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KINKY BOOTS
Synopsis from IMDb
Charles Price may have
grown up with his father in the family shoe business, but he never thought that
he would take his father's place. Yet, the untimely death of his father places
him in that position, only to learn that Price & Sons Shoes is failing.
While in despair at his failed attempts to save the business, Charles has a
chance encounter with the flamboyant drag queen cabaret singer, Lola. Her
complaints about the inadequate footwear for her work combined with one of
Charles' ex-employees, Lauren, leads to a suggestion to change the product to
create a desperate chance to save the business: make men's fetish footwear.
Lola is convinced to be their footwear designer and the transition begins. Now
this disparate lot must struggle at this unorthodox idea while dealing both the
prejudice of the staff, Lola's discomfort in the small town and the selfish
manipulation of Charles' greedy fiancée who cannot see the greater good in
Charles' dream.
Price
& Sons, located in Northampton, is a fourth generation owned and operated
family business specializing in quality shoes for men. The heir apparent to the
company, Charlie Price, is not planning on taking over the company but rather
move to London with his fiancée, Nicola Marsden, both who want to get as far
away from the company and the close-mindedness of Northampton as possible.
Charlie's plans change when Harold Price, Charlie's father and current company
president, suddenly dies. In dealing with immediate company issues, Charlie
learns that the primary contract on which the company had been working has long
expired - something that Harold hid from everyone - meaning that there is no
work and little prospect for work with their current line of shoes. Under the
circumstances, Charlie feels he has no other option but to lay off several of
his employees. Instead, Nicola wants Charlie to sell the business; she even
finds a buyer, a property developer who wants to convert the factory into
upscale condos. But one of Charlie's employees, a young woman named Lauren who
would be one of those laid off, believes Charlie would be taking the easy way
out by either of these options and that he is not looking out for the interests
of the company's loyal and hard working employees. She suggests he change the
business model and create another line of shoes in a niche market. Upon a
chance meeting with a relatively large drag queen named Lola, Charlie comes up
with the idea of specializing in fashionable women's boots made for the general
heft of drag queens. There are many obstacles to converting the business to
this new model including meshing fashionable design with the required
functionality of the boots, and having a relatively conservative town, business
and employees into supporting this change, especially with their target market
being "unfamiliar" people such as Lola. With Lola's assistance, these
changes are both advanced and hindered. Charlie believes that to make the
company truly successful in this new model, he has to show the boots during the
Milan fashion season using the target market, drag queens, as the models.
Showing in Milan takes money, money which Charlie doesn't have. But more
importantly, Charlie has to overcome some internal issues with himself to be successful
in this venture.
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