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REEL GENDER Presents:

HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH

Flamboyant costumes, lollipop colors, and glam-rock music come together explosively this movie adaptation of the off-Broadway hit. Hedwig (John Cameron Mitchell), a transsexual rocker, tours the dives of America in pursuit of her gorgeous, successful former protégé Tommy Gnosis. Her band is called the Angry Inch (which also refers to the result of a botched sex-change operation), and her story unwinds in a series of monologues and rocking stage performances. Mitchell's confident, nonpandering direction brings out cheeky performances from his actors, and songwriter Stephen Trask's tunes, worthy of Bowie at his gender-bending best, wrap the film in loving, outré fashion.