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Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a 2001 American musical comedy-drama film written for the screen and directed by John Cameron Mitchell. Based on Mitchell's and Stephen Trask's 1998 stage musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, it accompanies Hedwig Robinson, a gay East German rock singer. Hedwig subsequently develops a relationship with a younger man, Tommy, becoming his mentor and musical collaborator, only to have Tommy steal her music and become a rock star. The film follows Hedwig and her backing band, the Angry Inch, as they shadow Tommy's tour, while exploring Hedwig's past and her forced sex reassignment surgery. Mitchell reprises his role as Hedwig from the original production.

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2001 · 1h 35m · Comedy · Music · Drama

TMDB 7.4/10 (437 votes)

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'.

Directed by John Cameron Mitchell

Box office $4M worldwide

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John Cameron MitchellDirector

John Cameron Mitchellas Hedwig

Miriam Shoras Yitzhak

Stephen Traskas Skszp TTheodore Liscinskias Jacek

Rob Campbellas Krzysztof

Michael Aronovas Schlatko

Andrea Martinas Phyllis Stein BBen Mayer-Goodmanas Hansel - 6 years old

Alberta Watsonas Hansel's Mom

Gene Pyrzas Hansel's Dad

Michael Pittas Tommy Gnosis

Karen Hinesas Tommy's Publicist MMax Toulchas Goth Menses Boy

Maurice Dean Wintas Sgt. Luther Robinson

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Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a 2001 American musical comedy-drama film written for the screen and directed by John Cameron Mitchell. Based on Mitchell's and Stephen Trask's 1998 stage musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, it accompanies Hedwig Robinson, a gay East German rock singer. Hedwig subsequently develops a relationship with a younger man, Tommy, becoming his mentor and musical collaborator, only to have Tommy steal her music and become a rock star. The film follows Hedwig and her backing band, the Angry Inch, as they shadow Tommy's tour, while exploring Hedwig's past and her forced sex reassignment surgery. Mitchell reprises his role as Hedwig from the original production.

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2001 · 1h 35m · Comedy · Music · Drama

TMDB 7.4/10 (437 votes)

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'.

Directed by John Cameron Mitchell

Box office $4M worldwide

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