By Peter Keough
Feet figure prominently in first-time director Michael Tolajian's crisp and quirky variation on a familiar story, starting with the ill-smelling pair belonging to a stout customer that convince shoe salesman Ray Ray (Rafael Sardina), a Jersey City kid with ambitions of becoming a DJ, that he needs to seek better employment. So his pal Papo (Frank Harts) introduces him to local mobster "Chunks" Colon. Chunks assigns Ray to keep tabs on a crotchety old Armenian pawnshop owner (David Margulies) who owes him big time, and that leads to a conflict between Ray Ray's dreams and his decency.

Nothing terribly unexpected happens, a few of the stereotypes remain unredeemed (Ray Ray's J. Lo wanna-be girlfriend, for example), and some of the sentimentality gets cloying, but Bought's charm lies in its narrative efficiency and unpretentiousness and in the subtlety and grace of the performances, in particular those by Margulies and Hart. And then there's that fetish; those feet make a surprise return at the end. (91 minutes) Screens at the Copley Place tonight at 7 and 9:45 p.m. and tomorrow at noon and 2:15 and 4:30 p.m. Michael Tolajian will be present at tonight's 7 p.m. show.

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