| | | An anatomically incorrect rock odyssey.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), Trailers, Commentary
This is the story of Hedwig, an ambitious glam-rocker who comes to America determined to find fame, fortune, and his “other half”. Based on the smash hit New York show, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is destined to become the greatest rock musical of all time!
"Visionary rock firepower! Hedwig may just reinvent the rock musical!" Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"Not to be missed. Hedwig is hysterically funny!" Edward Jay Epstein, The Wall Street Journal
"Fascinating!" Roger Ebert, Ebert & Roeper At The Movies
"Better than Rocky Horror Picture Show. So deliriously entertaining that you feel like the movie musical has finally been reinvented!" Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal Constitution
Editor's Note
John Cameron Mitchell is the creator of the off-Broadway hit HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, which he and composer-lyricist Stephen Trask have transformed into a funny, dramatic, and curiously poignant self-described "post-punk neo-glam musical" film, with extra songs and a new instrumental score. Hedwig (played by Mitchell) was born as Hansel in East Berlin. In his twenties, Hansel agrees to undergo a sex change in order to marry a U.S. soldier (Maurice Dean Wint) and escape to America. Unfortunately, the procedure fails, and Hedwig is left with nothing but a sexless "angry inch" between her legs. After being abandoned in a Kansas trailer park by her husband, Hedwig decides to make the most of her situation: She develops a taste for outrageous wigs and costumes, forms a band, and becomes a singer. Hedwig soon meets and falls in love with 17-year-old Tommy (Michael Pitt), who also harbors rock star aspirations, and makes him her musical protégé. But Tommy is the one who ends up stealing the superstardom that Hedwig worked for, after stealing Hedwig's songs and claiming them as his own. In order to expose him as a fraud, she embarks on a tour of strip mall restaurants, telling her story to the audience while trailing Tommy on his own tour across America.
| Features | Select-A-Song | | DVD-ROM Content | | Original Feature-Length Documentary "Long Story Short: The Forging Of A Cult Legend From Stage To Screen." | | Theatrical Trailer | | Cast & Crew Filmographies | | Widescreen Version, Enhanced For 16X9 TVs | | Audio: English 5.1 Dolby Digital, DTS Surround Sound | | Filmmaker Commentary |
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Release Information
| | Studio: New Line |
| Release Date: 6/3/2003 |
| Running Time: 91 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2001 | | Catalog ID: 5401 | | UPC: 00794043540127 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Sundance Film Festival (2001) |  | John Cameron Mitchell, Winner, Audience Award | | John Cameron Mitchell, Winner, Director's Award | | | John Cameron Mitchell, Nominee, Grand Jury Prize |
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| | Professional Reviews | Movieline's Hollywood Life
"...HEDWIG is an exhilarating reinvention of the movie musical....Mitchell plays with the medium, blending flashbacks, fantasies, even bits of clever animation into a brilliantly stylized whole..." 08/01/2001 p.36-8New York Times
"...[A] clever, funny, wildly innovative film tricked out with surreal pop embellishments and Day-Glo colors..." 07/20/2001 p.E1 USA Today
"...[The story] is wildly witty, but also inventive, audacious and poignant....HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH brings the rock musical to a crescendo..." 07/20/2001 p.4E Film Comment
"...A mossy, semi-tragic fun house with a drunken camera trying not to pass out....As one tune explains, HEDWIG is about the origin of love....The heartbreak is for real..." 07/01/2001 p.76-7 Entertainment Weekly
"...Love, fame, self-acceptance, fabulous wigs -- HEDWIG achieves everything MOULIN ROUGE aspires to with far less effort..." 07/27/2001 p.45 Rolling Stone
"...[Mitchell] is a live wire who knows how to spark a fun party....HEDWIG is rich in imagination and daring..." 08/02/2001 p.69-70 Sight and Sound
"...A confident and energetic updating of the movie musical....Mitchell brings an assurance and charisma to his performance..." 09/01/2001 p.44-5 Total Film
"...A terrific script, complete with lyrics that are often as smart as they are poignant..." 09/01/2001 p.93 Washington Post 9 of 10
...more than sophomoric drag-vamping. It's "Rocky Horror" with a more inventive brain. With such material as Hedwig's semi-serious song, "The Origin Of Love," featuring animated humans with double heads and Zeus cutting people in half with lightning-shaped scissors, the film's not only funny and weird, it's oddly poignant. I miss Hedwig already... - Desson Howe
The New York Times 9 of 10
One way of looking at this clever, funny, wildly innovative film tricked out with surreal pop embellishments and Day-Glo colors is to see it as the kind of movie David Bowie might have made had he pushed his early '70s gender-bending persona to its logical limit. - Stephen Holden
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| Customer Reviews | ![]() | | Cinematography |  5 | | Plot | 5 | | Acting | 5 | | Overall Satisfaction | 5 |
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5 of 5 Hysterically funny, compelling and an extremely im Thursday, December 04, 2003
A Viewer from Houston, Texas
I bought this DVD at Heathrow airport for the cover only - it was in the discount bin and the cover was a bit wild. I had never heard of nor knew anything about the play. I watched the movie the first time and sat there thinking, "what in the heck did I just see"? So I watched it again. And again. And again. You can enjoy this movie on many levels - whether it is the pure entertainment of the story (which is quite funny on the surface), the compelling nature of the acting, or the excellent music. Deep down though, you realize that we ALL have our "Wicked Little Towns" that we need to get out of, or relationships in which we were used for that period of time in a partners life who moved on and only in retrospect do you see that you got something out of it, too. The movie is most profound for pointing out the problems in defining someone's gender, and how utterly important it is for society and absolutely irrelevant for individuals. Buy this DVD. Enjoy it. Think about it. You'll remember these characters and the music forever. Was this review helpful?  
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5 of 5 Hedwig Is a Sensation! Tuesday, February 05, 2002
Jill-- Elfqueen12 from New Canaan, CT
With a stunning combination of potent musical performances and a clever script, this witty, tragic, poignant film captivates it's audience and changes the world. Grippingly powerful, blazingly symbolic, and heart-warmingly comical, Hedwig teaches us all something about fame and love and self-discovery. The soundtrack is a phenomenal success, and visually this movie is a treat as well. This movie will make you question your world, it will break your heart, and it will make the gender line just a little bit blurrier. It is a cinematic triumph and an absolute must see! Was this review helpful?
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