by Butterfly-Wings

Created on: May 21, 2008

Kinky Boots is a British comedy/drama movie which was released on October 7th 2005. The film was directed by Julian Jarrold whom also directed Becoming Jane in 2007. The film was written by Geoff Deane and Tim Firth, and the plot for the film was inspired by the true story of a Traditional English men's shoe factory in Northampton which started producing shoes and boots for transvestites in order to keep the business thriving and in order to maintain the jobs for the local community. Kinky Boots has a BBFC rating of 12 due to some sexual content and bad language. The film has an average run time of approximately 107 minutes.

Kinky Boots portrays the story of Charlie Price (Joel Edgerton) whom inherits the family's Traditional Shoe Business in Northampton after his father dies suddenly. All is not well however and Charlie soon realises that the family business Price and Son's faces bankruptcy if he doesn't find another way to raise the cash in order to keep the business afloat and pay his staff. Charlie starts sourcing London for new clients and ideas in order to raise more cash and revenue for the business when he meets Lola a transvestite from Soho who has a crazy outrageous fashion sense. Lola talks to Charlie about making large sized kinky boots for the make fetish market and Charlie agrees only if Lola designs the boots. It is a bit of a far shot but Charlie and Lola decide to persevere and see if their idea launches and saves the family business..
Charlie Price's character is played by Australian actor Joel Edgerton; I haven't watched any films in the past where Joel Edgerton plays a part. However his acting capabilities amazed me and so did the character he played, I really liked his character Charlie Price because he was sincere, genuine and an all round nice guy who thought of others before himself. You immediately sense that he would go out of his way in order to help someone out right from the start of the film and this is what makes the film as moving and heart felt as it is. One particular scene in the film which shows how caring and helpful Charlie actually is when he helps Lola when she is mugged in a street in London. There is great deal of emotion in this film and the emotion is mainly based around Charlie and Lola.

The emotion portrayed throughout the film is totally convincing and believable and I think that all the characters involved pull it off exceptionally well, mainly Charlie and Lola as they are the central characters. As well as Charlie

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