Buddy and get far away from here I'm only going to tell you this one time Frank Bennett won't be bothering you no more that's it you understand did did you kill him no you don't believe me do you right now I don't know what to believe well believe me when I tell you that I don't want you to move out Ruth looks at iy trying to comprehend this woman in Rose Hills Nursing Home day Evelyn is munching on nin's Cracker Jacks in transed and Ruth never did leave exterior Piggly Wiggly parking lot Day present it is Saturday and it is

jammed Evelyn drives up and down looking without luck for a parking space then she stops behind an elderly man who is very slowly unloading his groceries into the trunk of his car she pulls over and turns on her indicator clearly waiting and out of the way the old man takes forever to finish interior car Evelyn Taps her nails on the steering wheel come on I don't have forever let's go in exterior parking lot the elderly man finds his keys in his left pants pocket and finally gets into his car Evin puts her car into gear finally the old old man backs out carefully toward Evelyn once a nose of his car is out of the parking lot a faded red VW Rabbit convertible Zips in the wrong way and parks in the place two skinny gum chewing teenage girls hop out of the back of the BW which flaunts a bumper sticker that says I break for rednecks and heads past Evelyn toward the store she leans out her window excuse me but

I was waiting for that space yeah tough face it lady where younger and faster the other girl laughs and they walk on full of the joyous arrogance of Youth Evelyn sits there for a moment on the verge of tears then her jaw tightens her Knuckles on the steering wheel tighten and her eyes Harden with resolve of I wonderand Evelyn guns her car and swings the wheel and smashes into the back at surprise VW offender crumples Evelyn backs up and then smashes into the car again the bumper drops off two hubcaps fly the girls look back stunned as Evelyn plows into the VW again harder a whole back end is crumbled now the back window splinters one of the girls runs toward the market yelling help someone the other girl grabs her arm and Yanks her toward the cars Evelyn's arms are rigid eyes narrowed as she Stomps on the gas her car leavs forward and on impact there's a trace of a smile on her face the girls arrive frantic banging on the

top of Evelyn's car Furious what are you doing are you crazy stop Evelyn Smiles with Clint Eastwood smile face it honey I'm older and I have more Insurance in teer Rose Hills Nursing Home day Evelyn is coming down the hill carrying a large bag of carrots Janine is pushing a gurnie piled full of laundry Evelyn sees it panics and throws herself Back Against The Wall terrified as Janine goes by she glances up at Evelyn and says it's okay honey it's just laundry thank God you scared me to death they walked down the hall together in Rose Hill's Lobby Evelyn is plowing through her bag of carrots she is highly agitated nin is worried I never got mad Mrs good never that the way I was raised it was Bad Manners well I got mad and it felt terrific I felt like I could beat the [ __ ] out of those punks excuse my language beat them to a pul beat them till they beg for mercy with a wild laugh Evelyn thrust the fist

into the air to the Avenger after I wiped out those punks this world I take on the wife beaters and machine gun uh machine gun their genitals put little bombs in the in pen houses and Playboys so they explode when they open it to Wanda will go the uh go on a rampage then I'll ban all fashion models weight loss then3 lb half the military budget to uh people over 65 and decrease wrinkle uh wrinkles sex wrinkle sexuality distri desirable desirable she thrust her fist into the air Taiwan writer of wrongs queen of compare without compare nin looks bewildered how many of them hormones are you taking honey interior couch house day dinner's on the table but Evelyn isn't sitting her place is already gone and Ed's meal waits for him Evelyn is running in place in her sweats on a little trampoline Ed walks to the table what what I can't understand is is how you could hit someone six times by accident oh

Ed don't make it a big deal don't make a big deal about it he tastes his supper and almost spits it out what is this it's a low cold saw me uh colda chestal meal are you trying to kill me if I was going to kill you I use my hands and stares at her in total disbelief as she continues jogging and a Baby Ruth falls out of the pouch of her sweatshirt interior Rose Hill's nursing home day ninnie is sitting by a window a light rain is falling outside as Evelyn walks down a long Corridor toward her I'm worried about my little friend Evelyn she said her husband Ed was just be sitting around watching his sports on TV and she has an urge to just hit him in the head with the baseball bat well hell that seems normal to me Evelyn jogs into the room and Ninny gets up Evelyn hands her a package of hard candies why thank you Evelyn you're welcome Mrs the good but you have to tell me something did ygy murder Frank Bennett or not well hold

your horses sweetheart where were we um you didn't kill Ed now did you no good anyway six years had passed since Bennett disappeared and Curtis smoo was still hunting and packing exterior Whistle Stop railroad tracks day 1938 the kids are swinging from our road the crosses the railroad tracks and jumping off when they get to the other side just as budy buddy and igy did many years before naughty bird Big George's daughter says something to the boys and they stop playing their game Curtis smot walks by sees big George working on a car nearby interior Whistle Stop Cafe day igy Smokey Lonesome and Grady are all sitting around the table having a good time while sipy is dusting off a painting of The Last Supper while Ruth looks on who's not sitting up there with Mr Jesus W sipsy they're the Brethren well I thought Miss Mary just had one boy iy tries to suppress a laugh as Ruth realizes sipsy is teasing Curtis Smo

enters a cafe and glares ominously over at itchy Tipsy tell the story how you got big George off the train cuz his mother was heading back to see her husband who' been in jail for the past 3 years and she didn't think he caught in the kindly to her being with child well that's the whole story put I tells you the one about the woman who was having trouble giving birth so I gave her a teaspoon of snu and she sneezed so hard that she shot the baby clear across the end of the bed into the other room this be uh sipy you are the founding member of the Liar's Club you ought to change your name from Kill Gore to kill Joy Smokey tell us one of yours a train whistle is heard and then breaks squealing oh Lord no naughty birds with the boys they all run out of the cafe exterior train tracks day just going on with my computer from this distance we see a crowd is gathering the train is stopped the Rope is swinging aimlessly above the

tracks naughty bird is on her knees hysterically crying Ruth approaches the crowd and they part she lets had a scream when she sees buddy covered with blood a car drives up to the accident site igy picks up buddy his arm has been mauled she carries a moaning buddy Junior to the car with the help of smokey Lonesome you got to stop the bleeding Ruth she puts her skirt tightly against his arm am I amem I not today big George opens the car door and they Place buddy junor inside and then speed off toward the hospital exteror hospital the car kin to a halt and big George carries buddy junor from the car until a gurnie is wheeled outside to meet him buddy junr is placed on the gurnie and hustled into the hospital Ruth and igy runs into the building while big George follows but an orderly stops big George at the door I'm sorry you'll have to wait outside no color alive big George watches buddy Ruth and ity

vanish into the hospital he walks around to a low wall and sits his hands still covered with blood later same location big George still Waits igy egit is the hospital and sits beside him make it okay make it okay you can do you can do whatever you want with me but just make it okay and make Ruth okay too please amen exterior back of Cafe tied on a tombstone that reads here lies buddy Junior's arm 1932 to 1937 so long old pal igy a bunch of kids black and white and a goat are gathered around an eagle scout is playing Taps but a junior and igy in old army hats are standing at attention but a junior is saluting with his right arm we see the left one is missing above the elbow Ruth is praying and stops I can understand having a fun funeral for an arm but I don't know why she insists on calling him stunk she says that everyone is going to call him that anyway we might as well be the first ice cream and cakes for everyone

in the cafe iy walks up the roof puts her arm around her and watches his buddy and the rest of the town's kids head to the cafe for for dessert my daddy used to say there's a separate God for children igy squeezes ru's shoulder the good Lord was watching over stump that day but when then and Grady found Frank Bennett's truck igy and big George went on trial and I just knew ' never get out of this mes exterior Riverbank Whistle Stop 1938 again a black truck is pulled out of the river it is Rusted and worn tied on a Georgia plate a shar's car rolls out to a halt and out walks Grady Kilgore he stares at the license plate and confers with his Deputy he is not happy exterior Courthouse valdasta Georgia day December 1938 a small Southern Courthouse sits proudly on Main Street interior valdasta Courthouse day December 1938 High panel ceedings and vanished Oak Grace the room Ruth and grader seated in the front row iy is on the

stand being questioned by the prosecutor a heavy set profusely sweating man with wavy hair a gold chain watch cross his vast and an anxious manner did you know Frank Bennett no sir murmurings from the crowd the prosecutor looks at her severely you mean to tell me you never met the man whose wife Ruth is your business partner that's right scattered laughter the judge glares and bangs his scav you never threatened to kill Frank Bennett at his home in front of a Hired Man in August of 1938 the same Frank Bennett you did not know oh well that was me all right I thought you wanted to know if we'd ever met the answer is no I threatened to kill him but you know we were never what you might say properly introduced is it not true that you came to valasta in September of 192 28 and took Frank Bennett's wife and child back to Alabama with you just the wife the child came later how much later the usual nine months more laughter the

prosecutor is red-faced Bruce shakes her head and looks at Grady who is smiling in deference to Ruth he stops the judge bangs his gav is it true that you spoke against Frank Bennett to his wife and made her believe he was not fit is a husband no sir she already knew that for a fact laughter the prosecutor glares at the judge who shrugs Ruth looks down embarrassed by all this talk I suggest that you bribe this poor weak woman with Promises of money and liquor and that she lost control of her senses momentarily when her husband came back to get her and take her home you and your colored man murdered him and Cold Blood no sir where were you on the night of December 13th 1929 sweat has curled 's hair she takes out a handkerchief and wipes her face at the Town Hall doing a show and after over at my mother's house oh yes who was with you um just big George and myself what about your mother can she

confirm that no sir she died a year ago so miss thread good you expect 12 intelligent men to believe you although one witness is dead and the other is a colored man who is known to be a worthless no good line person you ask these men to take your word for it just because you say so that's right you g face blown up baboon ass bastard the room explodes the judge bangs his gabble we have a judge is that me too one more Outburst like that and I'll ask you to I'll hold you in contempt a court you understand ity nods big George covers his face with his hands Ruth and Grady exchange worried looks as Ruth Comfort stump tied on sipy in the balcony he shakes her head oh Lord what you done at this time interior courtroom day Ruth is on the witness stand did you know you were pregnant at the time you left valasta yes and yet you tell us over and over that you went with this woman willingly yes I wouldn't raise my child

with Frank Bennett but why did this woman promise you money no no bigger home no then tell us Mrs Bennett why would a respectable Christian woman go anywhere with this ity thread good he points ity the defender jumps up I object objection whose reputation was known far and wide as a notorious liar and drunkard objection objection sustained why did you leave with Iggy thread good that day Ruth sits looking at the prosecutor but does not answer silence there's a hush in the courtroom answer the question Mrs Bennett Ruth looks at the judge Ben iy whose Eyes Are Fixed On Ruth because she's the best friend I ever had and I love her Ru Smiles at igy weekly igy looks kind of proud that'll be all Mrs Bennett the defense lawyer gets up as Ruth takes a seat behind igy the defense calls as its last witness the Reverend Herbert scrogin igy is surprised and turns around Reverend scren sweeps up the aisle pompously and takes a stand

there's a lot of mumbling in the crowd igy leans over and Whispers to Ruth I'm going to miss you thanks for all the good times have a place your right hand on the Bible please Reverend Ro P that a Bible I brought my own if you don't mind do you swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth I do the defense lawyer Paces back and forth and you have information about the whereabouts of igy red goods and her colored man known as Big George on the night of December 13th 1929 yes I do well it's been suggested here that she and her colored man were over at her mother's house can you confirm that no sir that is a lot oh [ __ ] scin opens his personal Bible to the back it's been my Habit to rock down all the dates of the activities of the church in my B and I show that the night of the December 13th 1929 I was the start of the annual of our annual uh rival animal Revival down at the Baptist

campgrounds sister thread good was there as along with her hired man George om man who was in charge of the barbecue just as he has been every year for the last 10 years objection this doesn't mean anything the murder could have taken place any time in the next couple of days have you ever been at uh to one of our revivals well no we uh well you should go attend one then our revivals last three days and three nights your honor are you sure miss thread Goods was there of course I'm sure we we think so much of sister fed good they that several members of the several members of the conation concentration have come over in a bus to testify on his behalf on her behalf Eva Bates with a purse and a flowered hat and three or four other dercks in the River Club stand up and wave the audience goes wild the judge gives up banging his gavel there's noise he puts his fingers to his lips and lets out an

ear splitting whistle both lawyers look over him startled and he beckons them to the bench the judge addresses his remarks to the prosecutor Percy it don't look like you've got a case first of all there's nobody second we got a preacher no one's going to dispute but your honor I'm telling you what you've got is a whole lot of nothing I say Frank Bennett got himself drunk drove into the river and was long ago eaten up by something I don't give a damn what we've got here is a case of accidental death case dismissed and he bangs his gavel The Crowd Goes Wild sipy naughty birds and naughty and naughty bird dancing in the balcony as Reverend scroggin leaves the stand and passes igy he tips his hat to her see you in church s sister I can't believe it he actually swore on the Bible well not really if that judge had looked close enough he would have seen it was a copy of mie dick but why did he

do that for a sheer joy of seeing you in church again which I suggested him would be your Penance you you didn't promise him did you ah sorry I did and I never break my word if I live a thousand years I'll never forgive you for this I don't know what's worse church or jail interor nin's nursing room home Day present tight on a merry K kit Evelyn has nin in a chair and it's making her up there don't you look pretty oh yes honey oh you're going to have me looking like Ginger Rogers before you're done oh don't let Mr dunway see me oh he's liable to go wild I'm so glad to see you in a better mood and you slimmed down quite a bit the last few weeks I'm just so happy ingred and big George got off I wouldn't I would have killed Jo Frank Bennett if I could have did anybody think she really did it some said yes and some said no of course nobody knows for sure except for Frank Bennett and you know what they say

dead men tell no Tales into your couch home day Evelyn is in the process of demolishing a wall she's holding a crowbar in one hand and a small Sledge in the other she's enjoying the process immensely aided by Beethoven's Ninth which gives her some real Rhythm to her wrecking Ed walks in and sees Evelyn bashing through some Sheetrock Ed is dumbfounded oops sorry what on Earth are you doing I need some light and air why don't you step outside now stop this right now Evelyn takes her Sledge and smashes a 2x4 and it splinters to the ground that's her answer Ed just shakes his head and turns toward the dinner table sorry sorry I'm not sure what's going on with my silly Mouse no dinner either Evelyn Just Smiles Ed turns and walks right out of the house Ed do you ever wonder why I've been going to my classes for all these years I've been trying to save our marriage was that point of my uh was the

point of my trying if my if you just sit on your butt drinking beer and watching baseball I've been making a mistake all right instead of going to the complete woman's classes I should have been going to carate Evelyn pauses for a moment and launches into another barrage of punishing hammer blows accompanied by lugd Von V exterior Rose Hills Nursing Home a car with Mary K written on the side pulls into the parking lot Evelyn dressed in a bright pink dress with a forest green scarf flowing behind her gets out carrying a huge shopping bag and heads to the door everything about her is different stride her figure she's become quite attractive in your Rose Hills Nursing Home day Evelyn is walking on the hallway toward nin's room as she approaches the aunt's room she hesitates as usual but this time Walks With Dignity past the room no projectiles are thrown as she gets down the hall however Mr dunway again comes rolling out of her

room and has a nonfatal high-speed collision with the wall Evelyn St stops and stares him in awe he smiles he's fine and smiling why do you get back in there time after time do we have a Mr oh she's so Lov he smiles at Evelyn and she continues her journey um this would be Sue Mrs couch Evelyn turns and sees a middle-aged black woman heading toward her I'm Sue Mrs Otis's daughter-in-law she's waiting in my car but I wanted to introduce myself to you well hello how are you I've heard so much about you from Mrs th gr oh she's so sweet she's been looking after my mother-in-law for years now Mrs thread good told me you're doing great with your new job she's so proud of you well it was her idea you know how is Mrs AO artist doing by the way oh much better thank you I guess it just takes some time getting used to a strange Place well I'm glad to hear it I know Mrs thread good being anxious to get out

uh to get home for some some time now did she tell you that yes I think she's mostly worried about her home Mrs couch Mrs Tria doesn't have a house anymore that tore that down what they had to it was falling apart and it was condemned no did she know that no we didn't see any point in telling her it would just break her heart poor old thing inter nin's room nin's asleep in her room her dress inside out the sun washing out with little color she has she looks transparent Evelyn is holding a gift and stops in the doorway realizing suddenly how old her friend is Evelyn enters the room and studies the wall by N's bed it's full of pictures of sweetheart roses that have been cut out of magazines ninnie opens her eyes smiling Pats her hair and gathers herself together oh Evelyn oh hello oh do you like my roses well since I can't get home to see my own roses I made myself a paper Garden got everything but

the bugs they're lovely I can't it's hard to get to sleep early like everyone else here I wait till I hear the 10:20 train whistle heading to Atlanta or maybe I just think I hear it it doesn't matter I still don't go off until I do have you been here long I just got here I shouldn't I should have woke you up of course you should have don't you ever let me sleep through a visitor's day honey I look forward to them all week so do I to tell you the truth Mrs thread good so do I you you know it's funny the people in The Whistle Stop seem more real that to me than my own life I brought you something for your birthday ninny opens a box with a birthday cake in it and some fried green tomatoes that Evelyn made wrapped in a tin container Evelyn starts a hang party decorations all over the room I can't believe you remembered and you made me Fried Green Tomatoes they're delicious it's your recipe are they cold

no they are just the way we used to eat them at the cafe you couldn't be sweeter to me if you were my own daughter you know I don't feel 83 I just sort of slipped up on me one day it seemed I was a young woman running around and the next day I was just full of liver spots walking like molasses going uphill in Winter oh I just never thought I could live this long of course the Lord takes us home when he wants us they say the Good Die Young then he looks off we see she's tearing up are you all right I was just thinking about r exterior Whistle Stop Cafe day 1939 the Cafe is closed a sign out front says closed due to illness the paint is beginning to peel and the building is echoing the sentiment of the sign after the trial was over everything went back to normal until that spring when Ruth lost her appetite and when doc Hadley looked at her he said the cancer was so bad she had a only a couple of

weeks well we took her to the thread Goods house so she would be more comfortable and sipy moved in with her and never left her side exterior thread good house day out around the back the boys are in the midst of a raging baseball game buddy junr now aged seven is the littlest one on his team he is batting and he keeps missing the pitch swinging awkwardly awkwardly with one arm you're stepping in the basket standing there Tim pitches to him and Buddy junor steps in the bucket and misses the pitch Peggy Hadley age six is watching concerned stop picking on Stump he's only got one arm I'm going to tell your mama's she means well but buddy is completely human humiliated by having a girl stick up for him and he Strikes Out interior thread good house Ruth's room day Ruth is in pain Ruth is in bed quite obviously ill and in pain sipy walks over and sits with her when the dog runs in and puts his head on the bed

Ruth Pats it there's my old pal lay down now the dog does so by the side of the bed sipy just stares at Ruth Ruth takes takes a deep breath and looks at zpy I think it's time to get itchy yeah not right now nonsense I I'll go get her I don't want her to see me like this and you've been a teacher all these years I'll be back in a second will you fix my hair please now how you're making sense interior another room day igy is standing by the window watching stump sipy walks up to her Miss Ruth wants you why you looking at me like that child I don't know if I can do it to what you've been with her for years what's the matter with you children what if I just start to cry you won't you'll be strong girl you'll go in there and make her feel warm can I just have her pain igy walks out of the room and sipsy slowly follows interior Ruth's room day igy walks in and sits next to Ruth igy I know I'll make sure he graduates

no matter what and I won't let him out of my s yes but teach him to run like you do and ask questions and above all be free and itchy don't let him come to the funeral I don't want him going through that oh for God's sake What funeral will you stop talking like that you're going to be back on your feet feeling just fine in a few days you wait and see oh ity I'm scared just hold my hand do you want me to read to you I brought some of that poetry with like Wordsworth now you want to read oh itchy just hold my hand Ruth I want to apologize for being so difficult that's a lot of what I like about you you're so so unique I don't know how much longer I can take this I remember reading job when I was a little girl and not understanding what the purpose of his suffering was maybe God would have told us if he wanted us to know did good did I hear you correctly did you say God has his reasons maybe he

does Ruth starts to laugh igy looks at her quizzically for a second and then she starts to laugh too until they're both at it pretty good when sipy peaks in the door and St STS incredulously then buddy walks in his head is down he goes and sits in the corner looks like he might have been crying and there's blood all down his shirt and under his nose honey what's the matter nothing clearly something is wrong Ruth looks at igy for help your mother asked you a question now answer her buddy can't say anything he's on the verge of tears H I can't bet worth the time can't catch igy exchanges a look with Ruth igy gets her coat and goes and puts her arm around him let's go you're coming with me mister let's get your coat Ruth waves as igy and Buddy leave the room exterior River Club day igy takes stump out of her truck and they knock on the door Eva shows up what can I do for you two beers right away later same location iy is

drinking both beers stump is watching her drink she is holding a baseball on her lap did you get into a fight I got punched in the nose can't play like everyone else did I tell you a story about the oysters all the millions of them just lying around um that's you twoo st God and God puts sand in one hand then it makes a pearl oh did I ever tell you about Eva's three-legged dog how it never felt sorry for itself and how I ought to be smarter than a dumb dog and not feel so feel sorry for myself you listen to everything I say don't you you got real mad when I don't well you know about your mama she's sick well now's the time for courage like the time big George did I ever tell you when he saved you from the wild hogs well they weren't wild but they were Hogs and he was Brave then you probably know that there are angels masquerading as people and walking this planet and your mom is the bravest one of

those stump chokes up a little then nods and then puts his arm around 's neck nestling her and trying not to cry so what do you say that you and I practice some hidden I'd like interior Ruth's room day buddy runs into the room Ruth opens her eyes and smiles weakly mama I can hit you should see me and anunt in hit me in the back with a cleave uh curved Ball but I didn't duck and I I hardly cried she hit you yeah I think she did that to me too once but I think I did cry Mama I'm sorry if you're sad give me a big kiss and I'll never be sad again buddy kisses her a pause and don't you be sad either promise promise he runs out of the room she Wines in pain sipsy hold on honey I'm here don't you worry zsy holds up the needle in the sunlight filling it full no ma'am my Jesus is a sweet Jesus he never meant for one of his babies to suffer so no man iy can't watch she goes to the window and sees a group of black

men and women standing on the front lawn igy sits on Ruth's bed Ruth opens her eyes there is a long silence seeing the Heartbreak in 's eyes Ruth tries to make it easier are you sure you don't want me to read you anything yes will you do one thing for me what be good to yourself even settle down if you find someone who can beat you in poker igy can't take it and has to walk away from Ruth Ruth there are so many things I should tell you past is past I love your stories tell me a story iy igy tries to speak but for the first time since anyone's known her nothing comes out Ruth can't help but notice and loses her composure a little as she sees tears forming in 's eyes come on your old be charma tell me a good tall T igy tries again but can't pull herself together tell me the one about the Lake the lake one that used to be here oh that was nothing but a lie a no fool tell me anyway Ruth closes her eyes igy stares

at her for a moment tell me the story well one time there was this great big old Lake right outside of town oh we used to swim and fish and go canoeing in it and then one day in November this big flock of ducks well about 40 or more landed right smack in the middle of that Lake and while they were sitting there the temperature dropped so fast the whole lake froze they're singing from outside and the next thing we knew they'd flown off and this day that lake is somewhere over in Georgia igy sobbs and puts her head down on the side of the bed still holding Ruth hand sipy walks in and looks at igy and Ruth she quietly stops the clock and covers the mirror with a Shaw she goes over to igy who is still sobbing like her heart will break it's all right honey Let It Go M Ruth was a lady and a lady always knows when it's time to leave exterior Cemetery day Ruth is being buried a large crowd is present SC

is preaching igy and stump aren't present camera pans and pans and pans until we find them in a neighboring field tossing a baseball back and forth Ruth's request satisfied exterior Rose Hill Nursing Home Fall Day present Evelyn and Ninny are sitting on the porch tears are streaming down Evelyn's face a flock of birds fly by in the fall sky ninnie shades her eyes and looks up and watches them Fade Into The Horizon it's funny how strong Ruth affected everyone even Smokey Lonesome and when he died a few years back he had one possession on him a picture of Ruth I think it was the only thing Smokey ever stole he was in love with her from the first time he saw her oh look at the birds shouldn't have told you this I hate death it scares me so I wouldn't be so frightened of death if I were you I'd be more scared driving in rush hour traffic exterior University of Alabama graduation exercises 1953 the camera track slowly passed very

polished and highly fashionable dress shoes a pair of black wing tips then white pumps black dress shoes then white pumps and so forth as we hear offs Scream the names of the graduates being announced the camera arrives at stockinged bare feet with shoes nearby leaning on one another the camera tracks up the leg revealing a run in the stocking until a white dress comes in View and finally igy in a large hat seated trying not to fidget the camera pulls back revealing Grady next to her with Cleo and sipy and big George Dr Hadley and his daughter Peggy and last but not least Eva Bates and Reverend Scroggins our group is somewhat in congruous with the suits that surround them buddy three good Junior igy whistles and claps with pride exterior campus day later two show two shoes are being carried in one hand and a small package is in 's other hand this is for you stump opens the box and takes out a beautiful gold

watch thank you thanks a ity it's not for me buddy look on the back he turns it over the inscription read reads simply I love you mother tears spring into his eyes as he looks at igy and hugs her your mom would have been so proud I wish she could be have been

here friend I lose my run on son you and Peggy go be with your friends igy watches him leave hand inand with Peggy she starts to walk down the grass to a secluded spot when Grady comes over huh hard to believe he's all he's a grown man now ready to get married yeah igy starts to take off her stockings while she is walking hopping on one foot with a Grace that only igy possesses with the railroads shutting down one by one how much longer can you keep this the Cafe open you figure out what you're G to do to what you're going to

do well I'll probably just move think you're cutting out a bit there Aron oh internet's going crazy I'll probably just move down a Florida get me some beehives and start selling honey you know I've always been thinking you and me been knowing each other for well I was wondering if you had thoughts about that idy starts to walk faster holding her stockings and her shoes Grady has to struggle to keep up with her what getting married now that gladies is gone and well hell is how many times do I have to ask you I don't want to be alone all your life I appreciate the charity Grady but let me tell you one thing they may put Miss on my Tombstone but as far as I'm concerned I haven't missed a thing igy takes a deep jog toward where the trees

are yep cutting out again go ahead Grady you mean I don't stand flies off and cartwheels across me I stand a chance not even someday oh you might stand a chance someday if you can catch me ah sorry don't know what's going on at all

um try that maybe if I stop my video Grady Smiles takes a deep breath and heads out of frame interior couch house the dinner table is set with two piece two place settings and flowers Evelyn is busy at work but not in the kitchen she is building a wall in the identif demolition she has lost a bit of weight and looks great of course when the railroads shut down and they put in all those new super highways nothing was ever the same Whistle Stop was just left sitting there by the tracks to fall apart time just passed it by Ed enters the house he has flowers too Ed walks up to her and gives her a kiss and the flowers for you honey oh Ed how sweet Lily my favorite I know you I know sometimes I even amaze myself what is the occasion I'm just so sorry for the last few months how not exactly sure what is going on with you but and I guess I haven't been very helpful with your job and all why why are you pulling a wall

down where where you were you were where were you were just teing one down well I made a mistake I don't mean to see him dense or anything but what changed the air and the light Ed you know how I you used to tell me how you always dreamed of having two women in the house in your house what if I were the younger of the two I don't believe I get your drift I want something more than I've ever wanted any anything before I want to bring Mrs three uh thread good to our house I want her to live here I want to give her the house and live love she given me given to me you kidding I'm absolutely serious that's why I'm putting the wall to K's room back up EV Evelyn Evelyn Evelyn this is not something you just do she's an Old Woman Who is going to take care of her her if she gets sick I will I can't leave her in the helm this is crazy this is not a stray cat or something she's not even family she's

family to me please Ed do this for me this is absolutely out of the question have you told have you told her about hair hairbrained ideas of yours not yet good now let's just pretend this never ever never even came up I'm earning money now I can pay for everything and you don't have to do a thing it's never gonna happen just forget it don't ever say never to me don't think to me like I'm some kind of pet that goes wherever you point at couch just because you're stuck in a rut doesn't mean I'm going to live there with you forever someone helped me put a mirror in my face and I didn't like what I saw one bit and you know what I did I changed and you better to cuz there's something Mrs thed good and I and she needs my love and care now and I'm going to give it to her with you or without you Evelyn walks to the kitchen and picks up a out the door and

that and and if you won't listen to reason then there's a ways to wander she tosses the baseball bat across rolls right up to Ed's feet she leaves Ed picks up the bat and starts to swing it at some Phantom baseball then he takes a piece of food on the table and eats it he nods it's good exterior Evelyn gets in the car matter than hell starts the engine and thinks about going back in the house until she hears a banging sound she realizes it hammering and Ed is The Man Behind The Hammer she smiles interior Rose Hills Nursing Home day Evelyn comes down the hall carrying a picnic basket as passes by and door is open she pops her head in thinking she might be there hello she stops cold as she sees nin stripped and bare a young nurse she has never seen before is ripping down all of Off the Wall throwing them in a wastepaper basket what are you doing stop that there's those are Mrs THS things Evelyn goes over to her and picks

up the waste basket and takes things out what are you doing in here where is Mrs the good who Evelyn Furious is trying to put things back on the wall Mrs SE good the woman who lives in here lives here are you deaf I'm so I'm Sorry Miss ah all they told me is that W that the woman who lived here dead died this morning Evelyn sits down on the other bed stunned oh God what did it when did it happen early this morning they told me to take all the stuff down that's all I know the nurse continues to rip down pictures Evelyn looks up and sees the rest of the pictures being ripped down she jumps up and pushes the nurse aside screaming stop that God damn it what's the matter with you people can't you wait a goddamn day be for Christ sake do you have any respect those are her things she clutches the torn pieces of paper to I'm Sorry Miss they told me to get this room ready for another patient well she may be just be another

patient to you but she was my friend and I loved her sorry but I'm just following orders the girl continues to remove pictures from the wall don't you touch them get out just get out Janine comes in the door alarmed at the noise what in the world is going on oh shut up what did you do throw her out with the laundry calm down what didn't you call me you didn't have at least called me before you sent this idiot in here Janine sees how upset Evelyn is and motions for the nurse to leave I'm sorry Mrs couch it just never occurred to me that you would take it this hard I didn't even get to tell her goodbye and thank her for helping me I know these things are hard but she died peacefully in her sleep to tell you the truth I thought you'd be happy for Mrs thread good happy yes this is what she wanted to be dead no to go home you just missed her she just left in a Yellow Cab not more than half an hour hour

ago I don't understand a c yes wasn't any reason for her to stay here now that Mrs Otis is dead Mrs Otis died Janine looks at her confused yes Mrs Otis died she grabs Janine whoa she grabs Janine and gives her a big kiss now

that technical difficulties pardon me now that Miss now that I'm glad Mrs hus died it's just that suddenly her Joy changes to alarm as she realizes that nin is headed home I'm not sure what's going on keeps jumping ahead of me

here um there we go I don't know it's like something is making my mouse go somewhere else okay let's try a keyboard a little bit try that suddenly her Joy changes to alarm as she realizes that ninny is headed home oh my God I have to stop her Evelyn runs out of the room the young nurse comes back in and looks at Janine she's a nice woman but I think she has some serious emotional problems exterior parking lot day Evelyn runs out and jumps into her car and squeals out of the parking lot she goes about a half a block and Slams on the brakes interior car Evelyn is desperately searching for a map in the glove compartment the hell is the wh Whistle Stop that's right it's not on the map exterior filling station there's nothing out there anymore just a few houses I know just tell me where how to get there well you go about half a mile and then when you see the tracks turn left and keep going straight exterior Whistle Stop day EVN

arrived whist stop which is a ghost town ninny in front of an empty lot she approaches ninny who is crying and holding a small shoe box remaining roses in her garden Evelyn puts her arm around and hugs her no hi Evelyn somebody stole my house it was right there when I left unless oh Evelyn you don't reckon I'm crazy do you I mean this is the place it used to be Evelyn hugs her again oh honey you're not crazy this is the well who would want to steal an old lady's house it wasn't worth anything nobody stole it honey they had to tear it down it was condemned I'm sorry I should have told you before I was going to Ninny turns and Lot C Cleo built that house for me when we were just married and now it's gone 83 years worth of living and all that's left of me is just what's in this box a bunch of old cards and pictures that's not true you're here you want you're what's important come on let's go

home this is my home and it's gone and so is Mrs Otis you know I don't quite know what to do oh it's the first time that I can't remember that I don't have anyone to look after you can look after me and add oh you're sweet but I think you're doing just fine on your own don't you know you you'd be like a gift from us you're the reason that I get up every morning and that I'm that the Mary Kay is has such a good year and that I don't look like a bob blob for some horror movie well maybe With a Little Help from igy and Ruth come on well let's go to my place I'll get you your a room all prepared and what does Ed say about all this he he'll grow to love it then he starts to smile and she head slowly toward town did I ever tell you that Mrs Otis was sippy's baby sister no you didn't yes she was Mrs oldest was with sipy and me the night sipy died they'd always sing gospel songs about trains and that night before

sipy died she told me this dream that Jesus came to her all dressed in white he was the conductor of a ghost train and was coming to take her to Heaven exterior Whistle Stop Cafe 1932 night a black pickup truck slowly drives up behind the cafe turns off lights nothing but the sound of the leaves as he gets closer interior back of Cafe sipy is eating biscuits and honey and listening to the radio playing the gospel I'm going home on the morning train while naughty bird and Buddy Jr both sleep peacefully the back room the back door is kicked open Frank Bennett crashes into the room with a rifle and looks around he heads for the crib the back door is kicked open startled sipy runs at him and grabs her by her dress and throws her across the room like a ragd doll he goes over and is standing over the crib you leave that baby alone that's Miss Ruth's baby get away from me [ __ ] before I kill you he slams her with the of the gun

across the wi of her face he crashes against the wall slides to the floor out Cold Blood blood coming from her ear naughty bird wakes up screams and runs to her Bennett picks up the baby wraps him in a blanket and Carries him out the back door wake up Grandma wake up sipsy doesn't respond exterior Cafe Frank comes out the back door opens the door to his truck slips The Sleeping Baby onto the seat as he backs out of the truck sipy appears behind him with blood on her face and clobbers him over the head with an iron skillet we hear a thunk he falls heavy and Silent as a tree sipy steps over the body and gathers the baby out of the truck into her arms ain't nobody going to take get this baby no sir not while I'm alive she heads for the cafe with him naughty bird is frozen in the doorway watching her terrified sipsy carries the baby past her go fetch Miss George honey I done kill me a white

man interior School auditorium Whistle Stop night stage Banner 1932 Christmas Foles the whole town is jammed in igy and Grady are on Grady is an Iggy in tails and Top Hat Essie Ru is on the piano one thing a woman expects when she marries is Sy sympathy well haven't you got it since you married me yes I sure have from the whole town laughter igy comes off stage big George shows up and Whispers to her exterior garden shed igy walks out shaken and looks at Big George sipy joins them it was he he'd a taken buddy Over My Dead Body but I can't see a jury of white people caring what I did Lord looks like I'll be visiting you sooner than I expected wait a minute I'm not going to sit on my butt and watch Justice be butchered again no I guess it is hog bowling time no ma'am it's too cold I think you're wrong George exterior back of Cafe day big George is splitting some ribs and then dropping them in the barbecue pot out

behind the cafe Grady and Curtis smoo are standing there talking to him naughty bird stands behind her father her eyes as wide as saucers when is this barbecue going to be ready in a few minutes yes sir it's going to be ready in a few minutes is she really barbecue Frank Bennett or are you pulling my leg the sacrs in the sauce or sore I'm told and now you know what is she had to go to trial she knew the law would never have believed sipy no sipsy big George or anybody else of color would have been hanging from the nearest tree to this day I'm still not sure whether Ruth ever believed that igy didn't kill Frank Bennett the truth's a funny thing sometimes a beat of reflection and silence ninnie you've gotten to come to my house and live with me you got to Evelyn would Ed's Aunt be coming home with you too no she she told Ed she didn't want to live to leave Mr dunway thank God good don't don't like her either oh it's

not that it's just that I always wanted to be an only child come on let's walk back to my car oh Evelyn you've given me back my hope reminded me what's most important in life you know what I think that is what friends best friends look the two men walk away as naughty bird looks at her daddy so scared she has forgotten how to Blink igy watches from the window interior Cafe kitchen later zipsy is placing two plates of barbecue on a tray sipy I'm coming now hold on a knock at the screen door sipy harried goes over and opens the door osie is standing there what do you want we want some barbes c not today you don't in interior Cafe day Cy passes by detective Curtis Smoot who is polishing off a plate of barbecue I believe this is about the best barbecue I've ever ate yes sir the secrets in the Su igy is grinning from ear to ear exterior Whistle Stop Cemetery present day Evelyn is walking with ninny through

the town of whistl stop ninny stops at the church where there's a cemetery my God and that fry and pan did more than fried chicken that night nitty points at a tombstone which reads Ruth Jameson born 1903 died 1939 gone but not forgotten there's some wild flowers and a note resting in the shade below the stone Evelyn picks up the note revealing a small jar of honey she opens the note and reads it I'll Always Love You the be charmer Evelyn smiles to herself and then notices ninny walking out of the cemetery towards the town of Whistle Stop Evelyn impulsively cries out didn't she ninny instinctively turns her head and smiles at Evelyn who shakes her head for a second and then scurries after her from the distance we can see Evelyn approach ninnie Angie's still alive yes why why didn't you tell me you didn't ask well she's out there somewhere running free Charming bees and selling honey every once in a while I'll catch a

hint of her maybe will'll see her one day soon oh you've been holding out on me haven't you let's go to home and then you have to tell me everything arm inarm they walk through the dilapidated remains of the town of Whistle Stop Evelyn starts asking nin all the questions that now come to her mind about 's life the camera Rises up and follows them into the town as we hear the voices from the past echo through this repository of memories until we again hear the ghost trains whistle and the clatter of its wheels that approaches as it approaches the town the red leaves of Fall start blowing in the wind as the train noise crochet windows and again no train actually appears after Ruth died and the railroad stopped running and the ca Cafe shut down everybody just scattered to the winds it was never more than just a little knockabout place but now now that I look back on it when that Cafe closed

the heart of the town just stopped beating it is funny how a little place like this brought so many people together the camera cranes down past nin and Evelyn as they walk through the town the camera continues over the vines of the Kudzu until it comes to rest on a faded sign that says Fried Green Tomatoes served at the Whistle Stop Cafe the end w we made it through oh my goodness oh good yeah this still pretty close to the movie they made a few changes yeah I've watched um all the deleted scenes and there are some scenes in here that they did film but they deleted right yeah yeah that was like um Goonies there were scenes in that script were going gorillas yeah evidentally they did actually film those scenes but they just didn't put them in there for us to see I know there was a line about like and the scariest part was the giant octopus or something and right they had filmed it but they yeah we we we watched

it actually I think you went watch them on YouTube yeah it the octopus is in the out takes yeah there's you can see yeah so I don't know how much more talk I have because it's pretty late it is late well I'll tell you this was my favorite movie and uh when I had to do an internship in college I did my internship at Avet Kerner where because they had made this movie and there was a script for fried green tomatoes too in their file cabinets oh there was a sequel written there was a sequel written but I read the first few pages and I was like this is all wrong so I never read it like for example the first few pages I said big George was married to sipy and I was like this is all wrong they are mother and son yeah okay someone went crazy and yeah wrote a silly script I love but also like they could have done a a sequel because this story is half of the book they left out a lot of the characters they just hint at them in the

movie I haven't read the book yet oh it's really good and it's all done kind of like this where um what I've heard in the past is that Fanny flag has ADHD and so she writes only short chapters so the story is told in like one to two page chapters and it goes back and forth all over the place and she always puts herself self in the story as a character named dot or Dorothy or Doty so there's these little stories about Whistle Stop written by the local town newsperson named dot weams oh that's her and the story was based on her real Aunt oh really that's cool yeah yeah I a lot of that uh one movie we or one like short story we have to listen to Canada like all the time it's one where the woman like hits her husband with the ham and then feeds the we murder weapon to the police forget what it's called but it's very popular can like it's like reminding me of it this entire like my gosh I was trying so hard not to spoil

the ending for you Jackson seen it I know not not ready I was like oh my gosh oh my this yeah I it really makes me want to watch the movie so I think I know is good yeah it's worth it it's well done there were several drafts of the script and I guess the first few were written by Fanny flag and they weren't up to par to a script so John Abnet took it over and there was you know SE one version of the script where ninnie is older Iggy and in the final script she is not she is married to VI's brother but some enough of the hints are left in there that a lot of people still think that nin was igy yeah um when I first watched it before getting to the end that was the conclusion I thought I had gotten to and then realized oh no okay nope no but the all the hints were intentionally still left in there yeah worked with me yeah but in the book there are more obviously two different people and they did leave out some good

stuff for like the book made the the lesbian love a little more obvious even the script made it a little more obvious but the final version was less obvious and again I caught that in the movie they didn't make it obvious but yeah no but also uh Mary St Masterson and Mary Louise Parker um called on the set by their ni names Mary Lou and Mary stu um were uh decided to make it obvious in their acting right and then John Avet filmed the the in the movie there's a food fight scene between them that's only a little bit in the script and they decided that was the sex scene of the movie that makes sense I mean food is very sexual that very cool um added info that there's some people I wish I could tell um my one of my best friends from high school loved this movie but she passed in 2008 so she watched us I'm sure she saw us this was I saw this in the theaters when I was 11 when it first came out and I went with my mom and her best

friend and I was like I don't want to see that old lady movie and then it became my favorite movie that's like uh I went to Dr shivago when I was well when with the year it came out I don't know what year that was but I was a kid and I went by myself and I loved it so much it was a matina Saturday matina I went home and said to Mom we need to go and see this and she said when and I as soon as we're done supper we're going to go and so I watched that twice in one day but which means I really did nothing else that day so long movie but yeah I've watched this one over and over I could tell you had because you added in the correct the movie version of a line that wasn't in the script fool yeah yeah I know that fool I I could not put that in there yeah yes and it had been long enough since seeing it I I forgot bits which made it kind of fresh but I want to read the book now yeah if I can find it in bold

print um actually in the last couple years she came out with a sequel she did yeah I have been meaning to read it but I haven't yet but it's about um stump older oh I love playing stump it goes back I think it goes back into the the youth and the young idy and stuff but I haven't read yet you could check it out I love how Evelyn gets so empowered by the end yeah so confident that was my favorite character she was just so happy at the end and so confident knew bu up to how can you accidentally hit a car six times 16 three times I keep switching up that dude's voice you made a great housewife Jackson it really that was fun yeah it was it was fun I enjoyed it I like when I get to be really emotionally dramatic like when they're or when they're crying or when they're like when anybody's like that's like my favorite things to act out is like anger or emotions or like KY Express motion yeah I just looked it up the name of the

sequel is called the Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop The Wonder Boy this stop see I can get a copy of that well I know we're all tired it's late thanks for doing my favorite movie with me guys oh thank you for joining us we've missed you Aaron you too and nice to meet you Jackson yeah this was a good night even though we lost part of our cast a third of it these things happen yeah for long long script I'm not sure what's next um I know Mrs is D fire oh is that one next G so much fun that's why I'm all practicing puppet okay it's too late I can't do it right now well especially after just you know a whole movie of Southern Accents yeah Alabama so all right Mrs staire I'll get the uh get the um call event page up up I've actually shuffled my life we're going camping a week earlier than we were going to so that there's no rushing back home to do Mrs Stout and then back out to Camp again like I'm

doing tomorrow ah I'm not complaining what commitment well you know there's only certain ones I do it for really well I hope it didn't rain it was raining all week this last week when I was out camping so sorry I was in a tent at least my poor son was not he was doing this zombie apocalypse camp and they were staying out the woods under under trees wet I would not be a happy camper no I felt so sorry for those kids that they had I think they had fun at least time so their their mission was to like infiltrate main camp and acquire items like a stove and a pot so you can make hot water but being seen of course you know ah so sounds fun yeah it was a the concept was really good the implementation might need a bit more work I could do it you remember the old TV show soap I'm like that guy now I'm invisible no one can see me I don't care I ignore you you have to ignore me poor guy he really believed he was

invisible when he did that okay see how tired I am I'm dabling I am going to say good night all right well good night to all of you as well good night thank you so much for a wonderful read thank you byebye bye bye have fun storm in the castle yes

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "FRIED GREEN TOMATOES--Table Read Tuesdays"?

Cat Wilson (Host), Jackson Gray (Guest), Vicky Dykes (Host), Aubrey (Guest), Aaron (Guest), Tamir (Guest).

What is "FRIED GREEN TOMATOES--Table Read Tuesdays" about?

The content features a table read of "Fried Green Tomatoes," showcasing a diverse cast of characters and their introductions. Each participant shares their name, roles, preferred pronouns, location, and social media handles, setting the stage for an engaging reading of the beloved story.

What is mentioned in this Table Read Tuesdays episode?

15 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Fried Green Tomatoes, Evelyn Couch, Ruth Jamison, Big George, Bob Bennett, Whistle Stop Cafe. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "FRIED GREEN TOMATOES--Table Read Tuesdays"?

The episode runs 3 h 54 min; the transcript is about 29,884 words in 170 timestamped sections.

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About this transcript: the episode's spoken words as captioned on YouTube, split into timestamped sections. Reclip.Me locates every person, work and idea in the text, keeps the time it is first named, and quotes the words around it verbatim. Last updated January 24, 2026.