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In His Father's Shoes (1997)

In His Father's Shoes (1997)

Drama Family TV Movie

Discover what is truly important in your life.

Release Date: 1997, June 5
Directors: Vic Sarin
Countries: Canada, United States of America
Production: Temple Street Productions, Elkins Entertainment, CITY-TV, Dan Redler Entertainment, Hallmark Entertainment
Cast: Barbara Eve Harris, Louis Gossett Jr., Robert Ri'chard, Kevin Duhaney, Fiona Reid, Dan Warry-Smith, Rachael Crawford, Dylan Provencher, Shadia Simmons, Djanet Sears

Overview:

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.