A BBC documentary series about failing businesses might seem an unlikely place to find light laughs, but an episode of
Trouble at the Top featuring a "kinky-boot factory" is what inspired Julian Jarrold's formulaic heart-warmer about an old-fashioned, family-owned shoe factory rescued from bankruptcy by the fetish-footwear needs of drag queens. Charlie Price (Australian actor Joel Edgerton) has been groomed since childhood to take over the family's Northampton manufacturing business, though everyone but his doting dad (Robert Pugh), who thrills to the smell of shoe leather in the morning, knows the truth: The cobbling gene has skipped a generation. Charlie is ...
Released:
2006
Rated:
NR
Length:
107 mins