Movies like In His Father's Shoes
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In His Father's Shoes (1997)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A fortyish cancer-stricken, emaciated Frank Crosby and his fifteen-year-old son Clay, who is the healthful, youthful image of his father, are spending an afternoon enjoying the atmosphere of Venice Beach. They enter Oddities, a store where the gypsy woman owner gives them a pair of special wingtip shoes. Later that night in the hospital where Frank lay dying, he shares with Clay his memory of a postcard image: a golf course where people are playing and are leisurely sipping tea. Frank dies and leaves behind a distraught family: Clay, his little sister Maggie, and their mother Janice. Clay wistfully goes to his father's closet and finds the wingtips from earlier in the day. Putting them on, he is transported back in time and becomes his father as a child. He discovers he can travel back and forth in time just by putting on or taking off the shoes. Clay learns a great deal about his father's early years and is eager to learn more.
Style:
sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, offbeat
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
youth, family relations, parents and children, family life, teenage life, switching roles, homecoming, estrangement, hopes, magic, cancer, father son relationship, time travel, profanity, imaginary, family
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, semi serious and sentimental films with plots about family relations, youth, parents and children, teenage life, hopes, family life and coming of age mostly in Drama, Family and Comedy genres. Some movies like In His Father's Shoes: Booky's Crush (2009), The Year of Getting to Know Us (2008), Just a Dream (2002), Too Young to Be a Dad (2002), Far North (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Story:
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