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* BedTrick: A variation is just ''barely'' averted in one of the [[{{Squick}} squickier]] scenes. Max, disguised as the hot boyfriend of a girl he likes, is [[ShowerOfLove invited to join her in the shower]] and jumps at the opportunity... until he realizes he'd have to take off the his shoes to do so.
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* BrokenAesop: Somehow manages to break what would normally be a CaptainObviousAesop. Many have noticed that despite the obvious "learn things by walking in other people's shoes" message, Max doesn't treat any of the other bodies he uses as anything more than tools, and plays their personalities as broad stereotypes.
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* AppliedPhlebotinum: The manual shoe-stitcher, although it apparently only works its magic on shoes that are size 10 1\2.
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''The Cobbler'' is a 2014 comedy-drama written and directed by Tom [=McCarthy=] and starring Creator/AdamSandler, Melonie Diaz, Music/MethodMan, [[Music/WuTangClan MethodMan]], Creator/SteveBuscemi, Ellen Barkin, Creator/DanStevens, and Creator/DustinHoffman.
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* PacifismBackfire: In one scene Max impersonates Ludlow and saves another criminal from being killed. His kindness is not being repaid as later said baddie turns out to be a UngratefulBastard who kidnaps Max (disguised as Ludlow) in order to off him and pities him for his poor choice.
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* PacifismBackfire: In one scene Max impersonates Ludlow and saves another criminal from being killed. His kindness is not being repaid as later said baddie turns out to be a an UngratefulBastard who kidnaps Max (disguised as Ludlow) in order to off him and pities him for his poor choice.
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* PacifismBackfire: In one scene Max impersonates Ludlow and saves another criminal from being killed. His kindness is not being repaid as later said baddie turns out to be a UngratefulBastard who kidnaps Max (disguised as Ludlow) in order to off him and pities him for his poor choice.
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* SavingTheOrphanage: A side plot deals with saving the building Mr. Solomon's lives in from destruction.
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* ChekhovsGunman: The newsreport who is introduced early on comes back at the end during the EngineeredPublicConfession.
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* EngineeredPublicConfession: While Elaine Greenawalt [[JustBetweenYouAndMe believes she is in private private]] with Mr. Solomon, she threatens to kill him and his daughter if he doesn't let go of his apartment. What she doesn't realize is that a newsman captured the conversation on tape from behind the door.
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* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Max's father explains that he left his family and went undercover because he feared for their lives and this was the only way he could protect them. [[FridgeLogic If you think about it]], instead of going into hiding he [[ReedRichardsIsUseless could have made a fortune using the shoe switch]] and then left with his family for good.
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* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Max's father explains that he left his family and went undercover because he feared for their lives and this was the only way he could protect them. [[FridheLogic If you think about it]], instead of going into hiding he [[ReedRichardsIsUseless could have made a fortune using the shoe switch]] and then left with his family for good.
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* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Max's father explains that he left his family and went undercover because he feared for their lives and this was the only way he could protect them. [[FridheLogic [[FridgeLogic If you think about it]], instead of going into hiding he [[ReedRichardsIsUseless could have made a fortune using the shoe switch]] and then left with his family for good.
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* TestesTest: Max tries on a woman's heels to make sure the transormation is really happening. One hand down his pants later reveals that it is.
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* AgeCut: An interesting version. The opening AMinorKidroduction ends with
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* BrokenAesop: Somehow manages to break what would normally be a CaptainObviousAesop. Many have noticed that despite the obvious "learn things by walking in other people's shoes" message, Max doesn't treat any of the other bodies he uses as anything more than tools, and plays their personalities as broad stereotypes.
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* BrokenAesop: Somehow manages to break what would normally be a CaptainObviousAesop. Many have noticed that despite AsianSpeekeeEngrish: When Max steps into the obvious "learn things shoes of an Asian man, he is surprised to hear himself talk Engrish.
* AssholeVictim: {{Jerkass}} Ludlow. When he is accidentally killed bywalking in other people's shoes" message, Max doesn't treat any of the other bodies he uses as anything more than tools, and plays their personalities as broad stereotypes.Max, nobody really feels sorry for him.
* AssholeVictim: {{Jerkass}} Ludlow. When he is accidentally killed by
* BoundAndGagged: Ludlow wakes up bound and gagged in his flat after Max took him out with a taser gun.
* BrokenAesop: Somehow manages to break what would normally be a CaptainObviousAesop. Many have noticed that despite the obvious "learn things by walking in other people's shoes" message, Max doesn't treat any of the other bodies he uses as anything more than tools, and plays their personalities as broad stereotypes.
* ChekhovMIA: As the rule states, a DisappearedDad who is not dead, will eventually return later in the story.
* ChekhovsGun: Jimmy asks Max in the beginning of the movie if he gave his mother the pears Jimmy had gotten her. Later when Max's father was having the dinner with his mom, it's mentioned that he went missing after going out to get some pears.
* ChekhovsGunman: The newsreport who is introduced early on comes back at the end during the EngineeredPublicConfession.
* BrokenAesop: Somehow manages to break what would normally be a CaptainObviousAesop. Many have noticed that despite the obvious "learn things by walking in other people's shoes" message, Max doesn't treat any of the other bodies he uses as anything more than tools, and plays their personalities as broad stereotypes.
* ChekhovMIA: As the rule states, a DisappearedDad who is not dead, will eventually return later in the story.
* ChekhovsGun: Jimmy asks Max in the beginning of the movie if he gave his mother the pears Jimmy had gotten her. Later when Max's father was having the dinner with his mom, it's mentioned that he went missing after going out to get some pears.
* ChekhovsGunman: The newsreport who is introduced early on comes back at the end during the EngineeredPublicConfession.
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* ConcealingCanvas: Ludlow has a safe behind his bathroom mirror where he keeps his precious watches.
* CryIntoChest: When Max finds his mother dead in her bed, he starts crying in her chest.
* DisappearedDad: Max's fatherAbrahamAbraham.
* CryIntoChest: When Max finds his mother dead in her bed, he starts crying in her chest.
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* EngineeredPublicConfession: While Elaine Greenawalt believes she is in private with Mr. Solomon, she threatens to kill him and his daughter if he doesn't let go of his apartment. What she doesn't realize is that a newsman captured the conversation on tape from behind the door.
* EurekaMoment: First Max doesn't understand why only certain shoes are equipped with the power. Then he has an eureka moment and rushes into the basement to check on the stitching machine.
* ExactEavesdropping: Max wakes up in the backseat of the henchmen's car at about the right time to overhear them talking about their plans.
* {{Fainting}}: When Max transform in front of a boy in the street, the latter faints as he cannot cope with what he was witnessing.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: While Elaine Greenawalt believes she is in private with Mr. Solomon, she threatens to kill him and his daughter if he doesn't let go of his apartment. What she doesn't realize is that a newsman captured the conversation on tape from behind the door.
* EurekaMoment: First Max doesn't understand why only certain shoes are equipped with the power. Then he has an eureka moment and rushes into the basement to check on the stitching machine.
* ExactEavesdropping: Max wakes up in the backseat of the henchmen's car at about the right time to overhear them talking about their plans.
* {{Fainting}}: When Max transform in front of a boy in the street, the latter faints as he cannot cope with what he was witnessing.
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* GoodTimesMontage: The dinner date of Max (pretending to be his father) and his mum is depicted in a montage of happy moments.
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Max's father explains that he left his family and went undercover because he feared for their lives and this was the only way he could protect them. [[FridheLogic If you think about it]], instead of going into hiding he [[ReedRichardsIsUseless could have made a fortune using the shoe switch]] and then left with his family for good.
* ItWasHereISwear: After Max kills Ludlow, he turns himself in and returns to the crime scene with two detective. But now the body is gone and the blood-stained carpet looks clean. Max is flabbergasted and the detectives believe they have been taken for a ride by a lunatic. Little did they know, Max had a MysteriousProtector.
* LimitedWardrobe: Max kept wearing his red scarf whenever he was in disguise which helps the audience to know when it was him.
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Max's father explains that he left his family and went undercover because he feared for their lives and this was the only way he could protect them. [[FridheLogic If you think about it]], instead of going into hiding he [[ReedRichardsIsUseless could have made a fortune using the shoe switch]] and then left with his family for good.
* ItWasHereISwear: After Max kills Ludlow, he turns himself in and returns to the crime scene with two detective. But now the body is gone and the blood-stained carpet looks clean. Max is flabbergasted and the detectives believe they have been taken for a ride by a lunatic. Little did they know, Max had a MysteriousProtector.
* LimitedWardrobe: Max kept wearing his red scarf whenever he was in disguise which helps the audience to know when it was him.
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* AMinorKidroduction: The movie opens with a scene showing Max as a little boy watching his father at work. The rest of the movie deals with Max in his adult life.
* MommasBoy: Max, being in his forties, still lives with his mother.
* NeverGiveTheCaptainAStraightAnswer: When Max questions his father about the stitching machine in the end, the latter doesn't answer but leads him into the basement so present him his TrophyRoom of shoes.
* OldBeggarTest: This trope builds the backstory to how the magical shoe-stitcher device became the cobbler family's heirloom. Max' father recounts the story in the beginning of the movie:
--> '''Abraham''': A long time ago, on the coldest of winter nights, a vagrant came knocking at the door of our shop. Your great-great-grandfather gave him shelter when no one else would. He fed the man, mended his shoes... In the morning, the vagrant was gone but in his place was this sticker machine.
* MommasBoy: Max, being in his forties, still lives with his mother.
* NeverGiveTheCaptainAStraightAnswer: When Max questions his father about the stitching machine in the end, the latter doesn't answer but leads him into the basement so present him his TrophyRoom of shoes.
* OldBeggarTest: This trope builds the backstory to how the magical shoe-stitcher device became the cobbler family's heirloom. Max' father recounts the story in the beginning of the movie:
--> '''Abraham''': A long time ago, on the coldest of winter nights, a vagrant came knocking at the door of our shop. Your great-great-grandfather gave him shelter when no one else would. He fed the man, mended his shoes... In the morning, the vagrant was gone but in his place was this sticker machine.
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* ScatterbrainedSenior: Max' mother obviously suffers from senile dementia. In one scene Max finds her purse in the microwave.
* SceneryCensor: There is a [[http://i.imgur.com/wcNHaBP.png frontal shot]] of the girl in the shower where her breast are covered by the shower curtains that act as GodivaHair.
* SecretIdentity: [[spoiler:The barber, who turns out to be Max' father.
* TestesTest: Max tries on a woman's heels to make sure the transormation is really happening. One hand down his pants later reveals that it is.
* ThisIsAWorkOfFiction: Disclaimer at the end of the closing credits.
* SceneryCensor: There is a [[http://i.imgur.com/wcNHaBP.png frontal shot]] of the girl in the shower where her breast are covered by the shower curtains that act as GodivaHair.
* SecretIdentity: [[spoiler:The barber, who turns out to be Max' father.
* TestesTest: Max tries on a woman's heels to make sure the transormation is really happening. One hand down his pants later reveals that it is.
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* UngratefulBastard: In one scene Max impersonates Ludlow and saves another criminal from being killed. His "kindness" is not being repaid as later said baddie kidnaps Max (disguised as Ludlow) and pities him for his poor choice.
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: The audience is not let in on Max's plan to bring down Elaine Greenawalt. And of course, everything worked out nicely.
* VanityLicensePlate: In the closing scene, Max's father rides a limousine with the license plate "2Cobble".
* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: The Jews speak Yiddish in the opening sequence, set in Max childhood.
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: The audience is not let in on Max's plan to bring down Elaine Greenawalt. And of course, everything worked out nicely.
* VanityLicensePlate: In the closing scene, Max's father rides a limousine with the license plate "2Cobble".
* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: The Jews speak Yiddish in the opening sequence, set in Max childhood.
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* MisBlamed: Mostly averted. As much of a critical punching bag as Adam Sandler is, most critics were aware the film originated with Tom [=McCarthy=]. Ironically, that it was made by a filmmaker previously known as an indie darling might have resulted in ''worse'' reviews than it would have recieved had it been a typical Sandler movie.
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* UnfortunateImplications: What does Max do in the body of a ScaryBlackMan? Skip out on a meal without paying. What does Max do in the body of a Chinese man? ''Visit Chinatown''. To say nothing of the almost rape scene described under BedTrick.
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'''The Cobbler''' is a 2014 comedy-drama written and directed by Tom [=McCarthy=] and starring Creator/AdamSandler, Melonie Diaz, Music/MethodMan, Creator/SteveBuscemi, Ellen Barkin, Dan Stevens, and Creator/DustinHoffman.
Max Simpkin (Sandler) is a lonely, schlubby cobbler in his 40s who lives with his mother while continuing to run the shoe repair business founded by his family decades ago. One day, after his electronic stitching machine breaks down, Max unearths a manual stitching device once owned by his now-absent father (Hoffman), and after repairing the shoes discovers something remarkable: when he wears shoes repaired with the device, he transforms into the shoe's owners.
Energized by his discovery, Max finds himself in a series of adventures as he tries out the lives of his customers, stages a make-believe reunion between his mother and father, and fights back against a gentrification campaign in his neighborhood led by corrupt businesswoman Elaine Greenawalt (Barkin). Eventually, he discovers he is a part of a world much bigger than he ever imagined.
The movie is notorious for having one of the most disastrous premiers in the history of the Toronto Film Festival, with critics shellacking it for its maudlin tone, oversentimentality, and various UnfortunateImplications, and a ludicrous twist ending. It ended up as a critical and commercial failure, making a mere 22/100 rating on Metacritic and bombing at the box office.
!!Tropes Associated with The Cobbler include:
* AppliedPhlebotinum: The manual shoe-stitcher, although it apparently only works its magic on shoes that are size 10 1\2.
* BrokenAesop: Somehow manages to break what would normally be a CaptainObviousAesop. Many have noticed that despite the obvious "learn things by walking in other people's shoes" message, Max doesn't treat any of the other bodies he uses as anything more than tools, and plays their personalities as broad stereotypes.
* BedTrick: A variation is just ''barely'' averted in one of the [[{{Squick}} squickier]] scenes. Max, disguised as the hot boyfriend of a girl he likes, is [[ShowerOfLove invited to join her in the shower]] and jumps at the opportunity... until he realizes he'd have to take off the his shoes to do so.
* CombatStilettos: Courtesy of a local drag queen, and later weaponized by Max.
* DisappearedDad: Max's father Abraham
* DistantPrologue: The movie starts out with an ''Film/ASeriousMan''-style Yiddish language prologue set decades before the events proper.
* GenreShift: The movie goes from somber comedy-drama to magical realism comedy, to [[spoiler: a bizarre superhero origin story of sorts]].
* MilkmanConspiracy: [[spoiler:Cobblers have secretly been using their shapeshifting powers to fight injustice for centuries, and Max is the latest addition to their ranks]].
* MisBlamed: Mostly averted. As much of a critical punching bag as Adam Sandler is, most critics were aware the film originated with Tom [=McCarthy=]. Ironically, that it was made by a filmmaker previously known as an indie darling might have resulted in ''worse'' reviews than it would have recieved had it been a typical Sandler movie.
* PowerUpFood: Eating pickles makes it easier to handle the transition from one body to another. Really.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Max's barber friend turns out to have been his father all along, driven into hiding to escape retribution from those he angered as part of the [[MilkmanConspiracy cobbler corps]]. ]]
* ScaryBlackMan: Ludlow, the casually violent gangster played by Method Man.
* TransformationTrinket: Any size 10 1\2 shoes can become this if repaired by Max's device. [[spoiler: Max's father is later revealed to have a veritable Batcave of shoes to use for fighting crime]].
* UnfortunateImplications: What does Max do in the body of a ScaryBlackMan? Skip out on a meal without paying. What does Max do in the body of a Chinese man? ''Visit Chinatown''. To say nothing of the almost rape scene described under BedTrick.
Max Simpkin (Sandler) is a lonely, schlubby cobbler in his 40s who lives with his mother while continuing to run the shoe repair business founded by his family decades ago. One day, after his electronic stitching machine breaks down, Max unearths a manual stitching device once owned by his now-absent father (Hoffman), and after repairing the shoes discovers something remarkable: when he wears shoes repaired with the device, he transforms into the shoe's owners.
Energized by his discovery, Max finds himself in a series of adventures as he tries out the lives of his customers, stages a make-believe reunion between his mother and father, and fights back against a gentrification campaign in his neighborhood led by corrupt businesswoman Elaine Greenawalt (Barkin). Eventually, he discovers he is a part of a world much bigger than he ever imagined.
The movie is notorious for having one of the most disastrous premiers in the history of the Toronto Film Festival, with critics shellacking it for its maudlin tone, oversentimentality, and various UnfortunateImplications, and a ludicrous twist ending. It ended up as a critical and commercial failure, making a mere 22/100 rating on Metacritic and bombing at the box office.
!!Tropes Associated with The Cobbler include:
* AppliedPhlebotinum: The manual shoe-stitcher, although it apparently only works its magic on shoes that are size 10 1\2.
* BrokenAesop: Somehow manages to break what would normally be a CaptainObviousAesop. Many have noticed that despite the obvious "learn things by walking in other people's shoes" message, Max doesn't treat any of the other bodies he uses as anything more than tools, and plays their personalities as broad stereotypes.
* BedTrick: A variation is just ''barely'' averted in one of the [[{{Squick}} squickier]] scenes. Max, disguised as the hot boyfriend of a girl he likes, is [[ShowerOfLove invited to join her in the shower]] and jumps at the opportunity... until he realizes he'd have to take off the his shoes to do so.
* CombatStilettos: Courtesy of a local drag queen, and later weaponized by Max.
* DisappearedDad: Max's father Abraham
* DistantPrologue: The movie starts out with an ''Film/ASeriousMan''-style Yiddish language prologue set decades before the events proper.
* GenreShift: The movie goes from somber comedy-drama to magical realism comedy, to [[spoiler: a bizarre superhero origin story of sorts]].
* MilkmanConspiracy: [[spoiler:Cobblers have secretly been using their shapeshifting powers to fight injustice for centuries, and Max is the latest addition to their ranks]].
* MisBlamed: Mostly averted. As much of a critical punching bag as Adam Sandler is, most critics were aware the film originated with Tom [=McCarthy=]. Ironically, that it was made by a filmmaker previously known as an indie darling might have resulted in ''worse'' reviews than it would have recieved had it been a typical Sandler movie.
* PowerUpFood: Eating pickles makes it easier to handle the transition from one body to another. Really.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Max's barber friend turns out to have been his father all along, driven into hiding to escape retribution from those he angered as part of the [[MilkmanConspiracy cobbler corps]]. ]]
* ScaryBlackMan: Ludlow, the casually violent gangster played by Method Man.
* TransformationTrinket: Any size 10 1\2 shoes can become this if repaired by Max's device. [[spoiler: Max's father is later revealed to have a veritable Batcave of shoes to use for fighting crime]].
* UnfortunateImplications: What does Max do in the body of a ScaryBlackMan? Skip out on a meal without paying. What does Max do in the body of a Chinese man? ''Visit Chinatown''. To say nothing of the almost rape scene described under BedTrick.
