Stonewall

Danny Winters is a gay teenager living in a small Indiana town in the late 1960s. When his parents throw him out, he leaves his younger sister Phoebe behind and travels to New York, where he finds himself broke and without a place to stay. In Greenwich Village he falls in with a group of street kids who take him to the Stonewall Inn, a bar run by the mafia and frequented by drag queens, gay men and lesbians. The club offers little safety, and Danny, his friend Trevor and the others face mistreatment from the management and repeated harassment from the police. Tensions build until officers raid the bar, setting off the uprising of June 1969 that is widely seen as a turning point for the modern gay rights movement.

Roland Emmerich directed the film, the twelfth of fifteen features he has made, following White House Down and preceding Independence Day: Resurgence. Jon Robin Baitz wrote the screenplay, and Emmerich produced with Carsten H.W. Lorenz and Marc Frydman. Jeremy Irvine plays Danny, with Jonny Beauchamp, Joey King, Caleb Landry Jones, Matt Craven and David Cubitt among the fifty credited cast members.

Made for a budget of about 14 million dollars, the film drew a 5.4 rating on IMDb from roughly 4,700 votes and a 6 on TMDB from about 150 votes, while a critics' score of 3.6 from seventy-five reviews places it well below the audience figures.