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Warner Bros. Pictures
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Studio: New Line Cinema
Release Date: Jan 19, 2001
Running Time: 95 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United States
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Hedwig was born a boy named Hansel in Communist East Berlin who dreamed of finding his other half and becoming a big American rock star. When a handsome American GI promises love and liberation, it seems like a dream come true. But there's a catch-in order to marry and emigrate Hansel must "leave a little something behind." Hedwig survives a botched sex change operation that leaves her with an "angry inch" only to be stranded in a Kansas trailer park the very day the Berlin Wall comes down. Undeterred, Hedwig dons immaculate makeup and a Farrah Fawcett wig and forms a rock band-The Angry Inch. While supporting herself with babysitting gigs, she falls for a 16-year-old Jesus freak she renames Tommy Gnosis. Tommy steals her songs and becomes the rock star Hedwig always dreamed she'd be. Refusing to be defeated, she fiercely performs in crumbling theme restaurants seeking recognition, retribution, and reconciliation with her other half.
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Phyllis Stein
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July 6, 2001
An exuberant blast of rock & roll defiance could be just the thing to wake up a comatose movie summer. And John Cameron Mitchell, the director, screenwriter and star of Hedwig and the Angry Inch - the stage musical he has triumphantly transferred to screen - is a live wire who knows how to spark a fun party. Hed-heads, as fans of the show call themselves, know that Mitchell plays an "internationally ignored" rocker from communist East Berlin who sings about his dick being cut off in a messy…
Part Rocky Horror Picture Show, part Velvet Goldmine, part Tommy, Hedwig and the Angry Inch tells the story of Hedwig, née Hansel (John Cameron Mitchell), a transsexual transvestite wannabe rock star whose botched sex change operation left him/her with only an ''angry inch.'' As she tours the pit stops of America with her Eastern Block band ''the Angry Inch,'' Hedwig's search for fame, success and fulfillment with another eventually becomes a search for wholeness within herself. That's the easy… |
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