Stonewall (Film) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Stonewall is a 1995 historical comedy-drama film. Inspired by the memoir of the same title by openly gay historian Martin Duberman, Stonewall is a fictionalized account of the weeks leading up to the Stonewall riots, a seminal event in the modern American gay rights movement. Stonewall was the final film of British film director Nigel Finch, who died of an AIDS-related illness shortly after completing filming. Stonewall stars Guillermo Diaz, Frederick Weller, Duane Boutte and Brendan Corbalis. Dwight Ewell and Luis Guzman also make cameos. While the film is a work of fiction, Finch makes the unusual directorial choice of including documentary-style interview footage with several people who were at the Stonewall Inn during the uprising. Finch also intersperses lip synch numbers performed by the actors throughout the film to function as something of a Greek chorus.