Hedwig and the Angry Inch Movie Review 2000

Creator-star Mitchell adapted and directed his Off Broadway stage rock musical along with composer-lyricist Trask (who's also in the film) and opened up his gender-bending '70s kitsch fantasy. Hedwig was once Hansel, an East Berlin boy, whose sex-change operation was botched and who was abandoned in a Kansas trailer park by her G.I. husband. Betrayed in love by teenaged boy toy Tommy (Pitt), who also steals Hedwig's songs, Hedwig and her band embark on a low-rent tour while Hedwig sings her life story to the disinterested and stalks a much-more successful Tommy.

Distribution

Warner Home Video, Inc., 5775 Linder Canyon Rd., Westlake Village, CA 91362, URL: http://whv.warnerbros.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 95 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Gender Bending, Showbiz Musicals, Road Trip, Period Piece: 1970s, Flashback, Bar & Grill, Rock Flicks

Screenplay

John Cameron Mitchell

Cast

John Cameron Mitchell, Michael Pitt, Andrea Martin, Miriam Shor, Alberta Watson, Maurice Dean Wint, Rob Campbell, Stephen Trask, Theodore Liscinski, Michael Aranov

Cinematography

Frank DeMarco

Director

John Cameron Mitchell

Music

Stephen Trask

Other

Andrew Marcus, Nancy Pankiw, Arianne Phillips, Therese DuPrez

Producer

Christine Vachon, Katie Roumel, Pamela Koffler, Killer Films, New Line Cinema, Fine Line Features