Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2-DVD) R
An anatomically incorrect rock odyssey
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 25, 2019
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor & Michael Pitt | |
Performer: | Andrea Martin, Maurice Dean Wint, Stephen Trask, Theodore Liscinski, Michael Aronov, Alberta Watson & Rob Campbell | |
Directed by | John Cameron Mitchell | |
Edited by | Andrew Marcus | |
Screenwriting by | John Cameron Mitchell | |
Composition by | Stephen Trask | |
Produced by | Pamela Koffler, Katie Roumel & Christine Vachon | |
Director of Photography: | Frank DeMarco | |
Executive Production by | Mark Tusk, Amy Henkels & Michael De Luca |
Entertainment Reviews:
...[The story] is wildly witty, but also inventive, audacious and poignant....HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH brings the rock musical to a crescendo...
USA Today
...A terrific script, complete with lyrics that are often as smart as they are poignant...
Total Film
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Brazenly breaks down the holy silos of the masculine and the feminine gender binary and revels in the ambiguity between.
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From the Front Row
...[A] clever, funny, wildly innovative film tricked out with surreal pop embellishments and Day-Glo colors...
New York Times
...A confident and energetic updating of the movie musical....Mitchell brings an assurance and charisma to his performance...
Sight and Sound
Those expecting a rockin' good time are likely to be left cold by this screen translation, which despite some imaginative packaging too often proves a drag in more than the sartorial sense.
Variety
...[Mitchell] is a live wire who knows how to spark a fun party....HEDWIG is rich in imagination and daring...
Rolling Stone
Product Description:
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.
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