- Actors: Guillermo Díaz, Frederick Weller, Brendan Corbalis, Duane Boutte, Bruce MacVittie
- Directors: Nigel Finch
- Writers: Martin Duberman, Rikki Beadle Blair
- Producers: Anthony Wall, Christine Vachon, George Faber, Matthew Hamilton, Ruth Caleb
- Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Import
- Language: English
- Region: All Regions
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
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- Studio: Fox Lorber
- Release Date: Oct 26 1999
- Run Time: 99 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- ASIN: 1572526483
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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 Stonewall. 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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4.0 out of 5 stars
Great version of the Stonewall story,
By DonMac "butchm" (Lynn, MA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Stonewall (Full Screen) (DVD)
All accurate? Perhaps not, but a well told story. The actors do a great job in their roles and any liberties taken with history are either reverential or entertaining. The drag queen version of a greek chorus is too cool.
1.0 out of 5 stars
This movie sucked!,
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This review is from: Stonewall (Full Screen) (DVD)
There really isn't much more to say, but I'm sure I can find something... Let's see, the acting was next to terrible, the plot lacked anything dynamic, and for the most part it was just boring. It did have it's good points though (the most important one being that it eventually ended). There were some nice butt shots, unfortunately they weren't of very nice butts. There were some ok drag numbers. The only decent part of this movie was the riot scene, and that doesn't happen untill the end (hope I'm not giving away the ending!)Anyway, I would not reccomend this movie to anyone!
4.0 out of 5 stars
if only all history lessons could be like this!,
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This review is from: Stonewall (Full Screen) (DVD)
The riots at the Stonewall bar are still remembered yearly during the Gay Pride/Mardi Gras events all over the world, although I don't think everyone realises this. It shows how much things have changed since then. This movie tells the story of transvestite Miranda (Guillermo Diaz, who also plays in the wonderful I Think I Do), and how she experienced the events leading up to the riots. Even though the story is serious, the film deals with it in a very light way with many funny moments. The scenes with some of the transvestites miming to songs fit in very well with the rest. A great film that makes you realise how difficult it must have been (and even now I recognise people who think gays and lesbians should adjust to whatever the straight world wants us to be in order to be accepted, whereas I believe everyone should be able to be whatever they want to be (without hurting anyone else)), but leaving you with a very good feeling afterwards.
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