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The Christmas Shoes

2002 · 100 min

A gentle, tearful holiday drama that interweaves loss and reconciliation, asking for patience and rewarding it with heartfelt sentiment.

Directed by: Andy Wolk
Genres: Drama, Tv movie
Starring: Rob Lowe, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Max Morrow

Overview: 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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Directed by: Andy Wolk
Genres: Drama, Tv movie
Starring: Rob Lowe, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Max Morrow

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 3 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
family
love
parenthood
redemption
Places: small town
home
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Era: contemporary
Audience: family
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none

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Genres: drama, tv movie
Directed by: Andy Wolk
Written by: Wesley Bishop
Starring: Rob Lowe, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Max Morrow, Maria del Mar, Hugh Thompson, Dorian Harewood, Shirley Douglas, Amber Marshall
Music: Lawrence Shragge
Cinematography: John Berrie
Runtime: 100 min
Country: Canada, United States of America
Languages: Italian, English

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