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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...

Product Identifiers

ProducerChristine Vachon, Katie Roumel, Pamela Koffler

EAN5050629375015

eBay Product ID (ePID)24048553581

Product Key Features

ActorJohn Cameron Mitchell, Stephen Trask, Michael Pitt, Miriam Shor

Film/TV TitleHedwig and the Angry Inch

DirectorJohn Cameron Mitchell

FormatBlu-ray

Release Year2019

LanguageEnglish

GenreGeneral, Comedy

Run Time90 Mins

Additional Product Features

Certificate15

Number of Discs1

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

ComposerStephen Trask

Production DesignerTherese Deprez

ReviewsEntertainment Weekly - ...Love, fame, self-acceptance, fabulous wigs -- HEDWIG achieves everything MOULIN ROUGE aspires to with far less effort..., Rolling Stone - ...[Mitchell] is a live wire who knows how to spark a fun party....HEDWIG is rich in imagination and daring..., Movieline - ...HEDWIG is an exhilarating reinvention of the movie musical....Mitchell plays with the medium, blending flashbacks, fantasies, even bits of clever animation into a brilliantly stylized whole..., USA Today - ...[The story] is wildly witty, but also inventive, audacious and poignant....HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH brings the rock musical to a crescendo..., Sight and Sound - ...A confident and energetic updating of the movie musical....Mitchell brings an assurance and charisma to his performance..., Total Film - ...A terrific script, complete with lyrics that are often as smart as they are poignant..., New York Times - ...[A] clever, funny, wildly innovative film tricked out with surreal pop embellishments and Day-Glo colors...

Additional InformationJohn 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.

ScreenwriterJohn Cameron Mitchell

Costume DesignerArianne Phillips

Sound sourceDolby Digital

Movie/TV TitleHedwig And The Angry Inch

EditorAndrew Marcus

Director of PhotographyFrank DeMarco

Consumer AdviceContains strong language, sex references, nudity