Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Release Date: July 20, 2001
Studio: Fine Line Features
Director:
John Cameron Mitchell
Screenwriter: John Cameron Mitchell
Starring:
John Cameron Mitchell, Michael Pitt, Miriam Shor, Andrea Martin, Michael Aranov, Rob Campbell, Theodore Liscinski
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
MPAA Rating:
R (for sexual content and language)
Official Website:
Hedwigmovie.com
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DVD/VHS: Click here to buy!
Movie Poster: Not available
Plot Summary: Adapted from the critically acclaimed off-Broadway rock theatre hit, "Hedwig And The
Angry Inch." Tells the story of Hedwig, an "internationally ignored" rock and roll songstress hailing from Communist East Germany. Born a boy named Hansel whose life's dream is to
find his other half, Hedwig reluctantly submits to a sex change operation in order to marry an American GI and get over the Wall to freedom. The operation is botched, leaving her with the
aforementioned "angry inch." Finding herself high, dry and divorced in a Kansas trailer park, she pushes on to form a rock band and encounters a lover/protege in young Tommy Gnosis, who
eventually leaves her, steals her songs and becomes a huge rock star. A bitter yet witty Hedwig trails Tommy's stadium tour with her pan-Slavic band, The Angry Inch. Through a collage of songs,
flashbacks and animation, Hedwig tells her story to bewildered diners on a tour hosted by a chain of bankrupt seafood restaurants. Somewhere between the crab cakes and the cramped motel rooms,
between the anguish and the acid-wash she pursures her dreams and discovers the origin of love.
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