Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

Name: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 95 min
Cast: John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor, Stephen Trask, Theodore Liscinski, Rob Campbell

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Comedy

Drama

Musical

Release Date: July 20, 2001
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Cast: John Cameron Mitchell , Miriam Shor , Stephen Trask , Theodore Liscinski , Rob Campbell , Michael Aronov
Runtime: 95
Main Genre: Comedy
Writers: John Cameron Mitchell , Stephen Trask
Tagline: An anatomically incorrect rock oddyssey
Website: http://www.hedwigmovie.com

Summary

Hedwig and The Angry Inch tells the story of an 'internationally ignored' rock singer, Hedwig, and her search for stardom and love. Born a boy named Hansel whose life's dream is to find his other half, Hedwig reluctantly submits to a sex change operation in order to marry an American G.I. and get over the Berlin Wall to freedom. The operation is botched, leaving her with the aforementioned 'angry inch'. Finding herself high, dry and divorced in a Kansas trailer park, she pushes on to form a rock band and encounters a lover/protege in young Tommy Gnosis, who eventually leaves her, steals her songs and becomes a huge rock star. A bitter yet witty Hedwig with her band, The Angry Inch, shadows Tommy's stadium tour, performing in near-empty restaurants for bewildered diners and a few die-hard fans. Through a collage of songs, flashbacks and animation, Hedwig tells her life story while on a tour of chain strip-mall seafood restaurants, trying to capitalize on her tabloid celebrity as the supposed ex-lover of famed rock star, Tommy Gnosis. Somewhere between the crab cakes and the cramped motel rooms, between the anguish and the acid-wash, she pursues her dreams and discovers the origin of love.