Stonewall
Stonewall is a 2015 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Jon Robin Baitz, and starring Jeremy Irvine, Jonny Beauchamp, Joey King, Caleb Landry Jones, Matt Craven, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and Ron Perlman. The film is set in and around the 1969 Stonewall riots, a violent clash with police that sparked the gay liberation movement in New York City. Released on September 25, 2015, by Roadside Attractions, it received largely negative reviews.
Plot
Shortly before fleeing the conservative countryside in the late 1960s and moving to New York City, Danny Winters, a gay boy from Indiana, is discovered by friends while making love with his boyfriend. His father is upset, and while his mother is ambivalent as she loves her son, she does not stand up to her husband either. His father then refuses to sign Danny's scholarship application for Columbia University where Danny has been accepted, but Danny departs for New York anyway, leaving behind his supportive little sister, Phoebe.
Cast
- Andrea Frankle
- Arthur Holden
- Atticus Mitchell
- Caleb Landry Jones
- David Cubitt
- Jeremy Irvine
- Jo Vannicola
- Joey King
- Jonathan Rhys Meyers
- Julian Casey
- Karl Glusman
- Kwasi Songui
- Mark Camacho
- Matt Craven
- Richard Jutras
- Ron Perlman
- Thomas Dekker
- Tony Calabretta
- Veronika Vernadskaya
- Wilson Gonzalez
- Yan England
More details
author | Jon Robin Baitz |
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contentLocation | New York City |
director | Roland Emmerich |
editor | Adam Wolfe |
events | Stonewall riots |
genre | action drama |
keywords | abduct abducted and forcibly sent out to a high-class prostitution business arrest christopher street columbia university drag queen flee gay bar gay liberation gay youth genderfluid greenwich village homophile movement homophile rights group indiana march mattachine society meet move oral sex police raid police station police violence prostitution scream sex trafficking stonewall inn |
musicBy | Rob Simonsen |
producer | Carsten Lorenz Marc Frydman Michael Fossat Roland Emmerich |
productionCompany | Centropolis Entertainment |
publisher | Roadside Attractions |
recordedAt | Toronto |
theme | lgbt-related |