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46
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43
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Fine Line Features
FILM:
MUSIC:
MPAA RATING: R for sexual content and language
Starring
John Cameron Mitchell,
Miriam Shor,
Michael Pitt,
Andrea Martin,
and
Stephen Trask
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. (Fine Line Features)
| GENRE(S): |
Musical
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| WRITTEN BY: |
John Cameron Mitchell (also play)
Stephen Trask (music and lyrics)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
John Cameron Mitchell
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 11, 2001
Video: December 11, 2001
Theatrical: July 20, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
95 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
John Cameron Mitchell was nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance as the title character.

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
Stomps the summer movie competition with heart and humor.
100
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
The sight of Hedwig and his band transforming a trashy trailer into a glitter-rock stage during "Wig in a Box" was so exhilarating I almost leapt out of my seat. The movie is pure theater, as it should be.

100
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
Builds into a moment of such gorgeous rocking that you truly lose yourself in some musical otherworld you never dreamed you'd reach in current films.

100
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
The story is told so passionately that it demands as much of you as it does of its performers, all of whom are up there, giving everything.

100
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
On the screen, the rip-roaring rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch retains all the excitement and energy it had on stage while adding depth, clarity and emotional texture.

100
LA Weekly
Ernest Hardy
Mitchell retools his play magnificently, opening it up into a vibrant cinematic work.

100
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Clever, funny, wildly innovative film.

100
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
The film's not only funny and weird, it's oddly poignant. I miss Hedwig already.

100
Wall Street Journal
Ed Epstein
This extraordinary flight from the humdrum is not to be missed.
91
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
John Cameron Mitchell credits Plato as the inspiration for his rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Now Mitchell has turned his play into a raucous, touching celebration of a film.

91
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Mitchell directs and stars in the riotous, loving, and only occasionally pathos-milking film adaptation of his own acclaimed Off Broadway play, with great up-your-ante music and lyrics by Stephen Trask.

90
New Times (L.A.)
David Ehrenstein
Offers an enormous amount of pure silly fun for the entire non-nuclear family, no matter what gender they may be.

90
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Mitchell gives this post-punk, neo-glam rock extravaganza everything in his loaded arsenal of talents. He gets the sound right, the look right, the fun right and - this is crucial - the pain right.

90
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Mitchell, who also directed and wrote the screenplay, originally created this glorious rock opera for the stage with composer-lyricist Stephen Trask.

88
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
If you thought ''Moulin Rouge,'' or, for that matter, ''Tommy,'' was trippy, Hedwig, with its glorious convergence of material and performer, will show you what you've been missing.
88
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
This is Mitchell's show, and his performance lives up to his triple billing as writer, director and star.
88
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
It's a positive hat trick by John Cameron Mitchell.

88
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Wildly witty, but also inventive, audacious and poignant.

80
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Ever hear of a rock musical that actually rocked? John Cameron Mitchell's glorious adaptation of his acclaimed Off-Broadway show might be a first.

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Cameron's imaginative directing and screen-shaking performance give this rock musical plenty of oomph.

75
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
The production is fantastically funny, high-energy camp, punctuated by Trask's infectious score and by Mitchell, dressing in a succession of wigs twice the size of his body.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
Falters in its final 15 minutes, when the funny lines peter out and the flashbacks get fuzzy.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
This drag-queen melodrama, like its star, perseveres.

75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
There's a lot more at work in this raucously entertaining movie than cross-dressing clichés.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
There's some kind of pulse of sincerity beating below the glittering surface, and it may come from Mitchell's own life story.

75
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
(Mitchell's) Hansel may be small-boned and soft-featured in an androgynous way, but his Hedwig is a force of nature, burned out and jaded yet brimming with compassion and bursting with energy.

67
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
A screen spectacle that beseeches its audience for adoration and mass acceptance.

50
Variety
Dennis Harvey
Despite some imaginative packaging too often proves a drag in more than the sartorial sense. Taking Mitchell's sketchy book far too seriously, the movie grows leaden between its terrific songs.

40
Village Voice
Amy Taubin
It's this strategy (however unconscious), and not simply a lack of directing talent, that makes Hedwig so relentlessly assaultive, heavy-handed, and emotionally monochromatic.


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