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.

• DirectorHanif Kureishi
• Release13 December 1991
• Genre
  Comedy / Drama
• Duration1h 47m
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• Rate
  

  6.0
  12 reviews
• Productions

  Working Title Films, Film4 Productions