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If these walls could talk 2
I Enjoyed the move so much that I have shared It with friends. I have learned that there are some thing my lover and I need to do in our relationship.

Walss were talking!
This was a good kind of made for mature audience tv movie. Both Sharon Stone and Ellen Degenerous(spelling) were superb. Going through the time line can educate younger people on how things have changed for acceptance gay people.

This time a triptych of tales about the problems of lesbians
"If These Walls Could Talk 2" is neither as controversial nor as depressing as the first HBO movie in what could be an interesting series if they keep changing the topics as they go along. The first time around the conceit was that all three women who lived in this particular house found themselves pregnant and dealing in different ways at different times in history (post-World War II) with the topic of abortion. This time the house in question is inhabited by lesbians and not only is the death count half what it was before in this 2000 movie, it actually goes with a cute ending, something obviously precluded by the abortion topic.

The common denominator here is to depict the decidedly different problems faced by lesbians at different points in time. In 1961 we have a pair of "maiden aunts," Edith Tree (Vanessa Redgrave) and Abby Hedley (Marian Seldes), who dare not walk too close in public and who have to stop hand holding when anybody might be watching them in a dark movie theater (where, pointedly, "The Children's Hour" is showing). When one of the women dies suddenly, the other has to endure her partner's relatives (Paul Giamatti and Elizabeth Perkins) showing up ready to clean her home out. The fact that the two women were lovers is unspoken, but palatable, as insult is added to injury. When I see something like this, where a relationship that has lasted decades is so casually dismissed because it is socially unacceptable, I always think of the irony that Britney Spears getting drunk and decided to get married in Las Vegas (and then annulled) one weekend in Las Vegas is, in contrast, to be considered a sanctified relationship. Irony abounds. This segment is certainly the most touching of the three, and offers solid performances from all involved.

In 1972 a quartet of lesbian college students are inhabiting the house. In contrast to Tree and Abby, these girls get to flaunt their sexual orientation. Then they discover that they are too blatant for the other feminists on campus who are caught up in the women's liberation movement, and are a decidedly different generation of lesbians from those who came before when they come across a lesbian bar. The culture clash comes crashing down on Linda (Michelle Williams), who finds she is interested in Linda (Chloë Sevigny), who binds her breasts and wears a shirt and a tie. Here the irony is that her housemates (Nia Long, Natasha Lyonne), who do not want to be judged by others, are so willing to judge other lesbians for not doing it the right way. Some lesbians being prejudiced against other lesbians is an interesting twist.

When we get to 2000 the problem faced by Fran (Sharon Stone) and Kal (Ellen DeGeneres) their lesbianism is not so much a problem as a twist. The couple want to have a baby, which means they have to jump through the same sort of hoops faced by couples with more traditional, for lack of a better word, problems with infertility. This segment stands out from the others because it is pure comedy where the conflict is over which sperm donor to use and finding creative ways to keep for Fran to keep her legs in the air to help facilitate the fertilization. Regina King and Kathy Najimy join in on the fun as well.

The 2000 segment was written and directed by Anne Heche, a fact that adds all sorts of interesting elements of irony to watching it. The 1961 segment was written and directed by Jane Anderson, while the 1972 segment is directed by Martha Coolidge with a teleplay by Sylvia Sichel, who wrote the story with Alex Sichel. The three segments are certainly sympathetic to the sexual orientation of the characters, who are spared any overt attacks on their life style, unlike the women in the first film, where both sides were present in all three stories. Now the question is what will they come up for the "If These Walls Could Talk 2"? Will it continue to be a female oriented series or do walls talk about males as well? Stay tuned.

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