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Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) - Movie Details

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Release Date: July 20, 2001 (LA/NY)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Writer: John Cameron Mitchell
Cast: Maurice Dean Wint, Alberta Watson, Stephen Trask, Ben Mayer-Goodman, Theodore Liscinski, Rob Campbell, Michael Aronov, Andrea Martin, Miriam Shor, Michael Pitt, John Cameron Mitchell
Studio: Fine Line Features
Running Time: 95 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated R for sexual content and language.

Hedwig is a musician, a failed sex-change patient, and an East German immigrant. Stuck somewhere between a man and a woman, he/she travels the country with his band The Angry Inch, telling the story of how he came to be. ...

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Every once in a while a movie comes along that you usually wouldn't watch, but the critical praise is just too much to ignore. Hedwig and the Angry Inch is one of those movies; it is very unlikely that I would be walking around in the video store and just pick out a movie about a transvestite singer from Germany. However, it had shown up on so many Top Ten Lists that I just had to see it. Full movie review »

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