THE BIG SHOE Update from @prodweek - @mel452

New Prod Weekly Update: “THE BIG SHOE” STATUS: September 2014
MAD CHANCE / TANGO PICTURES
LOCATION: South Africa PRODUCER: Andrew Lazar - Richard Middleton - Christina Weiss Lurie PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Steven Shainberg WRITER: Mickey Birnbaum - Steven Shainberg CAST: Jim Sturgess - Kristen Stewart - Elizabeth Banks
VOX3 FILMS HANWAY FILMS A gifted shoe designer, Nate, is forced to break free from a family who want to cheapen his art for their own commercial gain. “The Big Shoe” is a touching an sexy love story and a classic boy-to-man coming-of-age tale, with the colorful backdrop of the fashion/shoe industry. When a muse is strategically ‘planted’ along Nate’s path by his mother, he begins to embrace the mad “logic” of the creative drive, allowing his own deep impulses and wishes to finally be expressed and experienced. He’s revealing to her and to the world his secret. And, while it may make no real practical “sense” to do his art (shoemaking), Nate must.

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