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Epicurus.com - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
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List Price: $14.98
Our Price: $0.77
Your Save: $ 14.21 ( 95% )
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Starring: Michael Aronov, Ermes Blarasin, Rob Campbell, Karen Hines, Mary Krohnert
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780780638167
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 0780638166
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Release Date: 2002-06-04
Running Time: 95
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
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Editorial Reviews:
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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
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Brilliant
Comment: This movie is absolutely brilliant. John Cameron Mitchell is a legend and true artist of our time. Not only did he write and direct this movie, he also stars as a stunning Hedwig. After watching the behind the scenes documentary, that is also included with the dvd, you learn a lot of the main players from the first ever stage performance of Hewig are in the cast. The guitarist in the movie is actually songwriter for the musical book of the play, Stephen Trask. John Cameron Mitchell wrote the original book and screenplay. Their genius is breathtaking. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll want to hug John Cameron Mitchell for being so awesome. And high five him. Truly a great piece of artistic beauty.
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Summary: Simply Brilliant
Comment: Here's the deal, this movie and soundtrack is AWESOME! For those who expect a "Hollywood" A-lister movie, you wouldn't get this one. It's one of those movies in that every time you watch it, it gets better and better. My advice for those who don't get it is keep watching!!
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Summary: Not much story, but great soundtrack
Comment: I'm giving this four stars for John Cameron Mitchell, the graphic and animation, the excellent soundtrack, and the overall idea.
I'm leaving out one star because there wasn't really that much to the story.
If the lack of plot doesn't bother you too much, you will probably enjoy the story of the East German wanna-be transsexual Hedwig, the band, the dreary tour of Bilgewater restaurants in the U.S., and the love/hate affair with Tommy Gnosis, who was Hedwig's lover until he stole the latter's songs for his own album and took all the credit.
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Summary: A--uhm--memorable love story
Comment: "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" is not a typical love story.
It is a Boy-Failed-To-Turn-Girl falling into, out of, and into love with a Confused-Boy-Who-Stayed-Boy love story (And, of course, there is additional drama added by the complex feelings of Gay-Exhausted-Artist-Turned-Transvestite.) But though the story is made strange, the emotion is familar: love, true love, deep love; convincingly, compellingly portrayed.
It is often moving; slyly (sometimes rudely) funny. And, of course, the music rocks.
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Summary: Much more than a cult film -- a poignant and engaging story of love and loss
Comment: I won't repeat the summaries of this film -- I only want to say it is much more than a cult film but is more exciting and intriguing and fun and sad than most films out there. Unfortunately even New Line decided to market this as a niche product -- comparing it to the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Without knocking that film, which is a phenomenon of its own, Hedwig is in a different league. While the style of Hedwig's band owes a lot to camp and to glam rock the film itself is never campy. It has the music and power and vision of some of the great musical celebrations like The Wall and The Commitments, but has a more intimate feel than either of those. It is, in style, closer to a documentary, and after watching this you will swear that Hedwig is not merely an invention of the actor and director John Cameron Mitchell but has a life of his own.
Apart from enjoying the film quite a bit, I was also quite happy when I noticed that the song "The Origin of Love" is a retelling of the story Aristophanes tells in one of the most exciting of ancient books, Plato's Symposium -- of how in the beginning we were created as a unity of two and the gods saw that the contentment this generated made us too powerful and divided us, so that love is the longing for our other half.
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