Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
Part of the Northern Pride 2010
| Director: | John Cameron Mitchell |
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| Certificate: | Guideline 15 |
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| Format: | Unknown |
| Language: | Eng |
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Meet Hedwig (John Cameron Mitchell) working with her band in a local restaurant near the salad bar as she exclaims that shes the internationally ignored rock singer who has traveled from Communist Berlin. Managed by the singular person who applauds during their musical sets, Phyllis Stein (Andrea Martin) is the band manager that keeps the family together.
As we travel with the band we travel into Hedwigs own memories as he share the stories of how he was a young boy named Hansel, raised by a single mother in Germany, then several years later is attracted to an American GI Sergeant who agrees to marry Hansel and take him to America if he follows through with a sex change operation in order to be come a complete woman.
When the operation fails leaving Hedwig with and angry inch, his GI husband abandons him in Kansas and Hedwig is left to fend for himself by doing a series of side gigs. When she meets young Tommy Gnosis (Michael Pitt) the two bond until Tommy steals Hedwigs songs and become a huge rock star leaving Hedwig pathetically playing in the shadows. As Hedwig performs we learn how his ultimate desire is to become a whole person by meeting his other half, someone he can bond with in every way.
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Other films in the Northern Pride 2010:
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Film: Xxy (2007)
21 Jul 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Alex, a 15-year old intersex person from Buenos Aires lives secluded with her parents in a fishing village in Uruguay. Her parents have settled down in Uruguay in order to live a quiet life until one day her mother invites a couple and their 15-year old son for the week-end.
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Film: Stonewall (1995)
22 Jul 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Who could have guessed that a bunch of men in dresses would breath life into the movement to win equal rights for gay men and lesbians? Certainly not the police who raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular "drag" bar in Greenwich Village. After a long history of police raids, extortion, and brutality, a gaggle of drag queens at the Stonewall decided they'd had enough and begun to riot when the police try to load them into a paddy wagon.