Not many film makers can make a movie based around sex and not dwell too much on sex. In a movie based around a gay community one would expect to see a full frontal yet the director worked around it cautiously. Jeremy Irvine was a good in the role of Danny a outted gay teen but I think a more seasoned actor would have done a better job. Jonny Beauchamp who plays a transgender steals every scene he's in. Ron Perlman plays again a bad guy who also steals every scene he's in.
A southern boy caught with his boyfriend is outted by his classmates and forced to leave town. He ends up in Greenwich Village NY and struggle's to fit in. With the help of Ray/Ramano he slowly finds his way but not without a brutal journey. He leaves behind his mother who cares for him and his sister who loves and supports him. His father turns his back on him forcing him to leave his small town surrounding for the big city where his life takes a huge turn.
What we get is the next couple months before the historic riots that began the first ever Pride Movement Walk for equal rights. With actual and fictional characters the story unwinds with again historic and fictional events.
The acting above all is done well and the setting sets it off. While Irvine seems to struggle to keep up with the cast he somehow managed to get across the fact and made the viewer feel for him. It's a great movie based around the historic riots at the infamous Stonewall Inn that doesn't stray too far from the truth. Showing how the passing of then gay icon Judy Garland triggered the events that would unfold later that day. In all it's a great movie that somehow gets its point across without getting too vouge. Would I recommend this, yes, as it's as close as we're possibly get to the truth behind the riots that set forth to the equal rights movement amongst the LGBT community. I gave it 8 star's as I thought it lacked in chemistry between the actor's but somehow held up in story telling.
Review of Stonewall
