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Actors: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sarah-Jane Potts, Joel Edgerton
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Kinky Boots |
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Charlie Price, born and raised in Northamptonshire (northern England), has been long expected to take over his father's shoe factory. When his father dies suddenly, Charlie somewhat relutantly becomes the owner/operator of Price & Sons Shoes. He also takes on a significant debt load and a product line waning in popularity. His ambitious girlfriend, Nicola, wants to encourage Charlie to find new, more lucrative opportunities, including selling the factory to a condo developer, but Charlie feels responsible for his father's loyal employees and their fate. He tries to find distributors and stores to sell the factory's outstanding inventory and place new orders, but to no avail. To Nicola's annoyance, he mortgages his house in order to raise money to pay the employees, but nonetheless has to let some of them go.
On one of his disappointing sales trips to London, however, Charlie unexpectedly enters a drag cabaret and meets Lola, the cabaret's star performer. Lola, formerly Simon, has a flair for fashion and design. Charlie sees an opportunity to bring new life into his factory and fill the market niche for sexy footwear for drag queens. Convincing Lola to leave London for working-class Northamptonshire, Charlie re-hires his laid-off employees and starts the new product line. Along the way, Lola encounters too-familiar judgements and ignorance about masculinity and femininity, and her place in this black-and-white world.
The new footwear line, designed by Lola, is a hit, though Charlie and Lola are dismissed for their unconventional "kinky boot" line. Nicola gives up on Charlie, but his employees remain loyal and the factory takes on a new life, thanks to the extraordinary vision of Lola and Charlie.
--Jan Arata, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Kinky Boots |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- businessman, saving a faltering
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- small businessman
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) very short/crewcut
Body type
- (man) muscular
Unclothed?
- very tight clothes
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- business executive
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) average
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
City?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- full of laughter
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
If lots of song/dance...
- lot of singing and dancing
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Jazz/r&b
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