Rotten
Those expecting a rockin' good time are likely to be left cold by this screen translation, which despite some imaginative packaging too often proves a drag in more than the sartorial sense.
Dennis Harvey, Variety
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
An anatomically incorrect rock odyssey.
2001 · 1h 35m · R
Comedy, Drama, Music
Directed by
John Cameron Mitchell
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Overview
Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an 'internationally ignored' but divinely talented rock diva, inhabiting a 'beautiful gender of one'.
Director and cast
- John Cameron Mitchell Director
- John Cameron Mitchell as Hedwig
- Miriam Shor as Yitzhak
- Stephen Trask as Skszp
- Theodore Liscinski as Jacek
- Rob Campbell as Krzysztof
- Michael Aronov as Schlatko
- Andrea Martin as Phyllis Stein
- Ben Mayer-Goodman as Hansel - 6 years old
- Alberta Watson as Hansel's Mom
- Maurice Dean Wint as Sgt. Luther
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
92%
Tomatometer
Fresh
It is fairly short and fairly enjoyable.
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
Fresh
Flamboyant, irreverent, naughty and oddly, profoundly moving.
Susan Stark, Detroit News
Fresh
What in any other hands than Mitchell's might have been a sexual sight gag becomes a symbol of personal freedom and expression.
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
Fresh
The film's not only funny and weird, it's oddly poignant.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
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