Not a bad movie, actually. The English company was (briefly) saved by getting into the niche making of kinky boots for male transvestites. But a couple years later Asian companies got into the niche and drove them OOB.
Correction, it appears the company is still in business, or at least one of the same name in the same location.
Saw the movie several years ago...before o-king and mo-queen had been ‘seated’ on the throne. Must say that I enjoyed the movie and the wonderful spirit of the young factory owner who not only wished to save his father’s business, but to keep people who wished to be employed, employed. The ‘kinky boots’ creator/designer was admired as well. He/she/it wanted to help do the same and attempted to do so. That being said...the film was viewed tongue in cheek without the surrounding ohoop-la around US today. The movie, having no musical aspects certainly was not the same act currently produced for Broadway elites.
I rather enjoyed the film as well... the message of an industry dying at the hands of southeast Asian sweatshop slave labor was what I took away from it.