2015 · drama · history · coming-of-age
Stonewall
Directed by Roland Emmerich2h 9m2015
Kicked out by his parents, a gay teenager leaves small-town Indiana for New York's Greenwich Village, where growing discrimination against the gay community leads to riots on June 28, 1969.
Our read: Stonewall (2015) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · history · coming-of-age entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / history, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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