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In His Father's Shoes

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.

Drama, Family, TV Movie

Before you choose

What kind of time-travel story is this?

Time travel drives much of the story.

Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Enchanted.

Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)

Clay can repeatedly enter his father's childhood by putting on the shoes and return by removing them, driving his investigation of the family past.

Magical wingtip shoes transport Clay into his father's early life; the consulted evidence does not securely establish consciousness replacement.

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An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.

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Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan18.3

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance8/10

high confidence

Quality consensus5.0/10

Aggregate source ratings

How Titan works

Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.

Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]

This film: 25.68 base × 71.2% weighting.

Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.

The evidence

Research & sources

Research notes may reveal plot details.

These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.

Cast: Louis Gossett Jr., Barbara Eve Harris, Rachael Crawford, Djanet Sears, Robert Ri'chard

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Releases & formats

2 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.

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DVD

In His Father's Shoes (1997)

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Release date
Feb 08, 2005
Studio
Echo Bridge Entertainment
Resolution
480i (NTSC)
Region / playback
Region 1
Discs
DVD | Single disc (1 DVD)
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DVD

Hallmark Collector's Set V.3 (1997-2006)

Compare this edition’s specifications
Release date
Mar 02, 2010
Studio
Echo Bridge Entertainment
Resolution
480i (NTSC)
Region / playback
Region 1
Discs
DVD | Single disc (1 DVD)
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