Some material may sound better on paper than it actual translates on screen. And while this will not be up every-ones ally (which you can tell by the rating and the discrepancies in high and low ones),this did happen to a degree and was worth telling. So while you may not belong to a community that is affected by this, it's a universal theme nonetheless at the end.

I haven't checked facts or read upon the real events, so I wouldn't be influenced going into this. But that also means, I can't confirm to what degree this got it right (something quite a lot of people seem to criticize). From a drama point of view it does kind of work though and while it doesn't seem perfect, it is decent

Stonewall happened in June 1969. A gay bar named Stonewall was raided by the police in NYC. That was a common occurrence back then and all the drag queens, gay men and lesbians usually went quietly. But something happened this night. A drag queen fought back and everybody joined in. It turned into an all out riot with the police being attacked by the crowd. It was the beginning of gay liberation. This movie uses a fictional protagonist named Danny Winters (Jeremy Irvine) who moves from Indiana to NYC to attend college. His family has disowned him after he came out. He falls in with a group of gay guys and drag queens led, more or less, by flamboyant Ray (Jonny Beauchamp). It follows his coming of age (hitting all the familiar notes) and accepting gay love and romance. It climaxes with the first gay pride march in 1970.

This has been blasted by critics everywhere. The largest complaints have been that the movie is historically inaccurate (this is true) and it whitewashes the story by giving us a white "hero" when it was a black drag queen that started it up. I can deal with that. This doesn't claim to be a documentary. Other movies that cover important historical events have used fictional protagonists. Why not this one? However that does not excuse the boring and thoroughly predictable script. It was insulting how clichéd and obvious this film was. Every single coming of age cliché you've ever seen is trotted out and put through its paces. Acting doesn't help. Irvine was tall, handsome and a total blank as Danny. He had the same confused look on his face during the entire film. Even worse his British accent slipped through a few times. It had my audience laughing. Jonathan Rhys Meyers (a good actor) appears to be drugged out in his role as Trevor. Only Beauchamp shows any life and gives a great performance. Also the film DOES look good and they capture the late 1960s fads and fashions perfectly. The recreation of the Stonewall bar is excellent too. It looks exactly like it's been described in books. Still this doesn't change that the fact that this is a terrible and boring picture. Check out the 1995 film "Stonewall" for a MUCH more accurate dramatization of the riot. Avoid this one.

This movie is so trashy i don't even know where to begin.

First if you know anything about the Stonewall Riots you are going to hate this movie. It takes the real heroes from the real life story and replaces them with a White, "Straight acting" protagonist. They were also the words of the director not mine, who i was shocked to find out was actually part of the LGBTQ community because from watching this film i honestly couldn't tell.

It is really, really offence to take Marsha P. Johnson out of the spotlight and just have her as some character that shows up and just farts around doing nothing. She started it along with some of her other friends not this random boy who shown up in town and is now everyones hero.

I honesty can't believe they thought this would fly. I understand that they wanted to include this character that they made up but there are other ways to do it. They could of had him looking up to Marsha or Stormé DeLarveri who was also a figure in the uprising. He didn't need to be our "Hero" we could have just been on the journey that these people were on with him.

There are other issues like the elitism that the main character has like he thinks he is better than these other characters. It was just garbage.

If you are interested in learning the actual story about the riots or a bit more about Marsha please watch The Death and Life of Marsha P Johnson (2017) it is o Netflix or if you are wanting to watch a "True Story" LGBT movie please watch Pride (2014),it is a great movie and doesn't take as much liberties as this movie and doesn't White Wash actually real life hero.