Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Tittle:Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Genre: Musical,Drama,Comedy,

Year:2001

Plot:Hedwig is a wildly original, transcendent, gender-bending rock-n-roll epic; an essential masterpiece of queer cinema.

First developed at the NYC queer rock club Squeezebox, and then a long-running Off-Broadway show, Hedwig hits the big and home video screens in all its bewigged glory compliments of creators John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask. In the film, Mitchell directs and stars as Hansel/Hedwig, a little gay boy/aspiring rock star raised in Communist East Berlin who desperately wants to move to the West. He meets Luther, an African-American G.I. who encourages him to have a sex change, marry and escape with him to Kansas. The operation is botched and Hansel is left as a boy with a teeny weeny! Once there, in trailer park hell, Hedwig is abandoned with little more than memories and the remnant of that sex change: an “angry inch.”

Hedwig and the Angry Inch has a rich score filled with melodic ballads and out-and-out rockers that propel the telling of Hedwig's incredible story. Hedwig has allowed himself to be victimized all his life - his dick has been stolen, his act has been appropriated and his life has been controlled by others until the self-affirming end of the film. Special mention must be made of Emily Hubley's whimsical animated sequences and the fantastic costumes and wigs. Hedwig is brilliant filmmaking, don't miss it! The DVD comes with an amazing 83 minute documentary entitled Whether You Like it or Not: The Story of Hedwig that tells of Hedwig's genesis.

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