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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 St...( read more 
). But here 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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MCT: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.
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MCT:October 9, 2006This 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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MCT:August 8, 2006
Gives us a light hearted insight to the begninnings of the gay rights movement. In the days after Judy Garland's death, a major riot broke out in NY's Gay sector..namely the Stonewall Inn. When the Stonewall is once again raided, everyone inside, already emotional after Garland's death decide that enough is enough, and so started what is known as the modern Gay rights movement. Great flick, emotionally on the level and realistic. The fictional storyline is woven in with the real-life drama that eventually unfolded in 1969. The drag pieces are also fun to watch.
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