Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Hedwig And the Angry Inch is a 2001 film that tells the story of a gay, East German teenager named Hansel who undergoes a sex reassignment surgery to escape to the West with an American soldier, only for the operation to leave him with a dysfunctional "angry inch" of flesh between his legs. Living in Kansas as Luther's wife, Hedwig forms a rock band with Korean-born Army wives and befriends a shy teenager named Tommy, whom she teaches music and helps become a successful rock star. However, Tommy steals Hedwig's songs and leaves her, and she must come to terms with her identity and life choices while following Tommy's tour and pursuing copyright infringement. The film explores themes of identity, love, trauma, gender, sexuality, music, existentialism, Plato's symposium, yearning, power dynamics, drag, and self-acceptance through dialogue in English and German, Korean, and Polish, animated sequences, songs, flashbacks, and live performances worldwide sites like Bilgewater's seafood restaurants, seedy motel rooms, military bases, Times Square studios in New York City, and stages in the United States on tours. The film features an ensemble cast, including John Cameron Mitchell as Hedwig Robinson / Hansel Schmidt, Miriam Shor as YitzhakOh, Stephen Trask as SkszpAndrea Martin as Phyllis Stein / Hedwig manager, Michael Pitt as Tommy GnosisSpeck / tommychoi, and Theodore Liscinski as Jacek, among many others; it was written by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask and directed by John Cameron Mitchell. One of its many memorable quotes is: "The Nazis had their sights on the future; the Jews had their sights on the past. This left the present wide open. That's where we come in, my dear. You see? We can only Broadway."

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Hedwig and the Angry Inch include Coyote Ugly, Grace of My Heart, The Magic Flute, Cosi, The Cheetah Girls, As It Is in Heaven.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch was released in theaters on August 31, 2001.