Release Date: May 27, 2003 Region: 1 Runtime: 91 mins Studio: New Line Home Entertainment Audio:
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC] ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo [CC] ENGLISH: DTS 5.1 [CC]
Video:
Widescreen 1.85:1 Color
Subtitles: English Packaging: Snap Case Rating: R Features:
Filmmaker Commentary Deleted Scenes With Filmmaker Commentary Original Feature-Length Documentary: Whether You Like it or Not: The Story of Hedwig Select-A-Song: Song by Song Access To the Film Cast and Crew Filmographies Theatrical Trailer
Sometimes 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, humour and kick-ass songs with a little Platonic philosophy tucked inside for good measure. A visually dazzling gem of a movie. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com