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Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Cast

John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor, Stephen Trask, Theodore Liscinski View All


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John Cameron Mitchell (Screenplay), John Cameron Mitchell (Director) View All

Release: Jul. 20th, 2001
Runtime: 1 hour, 35 minutes
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.”
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JayDee
Year of release 2001 Directed by John Cameron Mitchell Written by Stephen Trask (story) John Cameron Mitchell (story and script) Starring John Cameron Mitchell Michael Pitt Miriam Sho.
Joel
I am going to assume that a lot of the narrative for Hedwig is shuffled around in the songs, and as much as I thought the music was awesome, I'm not a big lyric kind of guy.
Sexy Celebrity
I came out of that movie theater feeling very indifferent (and probably obnoxiously complaining to my Hedwig fan friend how much I wish I had seen Ghost World instead -- and my instincts were right, I instantly loved that film -- but I do believe it turned out best that I saw it a year later.) Anyw....
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