The Christmas Shoes (2002)
Two separate stories mesh - in the first, a young music teacher, Maggie Andrews, begins dying of a heart condition and her son Nathan tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for her before she dies. In the second, lawyer Robert Layton and his wife Kate are slowly drifting apart and the matter comes to a head during Christmas when Kate takes over for Maggie for the school choir.
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Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay
This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny
A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
I am not a big fan of the song – don't let that put you off seeing this movie. The characters are well defined, the acting fleshes out those characters nicely, and the plot does a nice job of weaving together the lives of different people who you come to care about. There are themes of friendship between women, the wonderful joy that neighborliness can bring, the possibility of genuine good community life, the way that worthy goals can become twisted if we allow that to happen, and the way one small good decision can have a powerful impact. Nicely done, and if you're not a huge fan of the song - it doesn't intrude too much. A good movie to watch near the beginning of the Christmas season to remind us all of what is most important during that time.
This is a very heartwarming and tragic tale about a boy who wants to buy his mom some beautiful shoes for Christmas before she dies. The young boy does a fabulous job acting and is quite believable.Rob Lowe does a good job portraying a workaholic attorney who has his priorities all mixed up but learns some important lessons along the while. There are some sweet tender moments, but there are some real tough, real life issues presented here too. I would be careful letting very young children watch this as they may find the death of the mom too upsetting. But I think it would be good for older children to watch. My daughter has a best friend whose mom dies of breast cancer, and I think this would have been good for her to watch with me as a type of life lesson on the things her friend has had to face at such a young age.I highly recommend this movie. And the song that this movie derives from is quite moving as well.
I just watched this tonight and I had tears in my eyes. Wow, how can you not see the real meaning of life after watching this. Life is to short and to spend it chasing the all mighty dollar is a shame especially when you realize it can not bring a loved one back, only memories can! One can not have memories of a loved one if they do not spend time with them.This movie is a great Christmas movie and makes one realize what Christmas is really about. Sometimes the little gifts in life are the most treasured. I hope to see this movie again.
I rented this movie from my church and just got finished watching it. I never read the book but I've heard the song on the radio, and cried the first time i heard it. The acting was superb especially Rob Lowe as Robert Layton (he's one of my favorite actors). The boy who played Nathan was excellent his acting was so good and realistic that I cried with him. It's especially sad that his mom died at Christmastime. The choir who sang outside the home were beautiful they sounded like a professional choir. I'm not gonna ruin it for people who haven't seen it but I will say that I definitely recommend it to people who believe in miracles and how the smallest ones can change your life.