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The film is derivative, as well as whitewashed. There are so many factual goofs, when it comes to clothes, music, etc. The filmmaker needed to spend some time doing research and fact checking. I also find fault with the film centering around a kid from Kansas. The uprising was started by Puerto Rican and African American drag queens, and there is strong support that the first police resistance was by a lesbian, not some white football player from the mid-west.I suggest watching the British 1997 film, which really feels so much more authentic.

Director Roland Emmerich (Whitehouse Down - 2013) retells the story behind the 1969 Stonewall Riots (the beginning of the gay rights movement). Skirting over the primary players in the upraising (drag queens and lesbians), at least his main character Danny (the husband Jeremy Irvinew - War Horse), activist Trevor (Jonathan Rhys Meyers - The Tudos) and rough trade pimp/bar owner Ed Murphy (the amazing Ron Perlman) keep the storyline interesting. Danny's street boys are ever present, but their cheesy dialogue (or lack there of) are what pull the film down. David Cubitt (Medium), as Danny father, Joey King (The Conjuring) as Danny's dedicated sister Phoebe, and Karl Glusman as Danny's HS interest respectively represent the different fractions of society during the early days (and at time current days) of gay life. "Stonewall" is decent film for anyone wanting to know more about the start of the gay rights movement.

OK....make up a fake white boy to lead the real cast to the future. I was a kid living on 4th street a few blocks away, my mom owned another underground twink bar called Sherrys Playground. We were no more than 1,000 feet away during this time. It's one cringe inducing scene after another, all bad. Just like the first awful Steve Jobs movie with Ashton which fades away out of consciousness. This hot mess deserves the dustbin. It's wrong, it's fake, it doesn't set the stage for the politics of 1969' it mentions Judy Garlands death but misses the point about the day of the funeral itself. All stereotypes, including of course "Drag Queen with a heart of gold". Just gross, wron(, and worst of all, cringe worthy bad story telling. Wait for cable.