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www.cinema-scene.com - : If Tim Curry's Dr. Frank-N-Furter in Rocky Horror Picture Show and Joel Grey's Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret somehow had a lovechild, that child as an adult would be Hedwig, the flamboyant rock singer found in John Cameron Mitchell's Hedwig and the Angry Inch. The film, based upon a successful off-Broadway play a couple years ago, has all the intentions that made Tommy into the immortal rock opera that it now is. The main difference, though, is that Tommy's problem was a born blindness, Hedwig's is the remnants of a botched sex-change operation. more...
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : ''Hedwig and the Angry Inch'' occupies an almost extinct movie category: It's an original rock musical--indeed, according to its maker, a ''post-punk neo-glam rock musical,'' a category almost as specialized as the not dissimilar ''Beyond the Valley of the Dolls,'' which was a ''camp rock horror musical.'' Filmed with ferocious energy and with enough sexual variety to match late Fellini, it may be passing through standard bookings on its way to a long run as the midnight successor to ''The Rocky Horror Picture Show.'' ''Hedwig'' began life in 1997 as an Off-Broadway musical, and now arrives as a movie with its cult status already established. more...
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3/4
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goatdog.com - : In one of the strangest and most effective musicals to come along in a long time, John Cameron Mitchell delivers an astounding performance as Hedwig, a transsexual glam-rock singer. She tells her sad story in obnoxious songs from behind the sneeze guard at a chain of Denny's-like restaurants while the patrons attempt to eat their Super Slams. more...
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