Stonewall
All actors and roles (10)
All team (61)
Short description
Stonewall is set in New York City in the summer of 1969, in the weeks leading up to the clashes at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village. A young man named Matty Dean arrives in the city and finds his way to the bar, where drag queens and gay men gather. He meets La Miranda, a Puerto Rican drag queen, and Ethan, who is involved in a group campaigning for gay rights. Matty comes to see that polite, patient protest is not the path he wants, and the story moves toward the confrontation between the bar's regulars and the police.
The film was directed by Nigel Finch, his second feature after Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood, and was written by Martin Duberman and Rikki Beadle Blair, based on Duberman's book. It was produced by Christine Vachon and Ruth Caleb for Killer Films and the BBC. Guillermo Díaz plays La Miranda, Frederick Weller plays Matty Dean, and Duane Boutte, Bruce MacVittie, Brendan Corbalis and Luis Guzmán appear among a credited cast of 53, with 61 crew members credited.
Released in December 1995, the film runs 99 minutes and blends comedy, drama, history and romance. On TMDB it holds a rating of 5.8 out of 10 from 30 votes.
What's left behind the scenes
- The poster that is nailed to the wall at the beginning of the film was actually hanging on the facade of the Stonewall Inn in September 1969. The inscription on the poster read: «We, homosexuals, ask our people to help maintain peaceful and quiet behavior in Greenwich Village whenever possible. Mattachine».
- The song sung by Matty Dean after the rally on the bus is the American patriotic song "Battle Hymn of the Republic," written in honor of abolitionist John Brown, who led a revolt against slavery in the United States in 1859 and was executed for treason.
- The scene in the film where the characters are refused alcohol is inaccurate, as the law prohibiting the sale of alcohol to homosexuals was repealed in 1966, three years before the events depicted in the film. Furthermore, this law was never enforced at the Stonewall Inn.
- The film's character Matty could not have participated in the Mattachine Society picket in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, as it took place on July 4, 1969, eight days after the final events of the film.
- It has not been proven that the death of actress Judy Garland was a motivating factor in the Stonewall riots.
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