Stonewall (2015)

Cast

Joey King
as Phoebe
Ron Perlman
as Ed Murphy
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
as Trevor
Karl Glusman
as Joe Altman

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Genres & Description

Action Drama

5.0 / 10

The plot revolves around the 1969 Stonewall Riots, the violent clash that kicked off the gay rights movement in New York City. The drama centers on Danny Winters, who flees to New York, leaving behind his sister. He finds his way to the Stonewall Inn, where he meets Trevor before catching the eye of Ed Murphy, manager of the Stonewall. He colludes with corrupt police and exploits homeless youth.

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Comments on this trailer
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Arubiix

Tumblr brought me here... - @Saturday, October 13, 2018 5:35 AM

Aitana Aguilera

I'm surprised that they didn't hire scarlet johanson to play the protagonist - @Wednesday, August 15, 2018 10:14 PM

Greyson Lee

errrrr,,,,,,,,,,, sure,,,,,,,,, a cis white gay man threw the first brick,,,,,,,,,,,,, not a trans woman of color,,,,,,, and this is three years forward - @Friday, July 13, 2018 3:25 AM

Love, Frances

Uhm, it’s not white ppl!!! The first brick was thrown by a trans lady of color not a cute white boy!! - @Friday, June 15, 2018 4:22 PM

Chris Parkes Photographer

While it is right to criticise the choices of the filmmakers - especially considering Emmerich being gay himself - I don't think people have taken the time to understand that in order to get a film like this funded for even a "small" $10-12 million (more money than most of us will ever see in our lives) requires guarantees on returns from the investors, so they want the safest bet possible-ie a "relatable white person coming of age" at its core, all the while completely ignoring that this undermines what makes this story so compelling.I completely agree with the criticisms thrown at the film and the people who made it, but at the same time, I don't think they can work in that system and take the risks necessary to play homage to the real protagonists of that story. What it needs is a sensational piece of documentary work, not this glossy soap opera. - @Friday, April 21, 2017 10:42 AM

noblelies

I watched this movie and loved it. The trailer is misleading. Politically-correct SJWs ruined the box office opening of what is perhaps the best gay rights movie of all-time. - @Wednesday, August 10, 2016 9:41 PM

Dogg369

wow, the retardation in these comments is real... - @Sunday, July 24, 2016 7:03 PM

Dose of Boost

this movie looks gay - @Wednesday, May 18, 2016 7:14 AM

Injika Smith

sorry but where are the lesbians? has there ever been a celebrated lesbian? why is our involvement in the lgbt community skipped over? were we just not involved in the fight for recognition? - @Sunday, May 15, 2016 4:42 AM

Mattia Monteduro

what about Sylvia Rivera? - @Friday, April 22, 2016 2:21 PM

Pau

Amigos si quereis VERACIDAD LA HISTORIA REAL en vez de quejaros tanto MIRAD EL DOCUMENTAL COÑO! ESTO ESTA BASADO EN HECHOS REALES PERO ES UNA PELICULA! - @Sunday, January 24, 2016 3:14 PM

Johnny Tsunami

more acceptance of degeneracy in the mainstream lol - @Thursday, January 21, 2016 12:20 PM

ha ha

fucking gays - @Monday, January 18, 2016 3:06 AM

L3gion3r

Looks like Hair - @Tuesday, January 12, 2016 7:46 PM

allyonightmare

ew fuck gay people - @Friday, January 8, 2016 4:29 PM

Weulf

looks good, but a little too gay for me to watch. no offense meant. I support gay rights. but I don't want to watch men kissing or anything like that. :P - @Friday, January 8, 2016 2:45 PM

Caroline Scott

I'm confused about why we don't learn about this in history class, i mean its a significant part of history obviously - @Tuesday, January 5, 2016 10:32 PM

DietSoda Bitch

Are you fucking kidding me with this bullshit? I will never watch this piece of lying trash, goodbye. RIP Martha P. Johnson - @Tuesday, December 1, 2015 4:42 AM

Scott Rindal

What about the earlier Stonewall movie from 1995? It had a main black character who seemed trans gender or at least lived where possible as a woman from memory. And also a Latino and white boy as main characters. The White boy was used to connect and contrast the "respectable" gay rights groups of the late fifties to the more violent later rights movement in that movie. Why remake a reasonably good movie and not make it better? - @Tuesday, November 24, 2015 11:25 PM

Laura Céspedes

Everybody should know about Stonewall, but this movie is insulting,, how dare you Robin Braitz and Roland Emmerich to put a white boy as a lead! - @Friday, November 20, 2015 5:17 PM

Artemis1039

I've always been hoping someone would make a movie about this. And they come out with this piece of trash. How disappointing. I just hope that this "movie" doesn't ruin the chances that another will be made. - @Sunday, October 18, 2015 9:15 PM

Andrew L

Crash and Burn your revisionist POS! - @Thursday, October 15, 2015 7:48 AM

Khalil McConaughey

why you unlike this videos this movie talk about freedom this america the land of freedom - @Tuesday, October 6, 2015 8:00 PM

Faith

fuck this shit - @Saturday, October 3, 2015 6:43 PM

Jannah M

Too bad this movie apparently sucks. - @Tuesday, September 29, 2015 9:39 AM

milkksop

ohhhhh no - @Monday, September 28, 2015 3:03 PM

paul you

Can someone explain why this movie trailer has so many dislikes? - @Monday, September 28, 2015 3:11 AM

JmoLACa

Even as a piece of white-washed fiction it looks terrible. - @Sunday, September 27, 2015 9:38 PM

McKenan Bundy

I guess I don't know a lot about what historically happened. It looked pretty inspiring to me. Why is everybody hating on this movie? - @Sunday, September 27, 2015 8:57 PM

Chi Zu

dont forget the 11 gorrillion goyim - @Sunday, September 27, 2015 8:14 PM

Mcamf2013

white lies per usual - @Sunday, September 27, 2015 8:43 AM

Will

I'm not gay, don't have anything against gays but I will not be watching this movie. Pretty sure 99% of straight men feel the same way. - @Saturday, September 26, 2015 10:43 PM

Rosetlntedworld

Any of you people ever heard of Marsha P Johnson? Where the fuck was she? Storme Delarverie, anyone? No? Okay. This is a fucking disgrace. - @Saturday, September 26, 2015 9:58 PM

squid ethi cs

whats next , rosa parks : the movie. starring anne hathaway as rosa parks - @Saturday, September 26, 2015 2:12 AM

Thom Simmons

COMMENTERS: What a bunch of screechy whiny clones you all are. It is NOT a documentary, it's a fictional story set in the context of the riots Stop being so damned self-righteous with your "my way or the highway" bitching. - @Friday, September 25, 2015 7:59 PM

everygrainofsand

WTF?! A dumb, white hunky blonde twink threw the first brick that kicked off gay civil rights?! This trailer tastes like a kick in the teeth to history. Where are the drag queens - the real, 24 carat gold heroines?! Shameful stuff here - @Friday, September 25, 2015 3:51 AM

slowSEVENTEENmotion

Ever since the Jenner decided to put on a skirt it seems that SJW's and progressives are out in force in support of transsexuals. It's great that they've been getting support, but it seems that it's now at the expense of GLB people. Suddenly being gay just isn't enough--to be considered a minority with REAL problems you need to be a fucking transsexual black woman. Otherwise you're a "cis-gendered" white "fagget" (as I was called here) asserting your privilege. Well, I hate to break it to you, but the majority of the patrons at Stonewall were WHITE GAY GUYS. Look at the pictures, watch a documentary. There were a lot of white gay guys, some gay men of color, and very few drag queens. There were a lot of poor, disenfranchised groups, but transgendered individuals were a minority of them. They existed, but they certainly weren't the majority of the patrons and they weren't considered "transsexual," though in retrospect some of them might have been if the term were in use at the time (others were genderqueer, etc.) Many more of the patrons were just straight people who were poor. There was also an assortment of male prostitutes (both gay and straight). The riot itself wasn't just GLBT people, it involved the entire community. Many of those involved were straight. Everyone seems to want to make this about transsexual rights. I hate to break it to you, but they were a small part of a much larger event. To be GENEROUS, according to studies, about 1 in 500 people would be categorized as transgendered (which is an umbrella term that would include transsexuals). To be less generous, around 1 in 1,000. Compare this to gay people who are about 1 in 20 to 1 in 25. It's not "whitewashing" to pick a main character who would actually fit into the majority of people who patronized the club: poor, white, gay men. - @Friday, September 25, 2015 2:36 AM

Dr Karl Brian Kinney Barth

At least the music is good. - @Friday, September 25, 2015 1:24 AM

slowSEVENTEENmotion

Everyone back the fuck up for two seconds. Take a look at ACTUAL pictures of the Stonewall riots. A FEW drag queens (not transsexuals, DRAG QUEENS) were there. It was a majority of gay men. In fact, it was a majority of gay, white men. This was the beginning of the GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT. This was NOT the beginning of the trans movement. In the comments you people are making it sound like this was a black trans-movement. It wasn't. Emmerich is rewriting history, but you people are no better. - @Thursday, September 24, 2015 11:33 PM

Megalodon

"Where Pride Began"!? Really? Typical! Another lame ass film claiming to be a true story when all it does is gloss over the negative aspects of the story, dehumanizes everyone who disagreed with the event, and completely ignores other historical figures that may have played an even bigger role in the movement than the people of Stonewall! True story my ass! The truth of the matter is that Stonewall wasn't the beginning of anything, and not all LGBT people agreed with what those people did that day. In fact, many thought that the behavior of those who participated was an embarrassment to the movement! What really happened was certainly no March on Selma. Now, I'm no expert on the history of the movement, but even I know that this film is woefully inaccurate. But, of course, the mindless masses will buy into it, anyway, and call anyone who criticizes the film a bigot or a homophobe! Ugh! Stupid Emmerich! Even when he actually tries to make a good movie, he royally fucks up! - @Thursday, September 24, 2015 7:31 PM

Natalie RG

This is ridiculous and inaccurate. I want a movie about the actual people involved in 1969 Stonewall Riots not a whitewashed fictional character. - @Wednesday, September 23, 2015 9:06 PM

Lindsay Teske

What is the first song called? The one that's playing when he comes to New York? Thanks! - @Wednesday, September 23, 2015 8:55 PM

Morgan McLaughlin

No. No, no, no. NO. If you're going to make a movie on a historical event, make sure that it's HISTORICALLY ACCURATE. I don't care that he may not "have had te resources" or whatever, but there are enough female trans actresses of color that you could've hired and focused on. Thank you for nothing, Roland Emmerich. Just another example of whitewashed cinema. - @Wednesday, September 23, 2015 4:56 PM

Sarah Sutton

Hell, maybe Danny's journey could have been an allegory for the journey of all cispeople watching this movie. Like, the education of the privileged class or something. But this "straight-acting" appeal to the masses drivel is ridiculous. The white man doesn't always need to be the hero or the storyteller. - @Wednesday, September 23, 2015 4:10 PM

Shufei

Wow, so disappointing. Well, the trailer is sure as hell a whiteciswash extravaganza. I sure hope the film itself ups the tokenism at least a notch. I am sure Hollywood has a hard enough time with gay cis men even now, never mind the rest of us queer rabble. But some of us remember Marsha Johnson, Miss Major, and Silvia Rivera and want to see them take the street as they did. Since every movie is rebooted on a ten year cycle now, hopefully that real Stonewall film is forthcoming. - @Sunday, September 20, 2015 9:41 PM

Lo Lee

is it the same storyline as the Stonewall Movie from the 90s? The one with Frederick and Mr Diaz from the britney spears I wanna Go video? - @Sunday, September 20, 2015 9:40 PM

lauren

I dont want to hear about white people anymore!!!!!!!!!! - @Sunday, September 20, 2015 12:38 AM

Gabriel Goopar

Oh man, stop complaining dumb people, you will ruin this, you will never see a good gay film ever again if you start complaining like this because someone finally got interested in doing a blockbuster on stonewall http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2453073664/nm3415406?ref_=nmmd_md_nxt Heres the one you are looking for... is not in the august 4 trailer big deal. - @Saturday, September 19, 2015 5:08 PM

Nolan Greene

No this movie needs to die - @Saturday, September 19, 2015 3:30 PM

Roadblock

People are mad about a white "cisgender" lead, but I'm over here disappointed that this movie isn't about Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. - @Saturday, September 19, 2015 6:02 AM