Went to the movies with Charissa last night. We saw Kinky Boots.
Inspired by the true story of a man's fight to save a family business, Kinky Boots stars Australia's Joel Edgerton as the Oxford Brogue-shod Charlie Price stepping up to take the helm of the generations-old family shoe factory after his dad snuffs it.
When he realises there is no market for the thousands of shoes in the Northampton storeroom, and he's threatened with having to sell the place, he pounds the pavement back in London to find a buyer, and there he meets his angel in six-inch stilletoes: Lola the drag queen cabaret singer.
Lola's footwear becomes a source of inspiration, and soon she is installed at the shoe factory as the designer of not just boots, but "three feet of tubular sex" in time for the Milan shoe show.
A heartwarmingly, touchingly funny film in the style of Billy Elliot, touching on issues such as prejudice, tradition, duty, and materialism, filled with fabulous footwear and real, likeable characters.
A fun film. :)
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