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)
included · Enchanted
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
Time travel drives much of the story.
Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Enchanted.
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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Weighted archive score
high confidence
Aggregate source ratings
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 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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