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Tell Others About This Page By Using This Button "KINKY BOOTS" (2006) (Joel Edgerton, Chiwetel Ejiofor) (PG-13) Alcohol/ Drugs Blood/Gore Disrespectful/ Bad Attitude Frightening/ Tense Scenes Guns/ Weapons Heavy Minor Heavy None None Imitative Behavior Jump Scenes Music (Scary/Tense) Music (Inappropriate) Profanity Mild Minor Minor Mild Heavy Sex/ Nudity Smoking Tense Family Scenes Topics To Talk About Violence Moderate Minor Moderate Moderate Minor QUICK TAKE: Comedy: After inheriting his father's beleaguered shoe company and then meeting a large drag queen who complains about poor footwear choices, a young man decides to retool the business and market their wares to men in drag. PLOT: Despite being the great-grandson of the man who started the Price & Sons shoe factory in Northampton, Charlie Price (JOEL EDGERTON) isn't that interested in the family business. Instead, he's moved away with his fiancée Nicola (JEMIMA ROOPER), but a phone call reporting his father's death brings him back home. There, he quickly finds that the factory is in bad business shape and realizes he might have to let some of the workers go. After drowning his sorrows at the local pub, he has a chance encounter with a brassy lounge singer, Lola (CHIWETEL EJIOFOR), and manages to save her from some troublemakers but ends up getting knocked out in the process. When Charlie comes to, he soon realizes that Lola is actually a guy in drag and watches him perform on stage before sneaking out. Back at the factory, Charlie unhappily starts to fire some of his employees, including Lauren (SARAH-JANE POTTS) who -- grasping at straws -- says that perhaps they should change their product. Remembering Lola complaining about the poor footwear choices for drag queens like himself, Charlie comes up with the idea to manufacture reinforced, high-heel boots for the likes of Lola and others of his ilk, a decision that initially doesn't sit that well with long-time workers such as Don (NICK FROST). Nevertheless, Charlie and Lola forge an unlikely friendship and business arrangement as the former tries to save the factory and its workers, while the latter must deal with others' reactions to him and the fact that he's nearing the upper age bracket for his line of work. WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT? A few might be interested in it, but that's about it. WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: PG-13 For thematic material involving sexuality, and for language. CAST AS ROLE MODELS: JOEL EDGERTON plays an unassuming young man who inherits his father's shoe factory and tries to save the business and his employees' jobs. With his relationship with Nicola faltering, he finds himself attracted to one of his workers (Lauren), all while trying to find the correct way to motivate his workers. He briefly uses strong profanity and drinks some (once to the point of intoxication). CHIWETEL EJIOFOR plays a middle-aged drag queen who performs as a cabaret type singer and must put up with others' reactions to him and his chosen profession. He drinks some. SARAH-JANE POTTS plays one of Charlie's employees who becomes his assistant after suggesting that they change their product in order to survive as a business. NICK FROST plays her coworker who initially has a bad attitude toward Lola and the overall change in what they're producing at the plant, but eventually has a change of heart. JEMIMA ROOPER plays Charlie's fiancée who ends up cheating on him after becoming frustrated by his insistence of trying to save the business. CAST, CREW, & TECHNICAL INFO HOW OTHERS RATED THIS MOVIE Curious if this title is entertaining, any good, and/or has any artistic merit? Then read OUR TAKE of this film. (Note: The "Our Take" review of this title examines the film's artistic merits and does not take into account any of the possibly objectionable material listed below). OUR WORD TO PARENTS: The following is a brief summary of the content found in this dramedy that's been rated PG-13. Profanity consists of at least 1 "f" word, while other expletives and colorful phrases are uttered. Some sexually related dialogue is present, as are sights of various drag queens (men dressed as women) in some skimpy/revealing attire, while some slight sexual tension is present between a man and woman. Some thematic issues are present, including that transvestitism as well as strained father/son relationships, a parental death and a woman cheating on her fiancé. Some characters have bad attitudes, while drinking occurs (with one character being intoxicated) and it's possible the film could inspire some kids to dress up like the opposite sex. Should you still be concerned about the film's appropriateness for yourself or anyone else in your home, you may want to look more closely at our detailed listings for more specific information regarding the film's content. For those concerned with bright flashes of light on the screen, there are near strobe-like effects of camera flashes going off during a fashion show. ALCOHOL OR DRUG USE Nicola opens a bottle of champagne to celebrate them moving to their new place, but a phone call interrupts their celebration. Charlie holds a bottle of champagne while addressing his factory workers. Charlie stumbles out of a pub and appears intoxicated. Lola pours vodka for Charlie and himself, and both down theirs in one gulp each. Nicola has a glass of wine at work. Charlie has a beer at the drag show where others also drink. During a montage of drag performances, we see people drink at the club. Lola has some vodka. Some factory workers have beer in front of them. Some factory workers have beer, with Don having a beer and Lola having a shot of liquor. Workers have champagne to celebrate completing a project. Lola orders a Bloody Mary but ends up not having it. Miscellaneous people drink in a club. BLOOD/GORE Charlie and another man stand at urinals in a bathroom (we hear related sounds, but don't see the actual act). DISRESPECTFUL/BAD ATTITUDE We see a flashback to young Lola dancing in high heels on a deserted boardwalk, with his stern father banging on a glass window and saying, "C'mon you stupid boy." While intoxicated, Charlie comes across three guys harassing Lola in an alley. An intoxicated man yells out to Lola during a performance, "Show us your t*ts." That man then jokingly wonders if they're as wrinkly as Lola's arms. Charlie hides Lola from his factory workers as long as possible (being embarrassed). When Lola asks where the factory bathroom is, Don snidely replies that they only have either men's or women's bathrooms. It turns out Nicola is having a fling with her real estate agent (we see her playing footsie with him under the table and both of them flee when Charlie shows up at a restaurant and accidentally surprises them). Nicola won't speak to Lola upon first meeting him. We see a poster where Don has modified the words to read "Queer" and "Bender" about Lola. Charlie pushes his workers hard and criticizes their work when he's striving for perfection. Charlie is rude to Lola (about being a guy in drag), angrily telling him to stop hiding and instead be brave. FRIGHTENING SCENES None. GUNS/WEAPONS None. IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR Phrases: "A mighty f*cking gamble," "Show us your t*ts," "C'mon you stupid boy," "Bloody," "Bugger," "What the hell..?" "Pass me my boobs," "You miserable sod," "Bastard," "Blokes," "Fags got him in the end" (meaning Lola and cigarettes), "Piss off," what sounded like "Oh sod it" and "Worked our asses off." The film could inspire some kids to dress up someone of the opposite sex. Don has some tattoos. About both himself and the cigarettes his father smoked, Lola says, "Fags got him in the end." JUMP SCENES A worker surprises Charlie in his office (done accidentally). MUSIC (SCARY/TENSE) A tiny bit of suspenseful music plays in one scene. MUSIC (INAPPROPRIATE) Lola sings a song during a drag performance that includes a line about "I don't need love affairs anymore." Lola sings a song during a fashion show that includes lines about "Let's make love on a mountain" (on a hard rock). PROFANITY At least 1 "f" word (and another incomplete one), 1 "s" word, 2 slang terms for breasts ("t*ts" and "boobs"), 3 variations of sod, 2 hells, 1 ass, 1 bugger, 1 crap, 2 uses each of "God" and "Oh Christ" and 1 use each of "My God," "Oh God" and "Oh my God." SEX/NUDITY Lola (a guy), who's shirtless up top, tells Charlie to "pass me my boobs" (which is a padded bra). Throughout the film, we see various transvestites (in the drag queen show, in the audience, backstage, etc.). Charlie sees two of them in close contact (dressed and standing), while those in the show (dressed like women) are in varying styles of revealing attire (nothing explicit in terms of nudity, but lots of leg, etc.). During one musical number, some of them lie in silhouette in the background and have their spread legs in the air, while another poses as a pole dancer (although he has on more clothes than the usual women in that sort of role). Charlie has Lauren try on his prototype thigh-high boot, with him zipping it up for her, resulting in his hand being up at her clothed crotch (with both giving pause for a moment about that position). Charlie then says that if she doesn't have anything going on, "can you come back..." with her filling in for him, "To my house?" but he then completes his thought "to the factory" (to work). An intoxicated man yells out to Lola during a performance, "Show us your t*ts." That man then jokingly wonders if they're as wrinkly as Lola's arms. After spotting Lola for the first time and believing him to be a woman, Don boasts that women get turned on by the sight of the working man. When he spots Lola inside, he invites him to come over and sit on his lap (with Don looking at Lola's clothed chest), with Lola doing so but then saying he's a "bloke." When Charlie shows Lola his prototype thigh-high boot, Lola is upset that it's red, saying that red is the color of sex but also a sign that says do not enter. Charlie then argues that the boots are comfy, with Lola replying that "sex should not be comfy" (with a female factory worker agreeing) and that they're talking about "two and a half feet of tubular sex." When he leaves, Lola says that sex is in the heel. When Charlie doesn't know what that means, his female assistant says that wearing heals requires balance that causes leg muscles to be tense that in turn causes one's buttocks to be taut and "ready for mating." Charlie tells his workers that they're making "two and a half feet of irresistible tubular sex." Nicola complains that Charlie is "making porn-ware for hermaphrodites," with Lola then trying to explain she has the wrong term by defining what that means. Lola occasionally carries an S&M type riding crop. Charlie has to model his drag queen, thigh-high boots at a fashion show, and thus walks out wearing a suit top, shirt and tie up top, but just those boots and his boxers down below. As he stumbles on those heels, we see various views of him in his underwear. Lola sings a song during a fashion show that includes lines about "Let's make love on a mountain" (on a hard rock). Charlie and Lauren briefly do some passionate, clothed kissing while standing. SMOKING A miscellaneous person smokes. About both himself and the cigarettes his father smoked, Lola says, "Fags got him in the end." TENSE FAMILY SCENES We see a flashback to young Lola dancing in high heels on a deserted boardwalk, with his stern father banging on a glass window and saying, "C'mon you stupid boy." Charlie and his fiancée get a call and we then see them at his father's funeral where he drops a new shoe down onto the casket already in the ground. Lola says that his boxer father disowned him, even when the latter got lung cancer. It turns out Nicola is having a fling with her real estate agent (we see her playing footsie with him under the table and both of them flee when Charlie shows up at a restaurant and accidentally surprises them). We see Lola back on the above boardwalk where he imagines his father banging on the window (just like above). TOPICS TO TALK ABOUT The comment that the first thing you notice about people is their shoes. Lola explains the difference between transvestites and drag queens (who he says are more glamorous). On several occasions, we hear people at a drag show say, "Ladies and gentlemen and those who've yet to make up their mind." Lola's statement that he's only confident in his drag dress. Lola says that his boxer father disowned him, even when the latter got lung cancer. The notion of fitting in or not with others. Lola's comment that he and Charlie should just pretend they know what they're doing (in life). Nicola telling Charlie that he doesn't owe anything to his late father. Charlie mortgaging his home to have an entry fee for a fashion show in Milan. Nicola complains that Charlie is "making porn-ware for hermaphrodites," with Lola then trying to explain she has the wrong term by defining what that means. The comment to judge what you leave behind by what you inspire in others. Nicola cheats on Charlie. VIOLENCE While intoxicated, Charlie comes across three guys harassing Lola in an alley. When he walks up, Lola breaks away from them and then tries to strike at them with his shoes, but accidentally hits Charlie in the face, stunning him (he falls to his knees and then collapses in the alley). Charlie has to model his drag queen, thigh-high boots at a fashion show, and thus walks out in them. But he starts to stumble and eventually falls to the runway, hitting his head and knocking himself silly. Reviewed May 12, 2006 / Posted May 19, 2006

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