What are the major differences between the novel and the movie Fried Green Tomatoes?

One major difference between the book and the film is that
while the novel explicitly presents the relationship between Idgie and Ruth as lesbian,
the movie is more ambiguous. This initially drew criticism from gay and lesbian
activists because they felt that director Jon Avnet had not clearly defined the
relationship between the two women to make the content more acceptable to Hollywood
standards of the 1990s. In spite of this controversy, the film went on to win a 1992 Gay
and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Award. The following link takes you to an
interesting review of the movie which also discusses its representation of
sexuality

href="http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC39folder/FrGreenTomatoes.html">http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC39folder/FrGreenTomatoes.html

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