When we first see Keke Palmer’s character Corvette in “I Love Boosters,” she’s strutting through a nightclub and crosses paths with a flirtatious man. The first thing she asks him is his shoe size. He replies that he’s a size 12, and she immediately invites him back to her apartment.
It turns out that she has some stolen shoes to sell him.
The apartment scene in Boots Riley’s new anti-capitalist shoplifting opus was one of the first ideas he had for the film, now brought to life on screen 20 years after he wrote a song that would eventually inspire the movie’s title…