![]() ![]() The next morning Linda sees a picture of Amy as a child, dressed like a boy. Linda goes to Amy's house and apologizes. They cannot understand why a woman would dress like a man when they have fought so hard to escape such stereotypical roles. Linda's friends tease her about Amy and question how they can be taken seriously as feminists if they associate with people like Amy. Linda is embarrassed and is short with Amy who quickly leaves. The next day Linda and the others are arguing with a woman from the feminist group when Amy arrives. Linda invites Amy to return the next day. Later, Amy gives Linda a ride home on her motorcycle and they kiss. The others soon leave and Linda stays behind and dances with Amy. ![]() Amy asks Linda to dance but she refuses while her friends are still there. They laugh at Amy ( Chloë Sevigny), a young butch woman who is wearing a tie. They face conflict with the feminist group they are part of when the other women do not want to include lesbian issues despite the fact that Linda and her friends helped to found the group and fought for free contraception on campus with their straight friends.Īt a lesbian bar they have not been to before, they are surprised and disappointed to see women apparently fulfilling traditional butch and femme roles. Linda ( Michelle Williams), a young student, now shares the house with three friends, all lesbians. The family leaves, with Ted telling Edith that he will be in touch in a couple of weeks to discuss what she is going to do. Ted eventually tells her that it would be better if he sells the house and she finds a place of her own although he says that he'll wait until she finds a new place before putting the house on the market. Edith tells him that Abby would have wanted her to stay in the house, as that was what they always talked about. As Ted’s wife Alice packs up Abby's belongings, Ted tells Edith that he would consider letting Edith staying in the house and paying him rent. ![]() Although Edith contributed equally to the mortgage, she legally owns no part of it. At the house afterwards, Ted and Edith talk about the fact that the house was in Abby's name. She makes it look like they had separate bedrooms and removes photographs of the two of them together. Before Ted and his family come for the funeral, Edith removes all traces that they were a couple. Instead she spends the night in the waiting room and in the morning she learns from a more sympathetic nurse that Abby died alone during the night, and none of the hospital workers informed her after it had happened.Įdith telephones Abby's nephew, Ted ( Paul Giamatti), her only living relative, to tell him the news. Edith asks to see Abby but is not permitted as she is not a family member. At the hospital, the doctors tell Edith that Abby may have suffered a stroke. Later, at the home they have shared for 30 years, Abby falls from a ladder. A couple walks out of the theater in disgust at the film, and a group of kids laugh when they see Edith and Abby holding hands. The three segments, "1961", "1972" and "2000", were directed by Jane Anderson, Martha Coolidge, and Anne Heche, respectively.Īn elderly couple, Edith ( Vanessa Redgrave) and Abby ( Marian Seldes) sit in a cinema watching a lesbian-themed film The Children's Hour. Unlike the earlier film, in which all the stories related to abortion, in this film all the storylines deal with lesbian couples. It is a sequel to the 1996 HBO film If These Walls Could Talk, and like the earlier film is a female-centered anthology film, with three separate segments all set in the same house within three different decades in the 20th century. If These Walls Could Talk 2 is a 2000 television film in the United States, broadcast on HBO. ![]()
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