Maddman: The Steve Madden Story

Steve Madden is shown to be someone who works very hard at what he loves, and who learns from his mistakes. After serving time in prison, Madden found work for inmates who helped him get through his sentence, and continues to support programs that put former inmates to work. He also speaks frankly of his drug and alcohol addiction, and the toll it took on his life, and how his life improved when he became sober. 

Steve Madden's brother talks of the wild times he and his brother used to have when he lived in Miami in the 1970s. While waxing nostalgic, he talks of having numerous sexual liaisons with other women while married, and also makes reference to a sex act in which two men are having sex at the same time with one woman. Steve Madden's doorman talks of how Madden was always bringing women home while high on drugs, and tells the story of when Madden woke up from being passed out in the hallway completely naked and needed the key to get back into his apartment. When discussing Madden's stay in a federal penitentiary, a former inmate tells of the time he found Madden on the former inmate's bed seeking advice, when the former inmate informed him that sitting on another man's bed meant that "you want to be his boyfriend." 

The Steve Madden shoe brand is as much a topic of this documentary as Steve Madden the man. The history of the company, its rise, fall, then rebirth, and how the company revolutionized the fashion and shoe industries is a huge theme.