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Hedwig and the Angry Inch (New Line Platinum Series)
Actors: Michael Aronov, Ermes Blarasin, Rob Campbell, Karen Hines, and Mary Krohnert
Rated: R (Restricted)
Retail Price (not our price): $24.98
Release Date: 2001-12-11
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Studio: New Line Home Video
Run Time: 91 minutes
Format: Array
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Discs: 1


Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Amazon.com
Sometimes grace and hope come in surprising packages. The title character of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, a would-be glam-rock star from East Germany, undergoes a botched gender-change operation in order to escape from the Soviet bloc, only to watch the Berlin Wall come down on TV after being abandoned in a trailer park in middle America. Hedwig gets involved with Tommy, an adolescent boy who steals her songs and becomes a stadium-filling musical act. Suffering from a broken heart and a lust for revenge, Hedwig follows Tommy's tour, playing with her band (the Angry Inch) at tacky theme restaurants. Into this simple storyline, writer-director-star John Cameron Mitchell packs an astonishing mix of sadness, yearning, humor, and kick-ass songs with a little Platonic philosophy tucked inside for good measure. A visually dazzling gem of a movie. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5

1) You Kant Always Get What You Want   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Sing along, now: My sex change operation got botched; my guardian angel fell asleep on the watch; now all I got is a Barbie doll crotch; I've got an angry inch! And there you have it. Some of the wittiest, most outrageously delicious lines fall from the lips of Hedwig, the loveliest Eastern Berlin glam-Bloc girly boy to ever fall in love with an American soldier, only to become the angriest inch in the Junction City, Kansas trailer park. Abandoned by hir new husband, Hedwig becomes a sensation in hir own mind, touring local restaurants with hir band comprised of Korean Army wives. Along the way Hedwig meets and befriends a young Christian boy. Hedwig falls in love. The boy, Tommy Gnosis, steals all of hir songs and becomes a sellout rockstar. If that thread of the story wasn't sad, humorous and compelling enough on its own, the animated interweaving of Aristophanes' speech in Plato's Symposium is beautifully spun. It is that smooth rendering against the garish and, angry world of Hedwig that the real story of transformation emerges. Resting solely on the fluid dynamic of sexuality, it's easy to go into this film with that in focus as the prevailing theme. Hedwig's effort to recreate hir desired body shape results in a state of being that requires perhaps even more self-acceptance than the original did. However, in hir relationship with Tommy the question of acceptance becomes one of a more intangible nature: can one live without one's soul complement? If not can one make the changes in oneself in order to live with one's soul complement?So we wrapped our arms around each other,Trying to shove ourselves back together.We were making love,Making love.It was a cold dark evening,Such a long time ago,When by the mighty hand of Jove,It was the sad storyHow we becameLonely two-legged creatures,It's the story ofThe origin of love.That's the origin of love.

2) DVD   [Rating: 4 out of 5]
Wow. I would have delighted in seeing John Cameron Mitchell's off Broadway rendition of this unique story of a glam rock star with a less than normal origin. All of the songs are "sing-along" worthy and delivered in the classic glam rock style. This is a sad story of a gay young man, victim of a botched sex change operation, desperately searching for someone to love him for who he is, rather than who he aspires to be. It's not particularly a happy ending, although perhaps an ending where Hedwig finally comes to terms with his / her lot in life. It is unique, refreshing, fascinating, and as bizarre as the story line is, has all of the pathos that make Hedwig an endearing character.

3) Hedwig   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
one of my all time favorite movies, if you like this movie, you should check out Kinky Boots

4) Hedwig is this Generations Rocky Horror   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
It's funny that nobody in the area where i live carries the movie. They carry the soundtrack but not the film. The film is amazong. The songs are terrific. Might I add that Hedwig and his angry inch are incredibly hot! I would have to say that a film with music and drag queens hasn't pleased me since Rocky Horror! I'm not saying it's better but they did an amazing job! "I put on my make up..."

5) A STORY OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Wow ! The musical and tragic destiny of an East German transexual rock singer in the U.S.A. Can also be comprehended as a satire of American cultural policy. Earned innumerable awards throughout the world.