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.
DVD Features:
Region 1
Snap Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Single Side - Dual Layer
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary - 1. John Cameron Mitchell
Bonus Features - 1. LONG STORY SHORT: THE FORGING OF A CULT LEGEND FROM STAGE TO SCREEN
Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
Interactive Features:
Select-A-Song
Text/Galleries:
Filmographies - 1. Cast
2. Crew
DVD-ROM Conent
Costume Designer
Arianne Phillips:
Director of Photography
Frank DeMarco:
Executive Producer
Amy Henkels:
Executive Producer
Mark Tusk: Executive Producer, HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (2001)
Executive Producer
Michael De Luca: Executive Producer, HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (2001)
Production Designer
Therese DePrez: Production Designer, DARK WATER (2005)
Animation
Emily Hubley: Animation, HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (2001)
Review 1:
"...[Mitchell] is a live wire who knows how to spark a fun party....HEDWIG is rich in imagination and daring..."
Source: Rolling Stone
p.69-70 08/02/2001
Review 2:
"...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..."
Source: Film Comment
p.76-7 07/01/2001
Review 3:
"...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..."
Source: Movieline's Hollywood Life
p.36-8 08/01/2001
Review 4:
"...[A] clever, funny, wildly innovative film tricked out with surreal pop embellishments and Day-Glo colors..."
Source: New York Times
p.E1 07/20/2001
Review 5:
"...Love, fame, self-acceptance, fabulous wigs -- HEDWIG achieves everything MOULIN ROUGE aspires to with far less effort..."
Source: Entertainment Weekly
p.45 07/27/2001
Review 6:
"...[The story] is wildly witty, but also inventive, audacious and poignant....HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH brings the rock musical to a crescendo..."
Source: USA Today
p.4E 07/20/2001
Review 7:
"...A confident and energetic updating of the movie musical....Mitchell brings an assurance and charisma to his performance..."
Source: Sight and Sound
p.44-5 09/01/2001
Review 8:
"...A terrific script, complete with lyrics that are often as smart as they are poignant..."
Source: Total Film
p.93 09/01/2001
Shopping Cart:
