GB / US
2005
1hr 46mins
Dir: Julian Jarrold
Starring: Joel Edgerton and Chiwetel Ejiofor
An ailing shoe manufacturer hires a drag queen to design glamorous boots
This comedy-drama features a scene at Wellingborough station, with an HST set passing in close-up. The train appears to be two, cut into one. The lead power car and coaches are in Midland Mainline metallic blue and white but they are then followed by an original Midland Mainline teal green and grey-liveried power car on the rear (it could be the same train but there are only four coaches between the power cars instead of eight). Wellingborough station masquerades as ‘Northampton’, a town closely associated to Northamptonshire’s shoe-making industry, but why Northampton station itself wasn’t used is anyone’s guess. Even more bizarrely, the same shot is repeated a little later in the film!
