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The Cobbler
The life of Max Simkin, an ordinary man who works in repairing shoes in New York, where he struggles against having the same day over and over, the thing that makes him depressed, has been changed, when he uses the magical shoe of his father, that manages him to enter other people's lives.
19 September 1969, Campobasso, Molise, Italy
8 August 1937, Los Angeles, California, USA
21 October 1987, Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
10 June 1983, Keelung, Taiwan
30 January 1966, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
10 October 1982, Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
23 August 1955, Spanish Harlem, New York City, New York, USA
9 September 1966, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
17 February 1978, Brooklyn, New York, USA
18 August 1964, Mount Vernon, New York, USA
16 April 1954, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
11 July 1993, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
February 29, 2016
Throughout the film's 99 minutes you will find yourself wondering whether this is a genuine black comedy, a family comedy, a dramedy, a cheap-shot drama, or possibly a melodramatic modern-day superhero story about being a good Samaritan.March 15, 2015
The conceit is both ridiculous and clever, but the director, Tom McCarthy, pushes it to facile conclusions without tapping its deeper potential ...March 12, 2015
"The Cobbler" is a wildly ill-conceived curio from director Tom McCarthy, who co-wrote with Paul Sado.February 27, 2016
Method Man is the easy standout, proving to be the most memorable piece of a film that embraces its slightness to warm hearts and lets the rest come what may.January 09, 2017
Ugh.July 27, 2015
A top-of-the-range supporting cast makes this grindingly dull experience almost bearable.March 13, 2015
Throughout The Cobbler, Sandler himself seems more invested than he's been for a long time. But the rest of this ghastly movie lets him down.April 02, 2016
You don't want to be in Adam Sandler's shoes right now.March 13, 2015
A failed fairy tale with a saccharine, klezmer-inflected tone undercut by the movie's own plot.January 03, 2016
The quirky magic-realist conceit has great potential but co-writer/director Tom McCarthy fails to bring it to a shine.March 13, 2015
"The Cobbler" is almost fascinatingly awful enough to recommend. If one subscribes to the theory that you can learn as much from a bad movie as from a good one, this one's a master class in what not to do.