Stonewall

The birth of the gay rights movement gets a fictionalized treatment in this drama based loosely on the acclaimed documentary of the same name by Martin Duberman. In 1969, Matty Dean (Fred Weller) arrives in New York City's Greenwich Village hoping that life there will provide the sexual liberation ...more

Part historical drama, part gay melodrama and part mythic drag fantasia, Stonewall tries to be too many things at once. Although screenwriter Rikki Beadle Blair and director Nigel Finch deserve credit for not turning the film into a dour political treatise, they lose points for indulging in post-Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert camp. The film is completely upfront about its anachronisms and poetic license, but that doesn't necessarily make them valid artistic choices. That said, the ...more