Tales of the City - The Complete Series

Tales of the City - The Complete Series
by Alastair Reid

Tales of the City - The Complete Series
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Actor: Chloe Webb, Donald Moffat, Laura Linney, Marcus D'Amico, Olympia Dukakis
Director: Alastair Reid
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Box set, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Release Date: 1994-04-19
Audience Rating: Unrated
Publisher: Polygram Video
Studio: Polygram Video

VHS Movie Reviews of Tales of the City - The Complete Series

Movie Review: Loved the movie, but....
Summary: 3 Stars

I gave my VHS copy of this film away years ago, planning to buy it on dvd. Before I did, I read the reviews here and found that the dvd version is censored and for that reason I haven't bought it.

I love the film, but I want it the way it was made to be.

Does anyone know if a true unedited version is planned?

Summary of Tales of the City - The Complete Series

"The City" in question is San Francisco, and the tales are novelist Armistead Maupin's, his romantic, affectionate, and spirited homage to the glory days of his hometown. Maupin's idea of SF's glory days isn't the drug-filled Summer of Love (1967), but rather the drug-filled lust-in of the late '70s. Replacing acid with coke and ludes, psychedelia for disco, this six-hour miniseries (which caused controversy for its open drug use, nudity, and direct depiction of homosexuality upon its initial airing on PBS) follows the romantic struggles and identity crises of a colorful cast of characters. The action--as addictive as the drugs the characters ingest--is seen mostly from the innocent point of view of Mary Ann, the city's newest culture-shocked resident--so its presentation is rather decadent and hedonistic. Because the story originally ran as a daily serial in the San Francisco Chronicle before being compiled into a novel, its serialized structure suffers from typical soap-opera mawkishness and the need to shock with ridiculous revelations. Thankfully, this degeneration mostly occurs during the final two hours, allowing you to just enjoy the personalities and hilarious and often-touching interactions of the richly drawn characters before they're manipulated by plot devices. The performances are all outstanding, especially Chloe Webb's spacey ex-hippie Mona, Marcus D'Amico's romantically doomed Michael, and Olympia Dukakis's Anna Madrigal, the enigmatic mother hen/landlady of many of the film's central characters. --Dave McCoy

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