Agreeable performances and a low-key narrative keep this gimmicky family fantasy's feet firmly planted on earth. This Showtime-financed film won a 1997 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Special.
Frank Crosby (Louis Gossett Jr.) and his 15-year-old son Clay (Robert Ri'chard) go to a funky junk shop, at which Frank impulsively buys a pair of gaudy wingtip shoes from a mystic gyspy lady (Fiona Reid). Clay has a loving relationship with his ailing dad, and wonders why Frank never talks to his
own parents. That painful matter remains unresolved, for Frank subsequently dies of the cancer that his wife (Barbara Eve Harris) had long treated with herbal medic...
Released:
1997
Rated:
PG
Length:
105 mins