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Hedwig and the Angry Inch, 2001
English, German
USA
Profile of Hedwig and the Angry Inch
The mood of Hedwig and the Angry Inch is offbeat, sentimental, and bittersweet. The plot centers around transvestism, a music band, and falling in love. It is a drama and comedy movie. Stylistically, Hedwig and the Angry Inch campy humor. In approach, it is realistic. The setting is Kansas and Germany. Hedwig and the Angry Inch happens in the 1980s. The musical score is rock. It is adapted from a play. Hedwig and the Angry Inch is known for being a Sundance Festival winner and critically acclaimed. Note that it includes nudity, sexual content, and profanity.
Summary of Hedwig and the Angry Inch
John Cameron Mitchell is the creator of the off-Broadway hit Hedwig and the Angry Inch, which he and composer-lyricist Stephen Trask have transformed into a funny, dramatic, and curiously poignant self-described "post-punk neo-glam musical" film, with extra songs and a new instrumental score. Hedwig (played by Mitchell) was born as Hansel in East Berlin. In his twenties, Hansel agrees to undergo a sex change in order to marry a U.S. soldier (Maurice Dean Wint) and escape to America. Unfortunately, the procedure fails, and Hedwig is left with nothing but a sexless "angry inch" between her legs. After being abandoned in a Kansas trailer park by her husband, Hedwig decides to make the most of her situation: She develops a taste for outrageous wigs and costumes, forms a band, and becomes a singer. Hedwig soon meets and falls in love with 17-year-old Tommy (Michael Pitt), who also harbors rock star aspirations, and makes him her musical protégé. But Tommy is the one who ends up stealing the superstardom that Hedwig worked for, after stealing Hedwig's songs and claiming them as his own. In order to expose him as a fraud, she embarks on a tour of strip mall restaurants, telling her story to the audience while trailing Tommy on his own tour across America.
Details
| Language: | English, German |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 19 January 2001 |
| Runtime: | 95 min |
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as Yitzhak
as Skszp - Band Member
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Critics Reviews
Rolling Stone
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- by: Peter Travers
The New York Times
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- by: Stephen Holden
Users Reviews
- 06.March.2011
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- by: Judith Raddue
- Judith Raddue rated this movie
0/10
- 18.March.2009
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- by: blackeagle
- blackeagle rated this movie
10/10Must See
