Based on his acclaimed off-Broadway musical, John Cameron Mitchell's "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" makes a triumphant transition to the screen. Mitchell, the writer-director, and composer-lyricist Stephen Trask have successfully expanded the play's themes ad artistic energy into the cinematic realm through musical numbers, flashbacks and animation. Dazzling in its design and surprisingly smooth in execution for a first-time director, "Hedwig" has the makings of a substantial art house hit that might reach ut to more adventurous mainstream moviegoers as well.

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