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More Tales of the City : Mouse Dictates a Letter to His Parents

While Michael "Mouse" Tolliver (Paul Hopkins) is in the hospital with an acute illness, Mona (Nina Siemaszko) reads him a letter from his parents filled with homophobic remarks. After Mona and Anna (Olympia Dukakis) comfort him, he asks to dictate a letter in response where he comes out as gay.. Season 1, Episode 4

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arc, television, beat, emotion, beat, event, character, character development, close-up, dialogue, eyeline match, high angle, medium close-up, medium long shot, medium shot, monologue, music, empathetic, music, nondiegetic, point-of-view shot, prop, shot/reverse shot

Diversity in Media Representation

LGBTQ: Bisexual Woman:, LGBTQ: Cisgender Female, LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Gay Man, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Woman, LGBTQ: Transgender Woman, White: White American

"Mouse Dictates a Letter to His Parents" in More Tales of the City. Directed by , Working Title Films, 1998-06-08, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/SeriesClip.php?id=3078

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