If These Walls Could Talk 2

If These Walls Could Talk 2
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Written by	Jane Anderson Sylvia Sichel Alex Sichel Anne Heche
Directed by	Jane Anderson Martha Coolidge Anne Heche
Starring	Vanessa Redgrave Chloë Sevigny Michelle Williams Sharon Stone Ellen DeGeneres
Music by	Basil Poledouris
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
Production
Producer(s)	Mary Kane
Cinematography	Paul Elliott Robbie Greenberg Peter Deming
Editor(s)	Margaret Goodspeed
Running time	96 minutes
Distributor	HBO
Release
Original release	USA March 5, 2000 UK November 2000
Chronology
Preceded by	If These Walls Could Talk

If These Walls Could Talk 2 is a 2000 television movie in the United States, broadcast on HBO. It follows three separate storylines about lesbian couples in three different time periods. As with the original If These Walls Could Talk, all the stories are set in the same house across different time periods.

The segments were directed by Jane Anderson, Martha Coolidge, and Anne Heche respectively.

An elderly couple, Edith (Vanessa Redgrave) and Abby (Marian Seldes) sit in a cinema watching a lesbian-themed film The Children's Hour. 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. Later, at the home they have shared for 30 years, Abby falls from a ladder. At the hospital, the doctors tell Edith that Abby may have suffered a stroke. Edith asks to see Abby but is not permitted as she is not a family member. 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.

Edith telephones Abby's nephew, Ted (Paul Giamatti), her only living relative, to tell him the news. Before Ted and his family come for the funeral, Edith removes all traces that they were a couple. She makes it look like they had separate bedrooms and removes photographs of the two of them together. At the house afterwards, Ted and Edith talk about the fact that the house was in Abby's name. Although Edith contributed equally to the mortgage, she legally owns no part of it. As Alice packs up Abby's belongings, Ted tells Edith that he would consider letting Edith staying in the house and paying him rent. Edith tells him that Abby would have wanted her to stay in the house, as that was what they always talked about. 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 till she finds a new place before putting the house on the market. 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.

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