
Cast: Guillermo Diaz, Frederick Weller, Brendan Corbalis, Duane Boutte, Bruce MacVittie, Peter Ratray, Dwight Ewell, Luis Guzmán, Candis Cayne
Nigel Finch's (Lost Language of Cranes) final film is a dramatization of the days leading up to and after the Stonewall Rebellion in June 1969. It's a sexy, funny, entertaining and enlightening film.REVIEWThis rollicking musical love story is a fictionalized account of the people involved in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and while historical in setting, should not be thought of as documentary truth, but rather a what-might-have-been-happening on the days before that fateful summer night. Matty Dean (Weller), a studly country boy comes to New York City, comes out, falls in love with a La Miranda (Diaz), a saucy drag queen, hangs out with a rambunctious group of black, white and Latino misfits and then becomes politicalized in the process. This is Nigel Finch's (The Lost Language of Cranes) last film; he died of AIDS before the film was released. A dazzling and quite memorable story of what life was like for queers before the riots and the riots themselves.La Miranda (the late Sylvia Rivera in real life) says -"This my legend, honey, OK? My Stonewall legend." LaMiranda's Stonewall is a love story embroidered with the dreams and frustrations of the time." Barry Walters, San Francisco Examiner