Stonewall (2015) on Netflix
Cast out of his Indiana home, Danny Winters heads for Greenwich Village. There he falls in with young street people and drag queens and goes with them to the Stonewall Inn.
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Plot summary
Caught by friends with his boyfriend shortly before he leaves the conservative countryside, Danny Winters, a gay boy from Indiana, faces his father's anger; his mother loves him but does not stand up to her husband. His father refuses to sign the scholarship application for Columbia University, so Danny departs for New York anyway, leaving his supportive little sister, Phoebe, behind. In Greenwich Village, a multiracial group of street people and drag queens befriends him, and he witnesses police violence against them. At the Stonewall Inn, Trevor, who belongs to the Mattachine Society, asks him to dance. A police raid that night arrests some customers, among them Danny's friend Ray.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Stonewall (2015)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Before the film's release, its trailer was criticized for failing to represent the full diversity of people involved in the uprising, particularly people of color, drag queens, butch lesbians and transgender people. Director Roland Emmerich responded that the film is far more diverse than some people think.
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Lead actor Jeremy Irvine said Marsha P. Johnson is a major part of the film, and that although first-hand accounts of who threw the first brick in the riots vary wildly, a fictional black transvestite character, played by Vladimir Alexis, pulls out the first brick in the riot scene.- Roland Emmerich initially wanted to shoot the film in New York but changed the location to Montreal after finding New York too expensive.
- In 2015, the people who protested against the film were listed as one of nine runners-up for The Advocate's Person of the Year.
