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Release Date
• USA: Aug 10, 2001
• UK: 17 Aug 2001
DVD Release Date
• R1: Dec 11, 2001
• R2: 21 Jan 2002
Budget $6,000,000
Official Website:
Hedwig and the Angry Inch Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for sexual content and language.
Running Time
1 hour, 35 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Killer Films, New Line Cinema
Studio Killer Films, New Line Cinema
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• Hedwig and the Angry Inch
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Genre: Romance, Drama, Comedy, Musical, Love, Gay/Lesbian, Marriage, Betrayal, Campy
Tagline: An anatomically incorrect rock odyssey
Plot: 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 pan-Slavic 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.
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In Good Company, The Station Agent, American Dreamz |
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