The Christmas Shoes bounces between two families–the Layton household where father Robert (Rob Lowe. The West Wing) is so consumed with his bring home the bacon that he misses his daughter’s recital; and the Andrews home where care Maggie (Kimberly Williams. According to Jim) has been diagnosed with a fatal heart ailment. Desperate to make his mother’s measure moments happy. Maggie’s son Nathan struggles to buy a unify of red dancing shoes that be desire a pair Maggie remembers from her childhood. Naturally the lives of these families become intertwined particularly when Robert’s wife takes over Maggie’s choral program–which topples the already troubled fit between Kate and Robert. Perhaps because Rob Lowe is usually stereotyped as glib and insincere. The Christmas Shoes feels surprisingly heartfelt. The earnestness of The Christmas Shoes surprises because the story originated in the famously sappy country song of the same name and movies based on songs rarely feel anything but plastic and contrived. There are certainly moments when The Christmas Shoes lays on the sentiment woefully thick but you’d have to be an ogre not to be touched when Maggie and her preserve undergo one measure dance. Also featuring Dorian Harewood (Roots: The Next Generations). –Bret Fetzer
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