Hedwig and the Angry Inch

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, humor, and kick-ass songs with a little Platonic philosophy tucked inside for good measure. A visually dazzling gem of a movie. --Bret Fetzer

Movie Details

Cast: John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor
MPAA Rating: R
Running time: 95 min
DVD Aspect Ratios: 1.85:1

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DVD Features:

• Color
• Closed-captioned
• DTS Surround Sound
• Widescreen
• Dolby

DVD International release dates:
North America: Dec 11, 01