HEDWIG and the ANGRY INCH

 
 

Adapted from the critically acclaimed off-Broadway rock theatre hit, 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/protégé 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.

Starring John Cameron Mitchell, Stephen Trask, Rob Campbell, Miriam Schor, Michael Pitt, Theodore Liscinski, Michael Aronov, Alberta Watson, Andrea Martin.



 
Out on Film showing Hedwig and the Angry Inch

“Hedwig and the Angry Inch”

 

Out on Film showing Hedwig and the Angry Inch

RETROSPECTIVE


Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a 2001 musical based on the stage musical about a fictional rock band fronted by an East German transgender singer. In 2001, the film won the Best Director and Audience Awards at the Sundance Film Festival.


MUSICAL DRAMA

Out on Film showing Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Out on Film showing Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Out on Film showing Hedwig and the Angry Inch

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Saturday, October 6, 2012   *   11:30 pm  *   85 minutes   *   Director: John Cameron Mitchell