History Film / TheCobbler

''The Cobbler'' is a 2014 comedy-drama written and directed by Tom [=McCarthy=] and starring Creator/AdamSandler, Melonie Diaz, [[Music/WuTangClan Method Man]], Creator/SteveBuscemi, Creator/EllenBarkin, Creator/DanStevens, and Creator/DustinHoffman.

* 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.

* {{Fainting}}: When Max transform in front of a boy in the street, the latter faints as he cannot cope with what he was witnessing.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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:

* ScatterbrainedSenior: Max' mother obviously suffers from senile dementia. In one scene Max finds her purse in the microwave.

* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: The Jews speak Yiddish in the opening sequence, set in Max childhood.

* MorphicResonance: Max keeps his red scarf whenever he's different character.

* SceneryCensor: There is a [[https://web.archive.org/web/20160927122554/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.

* 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.

* ShapeshifterVisualCue: Max kept wearing his red scarf whenever he is in a different character which helps the audience to know when it was him.

''The Cobbler'' is a 2014 comedy-drama written and directed by Tom [=McCarthy=] and starring Creator/AdamSandler, Melonie Diaz, [[Music/WuTangClan Method Man]], Creator/SteveBuscemi, Ellen Barkin, Creator/DanStevens, and Creator/DustinHoffman.

* 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]]. ]]