| 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 |
| Studio | Screen Door |
| Distributed by | Lifetime Television |
| Release date(s) | June 1, 2004 April 28, 2005 |
| Running time | 92 min. |
| Country | |
| Language | English |
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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In Inniston, Marc Hall (Aaron Ashmore) is popular and his sexuality relatively well-accepted by his classmates and later his parents. 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,
Marc Hall v. Durham Catholic School Board