The Christmas Shoes (2002)

I wanted to but couldn't!

hyped garbage

Captivating movie !

Beautiful, moving film.

this a emotional film with rob Lowe character Robert Layton who plays a lawyer is a high flying workaholic whose life is virtual non existent realizing they are drifting apart his wife Kate throws herself into her school play a Xmas approaches the music teacher Maggie has a life threatening illness Kate takes control of her class and the two families intertwine as Robert Layton's mother says make memories not hide on Xmas eve Robert crosses paths with Maggie son Nathan is desperate trying to achieve his mothers dream so hes looking for a job or collect recyclable items s to get her dream Robert discovers that money and status are not what life is about as he changes someone else life as he needs help the smallest miracle changes a mans life only realize who this person was as a child as but great Xmas movie at 1hr 30mins

A magical story about a pair of shoes that bring two strangers together. It's a tear jerker so it may not everyone's idea of a family Christmas movie, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.Plot In A Paragraph: Two separate stories come together, in the first, a young music teacher, Maggie Andrews, is dying due to a heart problem and her son Nathan is trying to buy her a pair of Christmas shoes for her before she dies. In the second story, workaholic lawyer Robert Layton (Rob Lowe) and his wife Kate are drifting apart and things come to a head during Christmas when Kate takes over for Maggie for the school choir and turns down a job with Roberts company. Robert and Nathan's paths cross as Nathan tries to raise money for the shoes and Robert tries to get a present for his daughter.Rob Lowe is excellent as both the jerk and the guy who has seen the error of his ways. Dorian Harewood (who I must has seen in over 50 movies and TV shows, but none immediately come to mind) deserves special praise, as does Kimberley Williams Paisley and Max Morrow.

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.

When we first heard this song, we thought it was a joke. Surely, no one would write such tripe seriously, would they? If mommy meets Jesus tonight? My wife tortured me by making me watch the last 40 minutes.I swear to you it felt like the longest five hours of my life! She was laughing the whole time. I almost drew up a contract to make her sign that I could have that time back (kind of like I did when she made me watch "girls just want to have fun" or "riding in cars with boys") The kid's acting was nails on a chalkboard. A 12 year-old buying shoes and acting like Zac Ephron is Stallone. I'm not a scrooge, I like my share of Christmas sediment, but this song, book, movie, cartoon whatever is awful!