# Anyone seen "Hedwig and the Angry Inch"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 6, 2001, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-hedwig-and-the-angry-inch/75112 "2001-08-06T13:37:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-hedwig-and-the-angry-inch/75112/1 "2001-08-06T13:37:58Z")
I just saw the movie this past weekend and I can’t wait to see it again. It has gone on the “Gotta Buy DVD” list along with _Moulin Rouge_. John Cameron Mitchell has made the most amazing debut since Orson Welles and _Citizen Kane_, since, like Welles, Mitchell wrote, directed, and starred in _Hedwig_. The music totally rocks and is insanely hummable, with Bob Mould of Husker Du and Sugar playing lead guitar. > [@](#): > > Six inches forward and five inches back > I’ve got an angry inch! In addition to being a wildly entertaining rock musical, the movie also deals with profound issues of gender, identity, and self-acceptance. Go see _Hedwig and the Angry Inch_! ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-hedwig-and-the-angry-inch/75112/2 "2001-08-06T14:26:30Z")
Bob Mould? Really? Cool. But don’t taunt me. “Hedwig” sounded interesting ever since I read a review of the play but there is no fucking way it’s ever going to play it this miserable backwater I live in. (and if I make it to the Big City in the next couple of weeks I have to see “Ghost World” first, Dan Clowes AND the guy who directed “Crumb”!) Honestly, I’ve been dying to see “Hedwig”, “Ghost World”, “Sexy Beast”, but where I live I have to choose between “Rush Hour II” and “Legally Blonde” (I stay home). ---
**Author:** ![magdalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@magdalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magdalene)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-hedwig-and-the-angry-inch/75112/3 "2001-08-06T15:10:09Z")
I’ve been wanting to see this, yay! It’s playing at the Landmark Century on Clark in Chicago, if anyone’s wondering, and the preview is a hoot. ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-hedwig-and-the-angry-inch/75112/4 "2001-08-06T15:43:43Z")
> [@](#): > > but where I live I have to choose between “Rush Hour II” and “Legally Blonde” (I stay home). **bete** , I saw Legally Blonde on Saturday night and it was, surprisingly, pretty funny. If you’re looking for a good escape and _not_ good cinema, it’s worth it. Cute, funny, eye candy. I liked it and it was pretty amusing. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-hedwig-and-the-angry-inch/75112/5 "2001-08-06T15:57:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BunnyGirl \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > but where I live I have to choose between “Rush Hour II” and “Legally Blonde” (I stay home). > > **bete** , I saw Legally Blonde on Saturday night and it was, surprisingly, pretty funny. If you’re looking for a good escape and _not_ good cinema, it’s worth it. Cute, funny, eye candy. I liked it and it was pretty amusing. \*\* Hmmm…maybe when I was trying to refer to Hollywood crap I don’t want to see I should have said “Princess Diaries”. Or “Americas Sweetheart”. I mean I really liked her in “Election”. Still, my point is so many good movies- even nationally released ones- don’t play anywhere near me, dammitt. ---
**Author:** ![tevya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@tevya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tevya)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-hedwig-and-the-angry-inch/75112/6 "2001-08-06T16:05:55Z")
I saw the play but I was not aware the movie was out yet. I don’t think it’s playing in my neck of the woods yet, but hopefully it will. I already have the soundtrack (which is great). ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2001, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-hedwig-and-the-angry-inch/75112/7 "2001-08-22T14:29:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gobear \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > Six inches forward and five inches back > > I’ve got an angry inch! > > \*\* I am going to be singing this all day. I got my latest Amazon order yesterday with the Hedwig soundtrack [sup][sub](and also _Mutter_ by Rammstein, but that’s another story)[/sub][/sup] and I absi-freaking-lutely love this CD. I need to see this movie, but I missed my one chance to see it one the big screen. Stephen Trask, one of the people behind Hedwig was born not five minutes from where I sit now. They held the CT premiere at a local theater (that’s _thea-ter_ as in huge, old performance venue not shoebox google-plex) last June, but I spaced it. Oh well, there’s always DVD.