Boy in the Dress (The)
- Director: Matt Lipsey
- Writer: David Walliams; Kevin Cecil; Andy Riley
- Producer: Francis Gilson; Jo Sargent
CGiii Comment
What was that?!?
It's okay for a boy to wear a dress just because he's good at football?!?
Really...is that the message that Walliams is delivering? Buggered if he's crap at sport.
Okay, it has to be said...Walliams is rapidly becoming a royal pain-in-the-ass - his relentless campery is now tediously annoying. Turn it down a notch, or - better still - turn it off. Here, he plays a gay referee - nothing short of OFFENSIVE and UNFUNNY.
The rest of the adult cast are...atrocious - as is the script they had to deal with...Lipsey's direction...erm, what direction?!?
Gender identity is a serious subject that needs [periodically] a light-hearted approach - this is a flatulent frivolity.
The only good thing about this vacuous nonsense: The kid in the dress...brave.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Dennis attends a school with a very strict dress code and, although he is their football team's star striker, he feels out of place, missing the glamorous mother who walked out on the family, leaving him feeling estranged from his father. After being attracted to a fashion magazine he befriends free-spirited school-mate Lisa, a talented would-be designer, who persuades him to model a dress she has made. Initially he feels awkward but takes to the cross-dressing as his own form of rebellion and wears the dress to school, passing himself off as a French girl, but he is exposed and expelled by the stony headmaster.
Cast & Characters
Billy Kennedy as Dennis;
Felicity Montagu as Miss Price;
Tim McInnerny as Mr. Hawthorn;
Temi Orelaja as Lisa;
Jennifer Saunders as Miss Windsor;
Aaron Chawla as Darvesh;
Meera Syal as Jaspreet;
Rosheen Hinze as Cherise;
Oliver Barry-Brook as John;
Steve Speirs as Peter;
Emma Cooke as Mum;
Harish Patel as Raj;
Kate Moss as Herself;
Sonny Ashbourne Serkis as Gareth;
James Buckley as Mr. Norris