Stonewall
- Director: Nigel Finch
- Writer: Rikki Beadle Blair; Martin Duberman
- Producer: Ruth Caleb; George Faber
CGiii Comment
This is a low-budget, fictional account of an historic event.
Don't be put off by the atrocious packaging...
This British produced & written film is a pleasant, quirky, surprise.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Who could have guessed that a bunch of men in dresses would breath life into the movement to win equal rights for gay men and lesbians? Certainly not the police who raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular "drag" bar in Greenwich Village. After a long history of police raids, extortion, and brutality, a gaggle of drag queens at the Stonewall decide they have had enough and begin to riot when the police try to load them into a paddy wagon. Told by "La Miranda" (Hector), a regular customer at the Stonewall Inn, the film is a recounting of events that led up to that fateful day in 1969. "Matty Dean" is the handsome angry young man that La Miranda meets at the Stonewall one day and with whom she/he quickly falls in love. "Bostonia" is the self-styled Queen Mother of the drag queens and guides each initiate gently "into the life."
Cast & Characters
Guillermo Diaz as La Miranda;
Fred Weller as Matty Dean;
Brendan Corbalis as Ethan;
Duane Boutte as Bostonia;
Bruce MacVittie as Vinnie;
Peter Ratray as Burt;
Dwight Ewell as Helen Wheels;
Matthew Faber as Mizz Moxie;
Michael McElroy as Princess Ernestine;
Luis Guzman as Vito;
Joey Dedio as Angelo;
Tim Artz as Plainclothes Cop;
Isaiah Washington as Uniformed Cop;
Candis Cayne as Diva;
David Drumgold as Diva