If These Walls Could Talk.

[SanFranciscan]

I have watched a couple of discs of a series called "If These Walls Could Talk." It is about the residents of a house over several decades. For whatever reason the stories so far have all been about women, but the women in each episode do not know each other.

On the disc that I just returned the first episode is about a "lesbian widow" in 1961. After her roommate dies, and after the two of them have been together for 30 years and paid off a mortgage together, the nephew of the deceased shows up and kicks the old lady out. It is very touching without showing the nephew and his family as just evil monsters. He is concerned about his tax debt on the house after his aunt dies without a will and his responsibility for maintenance upon the house when he tells her that she will be compensated for her contribution to the house payments after he sells the house. The survivor in the same-sex relationship is longing to remain in the house that she shared with her girlfriend while in mourning for the girlfriend. Yet it is not maudlin mess type of movie either.

What it is is the best argument for the right to same-sex marriage as could be imagined. There was no "bad person vs. good person" scenario. There were good people in a bad situation. Yet it brings home how much opposing legal recognition of same-sex relationships is messing with people's lives, even after these very same people are no longer alive.

 

[C&G'sMama]

I remember that mini-series. That one was "If these Walls Could Talk 2" The first series was a house over time that involved abortion and A woman's right to choose over the decades. Cher is in the final installment of that series. These both came out well over 10 years ago if I remember correctly on HBO. I have them both on VHS somewhere, I'll have to dig them up and dust of the tape player.
Thanks for reminding me about these.

 

[TagsMissy]

I remember that series too.. had to be at least a decade or so ago. They were very well done I recall.