Stonewall (1995)

Directed by

Nigel Finch

Genre

drama film, docudrama, comedy drama, romance film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 39m

Rated

R

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 28 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film is a fictionalized account of the weeks before the Stonewall riots in 1969. It follows gay characters in New York City as they face discrimination and prepare for a pivotal uprising. The story mixes drama with musical performances and fake documentary interviews.

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What happens

Stonewall is a 1995 British-American historical comedy-drama film directed by Nigel Finch, his final film before his AIDS-related death shortly after filming ended. Inspired by the memoir of the same title by gay historian Martin Duberman, Stonewall is a fictionalized account of the weeks leading up to the Stonewall riots, a seminal event in the modern American gay rights movement. The film stars Guillermo Díaz, Frederick Weller, Brendan Corbalis, and Duane Boutte. While the film is a work of fiction, Finch makes the unusual directorial choice of including documentary-style interview footage with several people who were at the Stonewall Inn during the uprising. Finch also intersperses lip synch numbers performed by the actors throughout the film to function as something of a Greek chorus. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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