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Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Name: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Genre: Musical, Drama
Released: 2001
Duration: 95 min

2001Musical · Drama95 min

4.5/5

The best original songs of anything on this list, by a distance.

A glam-rock musical about a botched surgery and a stolen songbook.

Our take

John Cameron Mitchell adapts his own stage show about an East German genderqueer rock singer touring American seafood restaurants while stalking the protégé who stole her music. It is funny, loud, angry, and structured around some of the best songs written for any film musical — "The Origin of Love" alone.

Its politics around gender are of their moment and worth watching with that in mind; Hedwig is not a straightforward trans narrative and was never really trying to be one. What it nails is the fury of being made into someone else’s idea of a person, and the wig comes off in the last act for a reason.

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Jibbi Score — 4.5 out of 5 rainbows. The best original songs of anything on this list, by a distance.

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Rotten Tomatoes — 92%, as recorded on Wikidata — Rotten Tomatoes has no public API, so this is the openly licensed figure rather than a live reading.
TMDB — 7.4 out of 10 from 446 votes, refreshed daily.

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The plot, officially

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'.

Synopsis and poster via TMDB.