Kinky Boots

You have to love the British film industry. If only the Canadian film industry could make the same sort of films. Of course we could have had a similar film policy to the British, one with quotas on the amount of Canadian content, but being nice Canadians we never developed our policies. However that is for another blog.

Back to British films. This latest charmer, Kinky Boots, has a rather formulaic story line with an ironic twist. Economic times have changed and the family business which has been around for hundreds of years simply doesn't work anymore. So what do you do when your father dies and leaves you his shoe factory which is going under? You have to develop a new product. Movies with similar story lines are Saving Grace (a widow selling pot to save the estate) and Green Fingers (where the cons learn a new way of life with flowers) just to name a couple.

I won't give the plot away but I think you can guess some of the story from the film's promotional poster. What could have been a dreary little film is given life with terrific performances by Chiwetel Ejiofor (who steals the show) and Joel Edgerton.

The film made its North American debut at the Sundance Film Festival where I believe it won the audience's best film award. There are some very funny parts, some sad parts, some predictable parts and it has no nudity and only one swear word.

If you can't see it in the theatre, then buy all means it is a sure bet as a rental.