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Bootmen

Country: Australia, Language: English, 95 mins

  • Director: Dein Perry
  • Writer: Steve Worland; Hilary Linstead
  • Producer: Antonia Barnard; Hilary Linstead

CGiii Comment

Well, it's not exactly Billy Elliot...

The seriously feeble storyline is accompanied by clumsy and uninspired direction.

Apart from the dancing - it is a load of alpha-male bullshit.

Tap Dogs worked brilliantly on stage - the transference to screen is haphazardly ham-fisted.

And...the ending is truly terrible.

Watch Happy Feet instead.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Born charmer Sean Okden gave up tap-dancing when he started working in the steel mill, but as that's going down the hill he grabs his chance being the only candidate in his coastal Australian home town Newcastle selected for a Sidney show. Being sacked soon just for a row with the arrogant lead dancer, he returns to find his girlfriend in bed with his brother Mitchell, and decides to start his own tap-dance group wearing hardhats, which he soon gives an original edge when the steel mill inspires him to weld metal on their shoes and dance on industrial steel, so it the metallic acoustics fit well with a local rock group. Financing their local debut is so expensive, even when the mill allows them free us of its premises -opening some acrobatic perspectives- while even his father won't allow him to touch his mother's inheritance for the project, that the 'Bootmen' need to steal the cheerleaders' podium in a televised sports match to get media attention.

Cast & Characters

Adam Garcia as Sean Odken;
Sophie Lee as Linda;
Sam Worthington as Mitchell;
William Zappa as Walter;
Richard Carter as Gary;
Susie Porter as Sara;
Anthony Hayes as Huey;
Christopher Horsey as Angus;
Drew Kaluski as Colin;
Matt Lee as Johnno;
Lee McDonald as Derrick;
Vaughan Sheffield as Young Sean;
Christian Patterson as Young Mitchell;
Lisa Perry as Sean & Mitchell's Mother;
Bruce Venables as Williams