Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story

Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story
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.

Plot

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,

Cast

• Aaron Ashmore as Marc Hall
• Mac Fyfe as Jason
• Tamara Hope as Carly
• Trevor Blumas as Beau
• Dave Foley as Principal Warrick

Trivia

• The offices of Toronto-based Tapestry Pictures were trashed one week before the film's television premiere, and the producers feared 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.

See also

Marc Hall v. Durham Catholic School Board

External links

• Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story at the Internet Movie Database