Friday, May 19, 2006

KINKY BOOTS





Drama
Based on a true story

BACKGROUND
In 1979 Steve Bateman joined his father Richard at the family shoe-making firm, WJ Brooks Ltd. and eventually took over as Managing Director in 1993. Sales of traditional, hand-stitched leather dress shoes were already in trouble back then as cheap fashionable imports flooded the market. Many Northamptonshire shoe factories collapsed, went into bankruptcy and the old, distinctive buildings turned into flats. WJ Brooks was heading the same way and Steve was forced to make redundancies (the British way of saying laying off people).

DEFINITION
Kinky boots: the term is most often connected to the type of thigh-high boots used by Julia Roberts in the movie Pretty Woman and by Madonna on her Re-Invention World Tour; what can be considered kinky by some can be seen as elegant and trendy by others.

PRINCIPAL CAST MEMBERS
Joel Edgerton: Charlie, the grandson of the founder of Price & Sons
Jemima Rooper: his fiancée Nicola, a real estate agent
Chiwetel Ejiofor (pronouced Chew-it-tell Edge-oh-for): drag queen Lola
Sarah-Jane Potts: Lauren, one of the laid off employees
Ewan Hooper: George, the senior assembly man
Nick Frost: arm-wrestling champion and tough guy Don

REVIEW
Because the movie is about an alternative sexual orientation, it might put some people off from seeing it. But there is no reason not to go since there is nothing risqué or anything that might offend anyone.
In fact, it is a story about a group of people who work together to achieve something in their lives. Based on a true story (with some liberties taken I’m sure) it’s often funny and well acted throughout. The music and dancing are a bonus.

CLASSIFICATION
for thematic material involving sexuality (drag queens) and for language (the odd swear word).

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