Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7218 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-09-05
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 324 minutes

DVD Description

The Tales Of The City - Series 1 DVD contains the first installment of the TV miniseries based on the books by Armistead Maupin. Tales Of The City--the prelude to "More Tales of the City" and "Further Tales of the City"--follows the lives of a diverse group of individuals from San Francisco who are all searching for love. Meet Anna Madrigal, the bizarre landlady, Mona Ramsey, who is unaware that she is Anna's daughter, Michael 'Mouse' Tolliver, the gay Floridian whose parents think he is straight, and many more interesting characters...

Customer Reviews

Drama at its best
I enjoyed this witty, intelligent and moving serial when it was first aired in the UK. I've since watched it a couple of times on DVD and it stands up very well. The performances from all the lead actors are impressive, and the way the different plots are interwoven is an object lesson in unforced artifice. There are so many good gags, so many plot twists, and so many moments of true pathos that it's impossible to point to the highlights. Suffice to say that, if you buy or rent this, you've got real entertainment.

A gem!

A hidden gem for me as I came across to it by chance! However, as the character Mrs Madriga says "you don't choose Barbary Lane, it choses you".

An amazing combination of "Sex and the city" and "Queer as Folk", with the only difference that it is their predecessor by a decade or more. Also, it is more political, poetic and romantic focusing on the life experiences and the struggles of its characters, rather than the latest Manolo Blahnik or the new Prada collection as highlights in someone's life.

I couldn't recommend this DVD more. Flirts with the quality of a Tennessee Williams theatrical play, but in a more openly gay and liberated way as it is the city itself.

Every character is capturing but "Mouse" played by Marcus D'Amico will steal your heart.

Excellent characters, more "scenes" than "tales".
I bought this series knowing nothing about it, and was pleasantly surprised.

The first episode is superb, it very much reminded me of arriving at University to similar experiences.

From then on it becomes voyeuristic. Too many bizzarre ideas are thrown in, none of them properly developed. Far too much is left to the imagination.

Too much jam, not enough donut. Could have been so much better.