Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story
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| Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story | |
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| Directed by | John L'Ecuyer |
| Produced by | Heather Gordon Haldane |
| Written by | Michael MacLennan |
| Starring | Aaron Ashmore |
| Music by | Gary Koftinoff |
| Cinematography | Glenn Warner |
| Editing by | Mike Lee |
| Distributed by | Lifetime Television |
| Release date(s) |  June 1, 2004  April 28, 2005 |
| Running time | 92 min. |
| Country | |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story is a Canadian television movie, which aired on CTV in 2004. The film is about Marc Hall, a gay Canadian teenager whose legal fight to bring a same-sex date to his Catholic high school prom made headlines in 2002.
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[edit] Plot
In Inniston, Marc Hall (Aaron Ashmore), a popular student in a Catholic high school who actually avoids harassment any gay person would expect to usually face. But when he decides to take his boyfriend to the prom as his date, he finds he has stepped over the line straight into the fight of his young life and sends ripples though Canada's media. From just an ordinary teenager, he becomes an icon for LGBT rights across the nation when he discovers he is battling discrimination to date whoever he wants within the spotlight of the nation's media cast center on his struggle,
[edit] Cast
- Aaron Ashmore as Marc Hall
- Mac Fyfe as Jason
- Tamara Hope as Carly
- Trevor Blumas as Beau
- Dave Foley as Principal Warrick
[edit] Trivia
- The offices of Toronto-based Tapestry Pictures were trashed one week before the film's television premiere, and the producers fear the vandalism was linked to its coming, controversial film.
- This movie is based on a real-life situation in the southwestern Ontario town of Oshawa.
[edit] See also
Marc Hall v. Durham Catholic School Board
