Stars: John Cameron Mitchell, Michael Pitt, Miriam Shor, Stephen Trask

Director: John Cameron Mitchell

Summary: Hedwig was born a boy in East Berlin but has a sex-change operation in order to marry an American GI and escape to the West. Nothing works out but years later Hedwig fronts a rock band on a tour of the U.S. and tells her life story through a series of concerts...

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 protege. 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.

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Sometimes grace and hope come in surprising packages. The title character of Hedwig and the Angry Inch--a would-be glam-rock star from East Germany--undergoes a botched gender-change operation in order to escape from the Soviet bloc, only to watch the Berlin Wall come down on TV after being abandoned in a trailer park in middle America. Hedwig gets involved with Tommy, an adolescent boy who steals her songs and becomes a stadium-filling musical act. Suffering from a broken heart and a lust for revenge, Hedwig follows Tommy's tour, playing with her band (The Angry Inch) at tacky theme restaurants. Into this simple storyline, writer-director-star John Cameron Mitchell packs an astonishing mix of sadness, yearning, humour and kick-ass songs with a little Platonic philosophy tucked inside for good measure. A visually dazzling gem of a movie. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Featurette - 1. WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT: The Story Of Hedwig, Audio Commentary - 1. John Cameron Mitchell - Director, Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer, Deleted Scenes, Scene Access, Select-a-Song Feature, Filmographies
Year:	2001
Release Date:	January 21, 2002
Runtime:	95 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	E D V 9147
Keywords:	Angry, Comedy, General, Inch, Hedwig
Genre:	Comedy