Stonewall

2015 "Where Pride Began"
5.3| 2h9m| R| en| More Info
Released: 25 September 2015 Released
Producted By: Centropolis Entertainment
Country: United States of America
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Kicked out by his parents, a gay teenager leaves small-town Indiana for New York's Greenwich Village, where growing discrimination against the gay community leads to riots on June 28, 1969.

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SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped
FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.
Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
Rita Lizzy A movie that talks about an historic event ignoring history and the people who started the movement they talk about. No transgenders, black or white, in the movie. Only focus is Gay people, ignoring not only transgender issues, but the LGBT movement in general. And even without the cis and whitewashing, its still a poor movie, with no charisma and lacks emotion. It at least can bring people together, be straight, gay, cis or trans, everyone can dislike this movie together.
donegalcat I was reluctant to watch Stonewall as I had read much of the criticisms regarding the whitewashing of the historical events. And the criticisms were born out. The Stonewall Inn in the film is overwhelmingly populated by young white men with the lead role going to a white, Midwesterner, new to New York, escaping his small homophobic town. The narrative of this character is a worthwhile story to be told and could have made a decent film. But it does not fit with the story of Stonewall. The film sidelines the trans people, the drag queens, the lesbians, the Latinx and African Americans who played the central role in the actual events of Stonewall. They are given tokenistic roles, in a sop to history, presented there to be mocked and beaten while given no agency in the events of Stonewall.But even beyond the whitewashing of history, this is a poor film. The film, despite is 129 minute length feels far too short as there is no depth to any of its characters. They are merely tokens and plot devices. The plot piles on cliché after cliché. It feels like almost every LGBT film we have ever seen before.But almost worst of all, is that the Stonewall riot barely features in the film. The film is over two hours long, yet its central event lasts just a few minutes near the end of the film. And there is no real build-up to this climax in the way of say 'Do the Right Thing' which is a great film about life in New York.The only good things about this film are the acting performances of Jeremy Irvine and Jonny Beauchamp and a decent soundtrack.Other than that, it is predictable, clichéd and boring on top of whitewashing history. A shameful effort at portraying Stonewall.
kosmasp Some material may sound better on paper than it actual translates on screen. And while this will not be up every-ones ally (which you can tell by the rating and the discrepancies in high and low ones), this did happen to a degree and was worth telling. So while you may not belong to a community that is affected by this, it's a universal theme nonetheless at the end.I haven't checked facts or read upon the real events, so I wouldn't be influenced going into this. But that also means, I can't confirm to what degree this got it right (something quite a lot of people seem to criticize). From a drama point of view it does kind of work though and while it doesn't seem perfect, it is decent
kingwyatt I watched Stonewall last night and did not find it to be the horrible film I expected. It was not a great film either, a solid 6 out of ten. It was visually interesting, the dialog was a bit awkward and a little boring but IMO it accurately portrayed the feeling of 1969/70. Most of the characters were poor LGBT runaways living on the streets who were POC, transgender, dykes/lesbians and a variety of ethnicities. All the cops were white, mostly portrayed as assholes. Was the movie flawed? Absolutely. Perhaps the biggest flaw was calling the film Stonewall. Still I think it is worth seeing. If you can get past expectations of it being a historically correct documentary and watch it as a coming of age/out story about a young man from the country running to the city (which many did), at the end you can get a real reminder why we celebrate LGBT Pride today.