Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Blu-ray) R

An anatomically incorrect rock odyssey
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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region A
  • Released: June 25, 2019
  • Originally Released: 2001
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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Entertainment Reviews:

Certified Fresh93%

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 49,672
...A mossy, semi-tragic fun house with a drunken camera trying not to pass out....As one tune explains, HEDWIG is about the origin of love....The heartbreak is for real...
Film Comment
Jul 1, 2001
Rating: 4/4 -- Most movie musicals often use songs to create an exaggerated exterior of polished images, but here is one that uses them to reveal honesty that seems too painful to explain in mere conversation. Full Review
Cinemaphile.org
Aug 26, 2015
...[Mitchell] is a live wire who knows how to spark a fun party....HEDWIG is rich in imagination and daring...
Rolling Stone
Aug 2, 2001
...Love, fame, self-acceptance, fabulous wigs -- HEDWIG achieves everything MOULIN ROUGE aspires to with far less effort...
Entertainment Weekly
Jul 27, 2001
Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a powerful story about identity and creation and pain and love. Full Review
Birth.Movies.Death.
Jul 12, 2019
It is fairly short and fairly enjoyable.
Orlando Sentinel
Aug 31, 2001
...A terrific script, complete with lyrics that are often as smart as they are poignant...
Total Film
Sep 1, 2001

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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  • Sales Rank: 108,845
  • UPC: 715515231213
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