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Summary: cultural facts on gay struggle revealed through fiction
Review: "Stonewall" - The Movie was the last film project by Nigel Finch and he died before it was completed. He succeeds in stunning fashion in combining the joys and struggles of youth in an emerging gay rights movement, with the stories of people who already live through severe struggle every day - Blacks, Latinos, transgenders. "Stonewall" shows that the white middle-class gay men were coming from a privileged position - they try to challenge the law and can't even get themselves refused a drink.
Nigel Finch keeps entertainment as a prime consideration, with occasional asides into fantasy musical numbers and some excellent humour (and true drama). We form emotional bonds with several characters - Matty, Bostonia and La Miranda. Bostonia gives us a rare understanding of each transgender's right to choose what they want for their body. Duane Boutte plays this powerful and pivotal character to perfection.
Just recently I watched a tape of one of my all-time favourite documentaries "Kurt Vonnegut" (1983 BBC Films) and was surprised to find that Nigel Finch was the director. Nigel's style is clearly evident in both these films - vibrant, slightly surreal, superb script, perfectly timed, absolute integrity to the subject matter and totally entertaining.
Just as with "Kurt Vonnegut", "Stonewall" is a valuable piece of cultural history in the most attractive of packaging.
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Summary: Great version of the Stonewall story
Review: All accurate? Perhaps not, but a well told story. The actors do a great job in their roles and any liberties taken with history are either reverential or entertaining. The drag queen version of a greek chorus is too cool.
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Summary: Great version of the Stonewall story
Review: All accurate? Perhaps not, but a well told story. The actors do a great job in their roles and any liberties taken with history are either reverential or entertaining. The drag queen version of a greek chorus is too cool.
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Summary: Thanks to the Stonewall Girls
Review: As a student of gay and lesbian history I approached this movie with a cautious mind. My caution was soon overcome by the fabulous characters, plot and honest (but fictitious) depiction of what it was like to be shunned by society. The Stonewall riots were fought by people who were marginalised in many ways-dykes, latinos, transvestites, drag queens and African-Americans fought the original gay battles that were soon taken over by a white middle class. That is why the movie spoke to me. It showed that the human rights battle is not a white middle class only issue but is an issue no matter who you are.Aside from the history lesson, Stonewall combines a great story, great songs, great characters, embellishes them all with some self-depreciating drag queen wit and punches home a fab movie that leaves you feeling how far we've come and how far we've still got to go. A great human rights story told with love and humour. Buy it. What can I say but "We are the Stonewall girls, we wear our hair in curls la la la la....."
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Summary: Good story, history for those who don't remember
Review: Enjoyed this movie. The (i believe) fictional characters provide an entertaining story and backdrop to the real Stonewall event. We tend to forget how gays & lesbians were treated as real criminals as little as 30 years ago - when police raided gay bars just to beat up the patrons, and get their names published in the daily paper, assuring you that you would lose your job and be outted in a very public way. I was cringing in my seat at some of the stuff we had to deal with back then - considering how open we are today. Really makes you think. Nice film with a cute story against the historical backdrop.
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Summary: Good story, history for those who don't remember
Review: Enjoyed this movie. The (i believe) fictional characters provide an entertaining story and backdrop to the real Stonewall event. We tend to forget how gays & lesbians were treated as real criminals as little as 30 years ago - when police raided gay bars just to beat up the patrons, and get their names published in the daily paper, assuring you that you would lose your job and be outted in a very public way. I was cringing in my seat at some of the stuff we had to deal with back then - considering how open we are today. Really makes you think. Nice film with a cute story against the historical backdrop.
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Summary: O-M-G! I Love This Movie!
Review: I just rented this movie, and I quickly came to Amazon to rate it. If you see any gay movie this year, I highly recomend this one. As a person who knows very little of gay history in America, I was really touched buy this movie......It left me and my partner in shock..... We kept thinking throughout the movie....Dang look at how far Gays have come. When I first rented it, I thought it was just another "Trick" movie, which I love, but soon I found out it was more. This movie is based on a hispanic drag queen, a hill billie, there love, and......oh god, there so mutch, believe me rent it, or buy it here at Amazon. Jeeze, this has awakened my curiosity....know I want to see the Stonewall documentarie...
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Summary: O-M-G! I Love This Movie!
Review: I just rented this movie, and I quickly came to Amazon to rate it. If you see any gay movie this year, I highly recomend this one. As a person who knows very little of gay history in America, I was really touched buy this movie......It left me and my partner in shock..... We kept thinking throughout the movie....Dang look at how far Gays have come. When I first rented it, I thought it was just another "Trick" movie, which I love, but soon I found out it was more. This movie is based on a hispanic drag queen, a hill billie, there love, and......oh god, there so mutch, believe me rent it, or buy it here at Amazon. Jeeze, this has awakened my curiosity....know I want to see the Stonewall documentarie...
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Summary: Who Knew?
Review: I never knew any of the struggles that gays faced in this country. I have always been around people that were always accepting. This movie opened my eyes to the injustices that sparked the Gay revolution. This movie opened my eyes. It made me angry, emotional, and truly grateful to the men and women that stood up for thier rights as human beings. It is an AMAZING MOVIE!!!!
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Summary: Who Knew?
Review: I never knew any of the struggles that gays faced in this country. I have always been around people that were always accepting. This movie opened my eyes to the injustices that sparked the Gay revolution. This movie opened my eyes. It made me angry, emotional, and truly grateful to the men and women that stood up for thier rights as human beings. It is an AMAZING MOVIE!!!!
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