If These Walls Could Talk 2

2000 "Women love women."
6.9| 1h36m| R| en| More Info
Released: 05 March 2000 Released
Producted By: Team Todd
Country: United States of America
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The stories of three lesbian couples -- who live in the same house at different periods of time -- who are at a crossroads in their lives. In 1961, Edith loses her lover, Abby, to a stroke. Linda and Amy struggle with feminist issues in 1972. And, in 2000, Kal and Fran try to have a baby with the help of sperm donor.

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Drama, Romance

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Martha Coolidge, Anne Heche, Jane Anderson

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Team Todd

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Kidskycom It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.
Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
Davis P This sequel to the abortion focused TV Movie, if these walls could talk, focuses on three different lesbian couples living in the same house over different time periods. This is done in an episodic way just like the first movie. The first time period is 1961. It stars Vanessa Redgrave, Elizabeth Perkins, and Paul Giamatti. Redgrave plays an older senior age woman who lives with her partner. One night after they get back from seeing a movie, her partner falls from a ladder and dies from a stroke. I think the actors did a good job with their roles and I liked the dramatic focused performance given by Redgrave, for which she won a golden globe. The second segment of the movie is set in the early 1970s. It focuses on college girls, exactly like the last segment in the first movie. Michelle Williams and Chloe Sevigny stars here, this part is all about not only their connection and blossoming relationship, but also about feminism and people living their truths, no matter how others see it or think. And the final section stars Ellen DeGeneres and Sharon Stone. I love both of these women and they have great chemistry together. The final segment isn't nearly as heavy or dramatic, it's lighter. And that is nice to have after two pretty heavy sections. I will say that the first part is the most well made, but I did enjoy them all. They fit nicely together. 8/10 for if these walls could talk 2.
Robert J. Maxwell Interesting three segments, arranged chronologically from 1961, though 1972, to 2000, dealing with problems faced by gay women during the three periods. I didn't find any of them truly gripping but probably because I never faced the problems.!. 1961. In some ways, the best of the three episodes. The elderly Vanessa Redgrave's long-time companion dies of a stroke and Redgrave is visited by her lover's relatives, who have inherited the house but who long ago lost contact with their deceased aunt. Lesbianism is never mentioned. This is, after all, 1961, when such things didn't exist except in some sea of iniquity like Greenwich Village where, as a matter of fact, there was a lively lesbian bar at the time called The Swing Rendezvous.The episode features an absolute gem of a carefully controlled performance by Vanessa Redgrave. She magnificent. And the script gives her only one scene-stealing speech, well written and subdued.Unfortunately, the other two characters -- the two young visiting relatives who have come to claim the house and its belongings and throw Redgrave out -- are written as stereotypes. Paul Giamatti's character is practical but abashed. His wife, Perkins, isn't even abashed. She's simply unfeelingly greedy.2. 1972. A transitional period during which half a dozen girls who are university students try to pass themselves off as "normal." They dress like girls, giggle, fake heterosexual interests, and avoid gay bars -- except once. Sometimes once is enough. Chloe Sevigny hangs at the bar and looks and dresses like a man, though neat, and of a gentle demeanor. The others reject her because she's so obvious, but Michelle Williams falls in love with her and eventually moves in. Her gender orientation and bound breasts notwithstanding, Sevigny is irresistible. Nobody can blame Williams for her open display.3. 2000. Sharon Stone and Ellen DeGeneres is a chipper episode about a couple trying to get pregnant because they want a child. It's played as a kind of situation comedy but it doesn't work. If you doubt that it's forced, try imagining the same plot, only with a normal man/woman couple instead of two women.Each episode has its weaknesses and I suspect, in 2000, it no longer took much in the way of courage to make a movie about lesbians and love. Actually there had already been a couple of nicely done flicks about the subject, such as "Desert Hearts" and "Aimee and Jaguar," that were better than "If These Walls Could Talk 2." (What a title.) But, by cracky, you have to hand it to HBO. Here we have a television channel that produces occasional special movies -- and more than one of them have been winners. This isn't going to win any Palms but it's still better than much of the effluent choking the multiplex screens today.
oliver-123 I have not read anyone else's comments on this, so this is my response to having seen a video, purchased cheap. I have for a long time felt a great sympathy (in the sense of fellow feeling) for lesbians, and if these three short dramas did not make all but the most rabid homophobes feel that they were perfectly normal human beings, with the normal human emotions, I don't know what would. The first segment was almost unbearably sad; the second had you willing the central figure to defy the attitudes of her equally lesbian friends and keep dating the woman who was expressing her individuality a different way, which was anathema to the others because it had "male" characteristics; the third portrayed a loving partnership's efforts to get one of them pregnant, and their joy when they finally managed it, extremely well. For me, the acting was uniformly excellent, and I commend everyone involved (some famous names).
Dfredsparks Vanessa Redgrave moved me to no end in the first segment. a great story for people to go back and reflect on as the battle lines are being drawn on the issue of gay marriage. But the second two segments have not held up as well upon repeated viewings. I often just watch the first segment and then change the channel. The other two are not horrible, but the first ITWCT was stonger across the board.