Product DescriptionSometimes 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 - Actors: Michael Aronov, Ermes Blarasin, Rob Campbell, Karen Hines, Mary Krohnert
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
- Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
- ISBN: 0780636872
- Language (Original Language): English
- Language (Subtitled): English
- Region Code: 1
- Release Date: 2001-12-11
- Running Time: 91 minutes
- Theatrical Release Date: 2001
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