Brendan Corbalis, Bruce MacVittie, Duane Boutte, Fred Weller, Frederick Weller ...( see more  see more... ) , Guillermo Díaz , Stonewall Jackson

The fictional story line of Stonewall is framed by a piece of re-created gay history that has been chronicled before, primarily in such documentaries as Before Stonewall and After Stonewall. But here ...( read more  read more... )director Nigel Finch constructs a multilayered entertainment set in and around the Stonewall riots of June 1969 (in New York) that marked the start of gay rights and activism. Stonewall is engaging and sympathetic to the plight of gays everywhere, who survived a world where homosexuality was a fate worse than death (and often resulted in it). This is a movie about survival, oppression, and the self-loathing that is inflicted by a world that refuses to understand anything different from mainstream morality. Within that dynamic is a familiar subplot about a young rube, Matty (Fred Weller), who comes from the Midwest to the big city in order to find himself and falls for a drag queen named La Miranda (Guillermo Díaz) in the process. Finch, who died prior to the film's completion (it was finished by producer Christine Vachon), uncovers something joyous in the angst of his characters and in the factual context of material that might have seemed overworked in less committed hands. --Paula Nechak

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R, 99 min.

Directed by: Nigel Finch

Release Date: July 26, 1996

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DVD Release Date: February 13, 2001

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  • July 12, 2009
    Y bueno que sabia que era Stonewall pero no tenia mucha idea de que iba y no es que esta pelicula le sea muy fiel pero si se me hace que es la historia desde el punto de vista de una persona, es divertida y es una muestrra mas de amora "rarito"
  • January 5, 2009
    An interesting look into some of the players of the time and their parts in this momentous time in LGBT history.
  • June 20, 2007
    To think it was considered a crime for a man to dress up as a woman. This world has come a long way.
  • December 10, 2006
    Not a very good movie. I wouldnt ever watch this movie again.
  • October 9, 2006
    This film should be a lot better. It's good, but it should me brilliant. It's talking of the most important time in gay history, and really doesn't do itself justice.

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