Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Hayleigh Joseph This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

slightlymad22 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.

Armand adaptation of a book, classic story of Christmas - mixture between emotions, tears and faith, parable about the conquest of sense and triumph of good feelings, it can be, at first sigh, only part of a series. but something is different in its case. not only the performance of actors or Hallmark atmosphere who is not really pink, the Christian strong message or the shoes but the grace of story. a story like an ice frame. each wrong step can destroy its magic. or that is the good point - all is at perfect place. in a perfect circle. so, a little more than a classic Christmas movie. maybe, in a special version, a lesson. about miracles and the others as seeds of them.

Josh Hughes If we could've stopped at a corny American song about Christmas shoes, perhaps the world would've have been a slightly happier place. Instead, someone decided to put time and effort into making 100 painful minutes of heart- and stomach-wrenching film to depress us even further.From the agony of seeing a family torn apart on Christmas Eve to the general sense of doom and sadness in the surrounding community, "The Christmas Shoes" is crammed full of uniquely American sentimentality that requires a strong stomach and some even stronger tissues. Why anyone would consciously put themselves through this over the holiday season beats me.The film's only saving grace is as a reminder of what's important in life. To a certain extent, the lessons are brought home more forcefully because of the Christmas setting, so in this regard the film is a triumph in heart-string manipulation.As for those horrifically ugly red shoes, well... what was the wardrobe department thinking?

yamar-2 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!