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Further Tales of the City (2001) |
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180
minutes
Rated: NR
Country: US
Studio: Showtime
Cast: Laura Linney, Olympia
Dukakis, Barbara Garrick, Paul
Hopkins, Mary Kay Place, Henry
Czerny, Lea DeLaria, Parker Posey,
Joel Grey, Whip Hubley, Jackie
Burroughs, Bill Campbell, Bruce
McCulloch
Director: Pierre Gang
Screenwriter: Armistead
Maupin, James Lecesne |
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Synopsis |
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN’S FURTHER TALES OF
THE CITY is the third installment of
Maupin’s classic saga of San
Francisco life. Set in 1981, the
three-hour miniseries involves the
residents of 28 Barbary Lane in a
racy and rollicking
adventure/mystery that leaps from
Golden Gate Park to the home of a
Hollywood icon to a remote island in
the Alaskan wilderness. As usual in
Maupin’s world, romantic
entanglements abound. Landlady Anna
Madrigal (OLYMPIA DUKAKIS) is
stunned by her mother’s sudden
arrival. Mother Mucca (JACKIE
BURROUGHS) who runs a bordello in
Nevada is in town to take care of
personal business and meets a man
from her past, Royal Reichenbach
(JOHN MCMARTIN). When Mother Mucca
introduces Anna to Royal, they find
themselves in a rivalry over him.
Madrigal’s tenants have their own
stories from the past to unravel.
Michael Tolliver (PAUL HOPKINS) is
working at a nursery called "Best
Laid Plants." He tries to get over
being dumped by his former lover Dr.
Jon Fielding (BILLY CAMPBELL) who
went off to work on a cruise ship.
Exploring his sexuality full tilt,
Michael embarks on a series of
sexual escapades involving cowboys,
cops and Cage Tyler (JOHN ROBINSON)
a closeted movie star. Michael's
friend and neighbor Mary Ann
Singleton (LAURA LINNEY) is
challenged with a relationship
problem of a different kind. Her
boyfriend and upstairs neighbor,
Brian Hawkins (WHIP HUBLEY) who has
spent most of his adult life as a
womanizer, comes to the realization
that he wants to marry her. She,
however, is hesitant to take the
next step as she is focused on her
career. Longing to become a serious
reporter, but not given a chance by
her station manager, she is forced
to work as a daytime host of the
"Bargain Matinee" show. Mary Ann’s
late boss’ widow, socialite Frannie
Halcyon (DIANA LEBLANC) is tormented
by her daughter DeDe’s (BARBARA
GARRICK) apparent demise in the
Jonestown Massacre. Living on Mai
Tais and sleeping pills, she refuses
to accept that DeDe and her
children, Little Anna and Edgar were
killed. She seeks advice from
psychics to help her find her
missing daughter. When a
fortune-teller convinces her that
DeDe is indeed alive, she asks for
the support of society columnist
Prue Giroux (MARY KAY PLACE) to make
her story public. When Prue refuses
to get involved, Frannie calls Mary
Ann to share her secret. Since Mary
Ann is always searching for a good
story, she is eager to meet in hopes
of finally getting a break on the
evening news.
Meanwhile, Prue meets a mysterious
homeless man, Luke (HENRY CZERNY) in
Golden Gate Park. Immediately drawn
to his intense charm, she falls
madly in love with him. Little does
she know that she’s opening
Pandora’s Box when she attempts to
bring him back to society with the
help of flamboyant celebrity priest
Father Paddy Star (BRUCE MCCULLOCH).
Luke’s past is far more sinister
than Prue could ever imagine. Then
it’s revealed that DeDe Halcyon Day
has spent three years in Cuba with
her lover Dorothea (FRANÇOISE
ROBERTSON) after escaping the
massacre in Guyana. She ends up in a
camp for gay Cuban refugees in Fort
Chafee, Arkansas and finally calls
her mother Frannie in San Francisco
to tell her that she wants to come
home. Through DeDe’s unexpected
reappearance and a twist of fate,
the storylines begin to intertwine
and all of the characters in
Maupin’s tales find themselves in
the midst of an unpredictable
adventure.
See also: Tales of the City, More
Tales of the City |
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