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Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
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Release Date:
27 July 2001 (Canada)
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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
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Nominated for Golden Globe.
Another 27 wins
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27 nominations
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(20 articles)
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Unbelievably Amazing and Completely Kick-Ass.
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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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Rated R for sexual content and language.
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Runtime:
95 min | Argentina:93 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Iceland:L |
Portugal:M/16 |
USA:R (certificate #37948) |
Argentina:16 |
Netherlands:12 |
Norway:11 |
Singapore:NC-16 |
South Korea:15 |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:11 |
Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) |
UK:15 |
Australia:MA
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Unlike most musical films the films musical segments are only partly filmed on playback. John Cameron Mitchell didn't want to have to lip-sync the lines in the music so the band playing was recorded in studio, played back on set and sang live. His vocals were recorded and then mixed later on with the recording of the band, making it sound like they too were performing live. However, on the soundtrack, the vocals were mixed to sound as if they were recorded in a studio as opposed to on set.
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Continuity: During the sequence in the trailer where the wall drops, the first shot shows the window on which Hedwig is stepping is closed. The second clearly shows it open by the curtain bowing towards the ground, and the third shows it closed once again.
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Referenced in Be Kind Rewind (2008)
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Soundtrack:
The Origin of Love
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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!