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Reviewed by bkoganbing 8 / 10

There are several thousand Stonewall stories in the Big Apple, this is one of them.

The major value of the film Stonewall is to remind all of us just what gay people dealt with before a big rebellion took place in the last week of June in 1969. The film is based on a novel by historian Martin Duberman and the director Nigel Finch died before his testament of the Stonewall Rebellion could be seen and appreciated.A couple of love stories are involved here. Country boy Frederick Weller arrives from Kansas and he's hoping that New York City will be more accepting of him. Or at least he'll find a community of sorts. That part of the story hasn't ever changed. He's caught between young closeted gay lawyer Brendan Corbalis and professional drag queen Guillermo Diaz.The second love story is between the owner of the Stonewall Inn and a drag queen played by Bruce MacVittie and Duane Boutte. MacVittie has lived all his life with all the insane rules placed on same sex contact by society and its criminal code against sodomy. Boutte is ready to rebel, but MacVittie counsels go slow it's the way of things in this world. Still he's having just about enough of it.Weller is a rebellious sort, he gets caught in a bar raid the first night he's in New York. Apparently the concept of freedom in America doesn't extend to those who love of the same sex. He finds the Mattachine Society with their button down ways and it ain't for him. But in a way they do fire his revolutionary ardor.The Mattachine Society comes in for quite a beating in Stonewall. They were a radical concept in their idea when the mere idea of protesting these laws was radical. In a scene laced with humor and irony Weller is with a group with accompanying press who challenges the law against serving liquor to known homosexuals. Yes there indeed was such a law. The only place that enforces the ordinance is a gay bar because they're afraid of police entrapment.Of course the end of the film is the riot at the Stonewall Inn which sparked a movement. The unbelievable but true twist on events is the cops including the NYPD's crack tactical police unit equipped for riots retreating into a newly emptied Stonewall Inn for their own safety is truly a sight to behold.This is a fine film which captures the spirit of that night when it wasn't button down businessmen and lawyers, but rebels in high heels who changed America and the world.

Reviewed by Sleepin_Dragon 8 / 10

This film holds up really well, it tells a significant and important story.

1969, small town boy Matty Dean arrives in New York City, he instantly befriends drag Queen La Miranda. Matty joins a group of people who are looking to make a positive change.It's amazing to think that such attitudes actually existed at the time, things really have changed so much.An interesting mix, most of it is clearly made up, but there are definitely some actual events tied in, it's worth reading into the history of Stonewall, its importance, and what it means.It's still a very good watch almost two decades on, it s a vibrant looking film, which tells a truly important and interesting story. There is some violence, but it mainly comes at the end, in a show down with The Police.'For the sheer, irresistible, god damn glamour of it all.' The dialogue is priceless from start to finish, there are some fabulous one liners throughout, most of them come from La Miranda.The music is as big a character as Matty and La Miranda, it's terrific, it first the film so well. The Glory Glory Hallelujah scene on the bus was tremendous.The acting is quite something, Guillermo Diaz delivers a first rate performance as La Miranda, so sincere, Frederick Weller is great as the fresh faced Matty Dean also, so well cast.Very good film.8/10.

Reviewed by BookWorm-2 7 / 10

The spirit is right; the details are wrong

I have a great deal of admiration for this engaging effort to explain the roots of the modern gay rights movement, produced on a shoe-string by a director with an admirable sense of style, pacing, and resourcefulness. Though filtered through a distinctly British class-consciousness, it does a highly respectable job of catching the main trends in gay America from my not-quite-misspent youth.Furthermore, it is candidly presented as a subjective, fictional account, mooting complaints like "the bus is too old," "no New York apartment is that big" and "the Stonewall bar never looked that clean."Nonetheless, one small detail and one large item are egregiously wrong. The detail is the rather elementary fact that the Stonewall was never licensed; it was a "private" mob-run club. It was raided not because all cops are homophobes but because, in the absence of official licensing, gay bars were, in every sense, illegal. The scenes where Stonewall employees display great care about the liquor laws are ridiculous, since the bar operated outside the law.The larger item is the failure to capture the sense of exhilaration that swept throught the country in 1969. This was the year men walked on the moon, the year of Woodstock, the year an X-rated gay-themed film ("Midnight Cowboy") won the "Best Picture" Oscar, and (biggest miracle of all to us New Yorkers) the year the Mets, long "lovable losers," won the World Series. Anything was possible, and gay people joined the party with enthusiasm.

Stonewall

1995

Comedy / Drama / Romance

Stonewall

1995

Comedy / Drama / Romance

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There are several thousand Stonewall stories in the Big Apple, this is one of them.

This film holds up really well, it tells a significant and important story.

The spirit is right; the details are wrong

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