30th Anniversary Film Festival: Kinky Boots (12A)

21st July 2025 8:00pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

2005 – Kinky Boots (12A)

A well known story line as after the film it became a hit musical with music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper.

Charlie Price (Joel Edgerton) inherits the family business, a shoe factory in Northampton, England. He is not interested in shoes, and the factory is in such dire financial straits. However, a fortuitous encounter with a cabaret singer (Chiwetel Ejiofor) inspires his inspired attempts to save the factory.

Less known, perhaps is that it was originally based and inspired on an episode ofthe BBC2documentary series‘Trouble at the Top’, broadcast on 24 February 1999.

“Kinky Boots is hilarious and poignant enough to suspend scepticism and erase doubts”. Rex Read – Observer

Starring: Joel Edgerton; Chiwetel Ejiofor; Sarah-Jane Potts; Linda Bassett; Joanna Scanlon; David MacCreedy

Directed by Julian Jarrold

Running Time: 107 minutes

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David MacCreedy was born and raised in Workington. Although he only had a very small part in Kinky Boots (that of a heckler) he is better known for his role as Corporal Peter Polson in the BBC series ‘All Quiet on the Preston Front’ from 1994 to 1997.

The soundtrack for the film was composed by Emmy Award winning composer, Adrian Johnston, who was born and raised near Carlisle.