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Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) -- A transexual punk rock girl from East Berlin tours the US with her rock band as she tells her life story and follows the ex-boyfriend/bandmate who stole her songs.
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User Rating:
7.6/10   13,952 votes
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Writers (WGA):
John Cameron Mitchell (book) and
Stephen Trask (book) ...
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Release Date:
27 July 2001 (Canada) more
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Tagline:
An anatomically incorrect rock odyssey
Plot:
A transexual punk rock girl from East Berlin tours the US with her rock band as she tells her life story and follows the ex-boyfriend/bandmate who stole her songs. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 27 wins & 27 nominations more
User Reviews:
Unbelievably Amazing and Completely Kick-Ass. more (221 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

John Cameron Mitchell ... Hedwig
Miriam Shor ... Yitzhak
Stephen Trask ... Skszp - Band Member
Theodore Liscinski ... Jacek - Band Member

Rob Campbell ... Krzysztof - Band Member

Michael Aronov ... Schlatko - Band Member

Andrea Martin ... Phyllis Stein
Ben Mayer-Goodman ... Hansel - 6 years old

Alberta Watson ... Hansel's Mom
Gene Pyrz ... Hansel's Dad

Michael Pitt ... Tommy Gnosis

Karen Hines ... Tommy's Publicist
Max Toulch ... Goth Menses Boy
Maurice Dean Wint ... Sgt. Luther Robinson
Ermes Blarasin ... Fat Man
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for sexual content and language.
Runtime:
95 min | Argentina:93 min
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Trivia:
Stephen Trask, who wrote the songs and score for the film, also provides the singing voice for Tommy. more
Goofs:
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): On the poster advertising for auditions for a production of Rent (2005), the character of Collins is described as 'Young, Edgy, Black, Aspiring Musician.' However, Collins is actually a philosophy professor. The 'aspiring musician' of Rent is Roger. more
Quotes:
Hedwig: Stop. You come in here crying, and you want to recreate with me.
[Tommy laughs]
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Confessions of a Drag Queen (2006) more
Soundtrack:
Freaks more

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57 out of 65 people found the following review useful.
Unbelievably Amazing and Completely Kick-Ass., 23 April 2001
10/10
Author: PF (pf@uppermarket.com) from San Francisco

The press kit touts this film as a "Post-punk neo-glam rock odyssey," based on the hit off-broadway show that ran in New York from 1998-2000. Some people have compared it to the Rocky Horror Picture Show, but that's only because it's the only other Glam Rock musical ever made into a movie.

The premise alone should make you want to see it: A rock-and-roll drag queen tells her bizarre life story, starting as a boy in East Berlin, falling in love with an American GI, and going for a sex-change operation, waking up to find nothing but a "one-inch mound of flesh" where her organ should be. The story takes more twists and turns after that, and I don't want to spoil anything.

The story is told mostly through the songs, which are perfect rock and roll gems, on par with the songs from Tommy. After only seeing it once, I walked away singing the words "Six inches forward and five inches back...I've got an angry inch!" over and over for days.

For a directorial debut with no big-name movie stars, the acting is right on the mark. These are theater people, after all, and there's none of the cringeworthy bad acting you see in a lot of independent films. John Cameron Mitchell gives the character Hedwig so much emotional depth, you forget that the premise is so silly.

The costumes are amazing, as you would expect from a movie with a drag queen as the main character. Hedwig wears no less than 41 outfits, one of which is a dress made entirely of hair.

I came away from this movie totally inspired. It positively electrified me with an energy I rarely feel from movies anymore. And I don't even like musicals!

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