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.
In His Father's Shoes has generally received mixed reviews.
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In His Father's Shoes was released in 1997 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 6 reviews, giving In His Father's Shoes (1997) an average rating of 58%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 76%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 40%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed In His Father's Shoes a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 58%, In His Father's Shoes is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1997, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 1997 with similar scores include films like Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas, Alien Resurrection and Mimic.
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