2014 · fantasy · comedy · drama
The Cobbler
Directed by Tom McCarthy1h 39m2014
Max Simkin repairs shoes in the same New York shop that has been in his family for generations. Disenchanted with the grind of daily life, Max stumbles upon a magical heirloom that allows him to step into the lives of his customers and see the world in a new way. Sometimes walking in another man's shoes is the only way one can discover who they really are.
Our read: The Cobbler (2014) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive fantasy · comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle fantasy / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
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