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The boot's a hoot!
For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe... a young man's life is almost lost, which is exactly what this film is all about: a man barely twenty who wants desperately to pull out of London's drug world by taking a job as a waiter in a 'normal' restaurant. But to do this he must come up with a "sensible" pair of shoes, an item that his homeless meanderings hasn't provided him.Read moreLess
For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe... a young man's life is almost lost, which is exactly what this film is all about: a man barely twenty who wants desperately to pull out of London's drug world by taking a job as a waiter in a 'normal' restaurant. But to do this he must come up with a "sensible" pair of shoes, an item that his homeless meanderings hasn't provided him.
The story
For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe... a young man's life is almost lost, which is exactly what this film is all about: a man barely twenty who wants desperately to pull out of London's drug world by taking a job as a waiter in a 'normal' restaurant. But to do this he must come up with a "sensible" pair of shoes, an item that his homeless meanderings hasn't provided him.
Cast & crew
Justin ChadwickClint Eastwood
Steven MackintoshMuffdiver
Emer McCourtSylvie
Roshan SethDr. Bubba
Fiona ShawHeadley
Brad DourifHemingway
Naveen AndrewsBike
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Tony HaygarthBurns
Nick DunningFaulkner
Stevan RimkusTom Tom
Eleanor DavidLilyExplore the crew
- Director
- Hanif Kureishi
- Writer
- Hanif Kureishi
- Editor
- Jon Gregory
- Director of Photography
- Edward Lachman
- Producer
- Tim Bevan
- Producer
- Judith Hunt
- Original Music Composer
- Sarah Sarhandi
- Original Music Composer
- Mark Springer