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- 2000
- R
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
- 1 h 35 m
- 2000
- R
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
- 1 h 35 m
Summary The story of two brothers in Newcastle, Australia. One (Garcia) wants to pursue a career as a tap dancer, and the other (Worthington) wants to start his own business.
Directed By: Dein Perry
Written By: Steve Worland, Hilary Linstead, Dein Perry
- 2000
- R
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
- 1 h 35 m
- 2000
- R
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
- 1 h 35 m
Bootmen
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Summary The story of two brothers in Newcastle, Australia. One (Garcia) wants to pursue a career as a tap dancer, and the other (Worthington) wants to start his own business.
Directed By: Dein Perry
Written By: Steve Worland, Hilary Linstead, Dein Perry
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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21% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
57% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
21% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
45
21% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
57% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
21% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Silly in some parts, but sheer fun in most, Bootmen will get you wiggling in your seat with a big grin pasted on your face.
Clichés negate bona fides; hence, the movie feels like a corny Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland vehicle with cussing. That said, the tapping is fabulous.
What it gains in fun, the film loses in credibility, as the production number itself more closely resembles a high-priced Las Vegas extravaganza than a quickly organized charity event.
"Footloose" meets "The Full Monty" in Bootmen, a cliché-ridden tap dance drama.
Bootmen is the story of a young dancer and his friends who revisit the cliches of countless other dance movies in order to bring forth a dance performance of clanging unloveliness.
There's 80 minutes of mawkish, overacted melodrama - laced with gratuitous violence and profanity - before we get to anything more than the briefest snippet of a dance number.
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Awards
Australian Film Institute
• 5 Wins & 8 Nominations
Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
Australian Cinematographers Society
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
