Monday, Aug. 13 — 2 p.m.
A woman learns the value of friendshipas she hears the story of two women andhow their friendship shaped their livesin this warm comedy-drama. Evelyn Couch(Kathy Bates) is an emotionally repressedhousewife. Her husband Ed (Gailard Sartain)barely acknowledges her existence. Ed andEvelyn visit his aunt at a nursing home everyweek. One week Evelyn meets NinnyThreadgoode (Jessica Tandy), a frail butfeisty old woman who lives at the samenursing home and loves to tell stories.Over the span of several weeks, she spinsa whopper about one of her relatives,Idgie (Mary Stuart Masterson).
