Welcome To Movie Recall. In Today's video, we will be going through the 2014 Fantasy Comedy
film : “The Cobbler”. It's Time To Recall.
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The film opens in New York City 1903. A rabbi walks into a Cobbler’s shop to meet with a
group from the Jewish community to discuss their problems. The Cobbler is given the shoes of a man
who is causing them trouble and he takes them to his stitching machine for repair. His son
watches the repair as the Cobbler tells him the story of how they acquired the stitching machine.
His grandfather did a good deed for a vagrant and the next morning the vagrant was gone but
a stitching machine had appeared . . . Fast forward to present day, Max owns
a shoe repair shop. Outside, he watches a girl called Taryn with her boyfriend
Emiliano. The owner of the barber shop next door joins him and asks about his love life and also
asks after his mother. A girl called Carmen walks into the shop. She is trying to drum up support
from the local businesses as developers are trying to force out the local residents. He suggests that
maybe he should sell, but she inspires him with a speech about how his shop is part of what makes
the city special. She gives him a leaflet and asks him to get involved with a protest supporting an
old man called Mr Solomon who they are trying to evict from his home. After work, Max goes home
and prepares dinner for his old mother, Sarah. The following day a rude man named Leon comes to
the shop. As Max cleans his shoes, he admires Leon’s watches. He says he has many and leaves
some shoes for Max to repair - he says he’ll be back at 6pm to collect them. During the repair,
the stitching machine breaks and so he goes to the basement, uncovers an old stitching machine and
uses it to complete the repair. At the end of the day he’s waiting for Leon to collect his shoes.
He notices that they are his size 10½ - the same as him - so he tries them on.
As he looks in the mirror he sees Leon’s face staring back in his reflection. As he removes the
shoes, he is returned to normal. He tries the same thing with other shoes but nothing happens, so he
goes back to the basement and uses the old machine to stitch another pair of shoes. When he puts them
on and looks in the mirror, his appearance has changed again. He tries again and again taking
on the appearance of many others including a now dead man and a transvestite called Marsha.
The following day he returns some shoes to a news reporter called Danny Donald from the news
who leaves him with his card. Max tries out his new ability. He walks into Jimmy’s shop
and isn’t recognised. He wears the shoes of an Asian man and hangs out in ChinaTown.
He eats in an expensive restaurant, changes shoes in the bathroom and leaves without paying.
He steals the shoes from a man with a nice car and then retrieves his car from the valet.
When he arrives home that night, Sarah asks about his day. He asks her, if she could do anything she
wanted, what would it be? She says it would be to have dinner with his father once again. His father
Abraham left them some years ago. He goes to the closet and takes some of his father’s shoes.
The next day Taryn comes into the shop with Emiliano’s shoes for repair.
He uses the stitching machine and impersonates her boyfriend. He goes to a bar to pick up
girls but when he leaves with one and tells her that he lives with his mother,
hearing this the girl leaves him. Max sees Emiliano outside his apartment and slips off
his shoes quickly. As Emiliano leaves, Max rings the doorbell and Taryn lets him in.
She asks him to join her in the shower. Then He eagerly starts to take off his clothes until he
realizes that once he takes off even one shoe, he will no longer be Emiliano, so he leaves. At home
Sarah is watching a TV report hosted by Danny. It features Carmen and Mr Solomon at the protest.
The next day Max runs into Carmen in the street. She asks him again to get involved.
Later, disguised as a kid, he watches her in her office. He finishes stitching his dad’s shoes,
puts them on and looks in the mirror. That night, Sarah is all dressed up ready for dinner.
Max walks into the room disguised as Abraham and spends the evening with Sarah. He puts her to bed,
says goodbye to his father’s reflection then puts the shoes back in the wardrobe.
The following morning he discovers that his mother has passed away. At the funeral,
Jimmy tells Max that he was a good son. Leon finally returns to the shop to collect his shoes.
He is very insensitive concerning Max’s mother’s death. Max asks for the ticket which Leon has
lost. Leon demands he find his shoes before tomorrow or he’ll be reunited with his mum.
Using several pairs of shoes to disguise himself, Max follows Leon down the street. On the way Leon
threatens some men in a shop before returning to his apartment. Max waits outside and when Leon
leaves he disguises himself as Leon and knocks on the door. Leon’s girlfriend Macy answers. She is
angry with Leon as he had hit her and she says she is leaving. Once she has gone, Max searches
the apartment. He finds a bag containing guns and weapons and accidentally tasers himself.
He regains consciousness some time later but as he attempts to leave the apartment still
disguised as Leon, he meets actual Leon at the door. Leon tries to strangle him but Max
uses the taser to knock him out. Max ties him up and when Leon regains consciousness,
Max - now disguised as the kid - demands to know where the watches are. When Leon won’t tell,
Max leaves the room and returns disguised as Marsha, wearing size 10 ½ red stiletto heels.
Leon is nervous and tells Marsha where the watches are hidden. Max finds them and puts them in his
bag. Suddenly there is a knock at the door. Leon says that it is his boys and they’re all
going to pick up $50,000. Max leaves Leon tied up and goes with the boys disguised as Leon.
On the way, the boys take him to a building where a guy called RatPrick is being beaten up. They
are about to shoot him but Max makes him apologise and then tells them to let him go. The gang looks
on in disbelief. Max continues with the boys and they go to a house belonging to Mr Greenwall. She
gives him an envelope of money and tells him he’ll get the rest when the job is done. He returns to
Leon’s apartment disguised as Marsha but Leon has escaped and holds a gun to him. Leon hits
Marsha with a gun and tries to choke him to death but Marsha manages to kick off one of the shoes
and Leon reels back startled as Marsha becomes Max. They continue to struggle and Max uses
the shoe that is still on his foot to stab Leon in the neck. Leon collapses to the floor dead.
Max runs out of the apartment and goes home. The following day he wakes up and goes to the
police to report the murder. He tries to explain what happened but they don’t seem to believe him,
especially after they go to Leon’s apartment and there is no sign of the body, or blood, shoes,
money or the weapons. Despite Max’s protests the police leave. When Max returns to his shop,
the bag containing the shoes, money and the weapons is waiting for him. Jimmy comes out to see
him and asks what’s going on. Max tells him that he is going to give the money back. Jimmy warns
him that he saw this kind of erratic behaviour from his father, shortly before his disappearance.
He says that he’d got into trouble with bad people who said that they would hurt him and his mother.
Max is angry that Jimmy knew this all this time and never said anything but Jimmy says that his
father had made him promise not to. Disguised as Marsha, Max returns the money to Mrs Greenwall and
says that Leon can’t do the job. She gets one of her assistants - Brian - to knock Marsha out. He
awakens in the back of a car and overhears Brian talking to another assistant - Geoffrey - about
torching the place on Grand Street tomorrow night. They notice a smell in the car. Max has
changed into the shoes of the dead man. Brian and Geoffrey are startled by the sight of a zombie in
the back and they crash the car. Max escapes. The next day, Max is in his shop when he notices
the leaflet that Carmen had left him about Mr Solomon, the old man that is being forcibly
evicted on Grand Street. He goes to see Carmen and tells her of Mrs Greenwall’s plan to burn
the apartment. It appears that Mrs Greenwall owns all the surrounding properties except for
Mr Solomon’s. Max and Carmen visit Mr Solomon to warn him but he says that he still won’t sell even
though they plan to burn his apartment down with him inside. Max borrows his shoes and leaves to
make a deal with Mrs Greenwall - $100,000 and a bus ticket to Chicago to live with his daughter.
Mrs Greenwall agrees and says that she will send someone to escort him to Chicago. Brian
and Geoffrey arrive at Mr Solomon’s apartment and he makes them remove their shoes. Max steals them
from outside and uses the stitching machine on them. Disguised again as Leon, Max enters the
apartment building - Geoffrey spots him and follows but when he walks into Mr Solomon’s
apartment he finds Max - disguised as Brian - sat in a chair. He is confused as Brian is supposed to
be escorting Mr Solomon to Chicago. Max distracts Geoffrey and tasers him. Now disguised as
Geoffrey, Max calls Mrs Greenwall and arranges to meet her. Mrs Greenwall arrives at the apartment
building and confirms with Brian that he is still with Mr Solomon. After the call Brian is arrested
at the bus station and Mr Solomon continues on alone. Mrs Greenwall encounters Carmen leaving
the building and, confused, she goes up to the apartment. Max, disguised as Mr Solomon,
is waiting for her. He tells her that Brian was lying as he paid him off. She threatens that if
he doesn’t leave now she will burn the place down and have his daughter killed. Suddenly,
from the room behind, Danny Donald walks in with a camera crew - he filmed the whole exchange.
The next morning Taryn comes to collect Emiliano’s shoes. Carmen also arrives and asks Max how he
did it - but he doesn’t say. She asks him for dinner next friday. He agrees and she
gives him her number. Now disguised as Leon one last time, Max visits Macy and gives her Leon’s
watches to sell. When he leaves he is stopped by Ratprick who forces him into a car at gunpoint
and says it is time for payback. They tell him that he looks and smells like crap.
Suddenly the car is hit. Some time later, Max regains consciousness at Jimmy’s shop. Jimmy says
he found him and pulled him out of the car. He says that he knows everything and it was him that
got rid of Leon’s body from his apartment. He sits down, slips off his shoes and becomes Abraham.
They hug - but then Max is angry that his father never told him sooner. Abraham says that it was
too dangerous before. They go to the basement and he reveals a huge room filled with shoes belonging
to many different people. Abraham tells him that they use them to help other people and that this
is his birthright. He then says that he can’t leave through the front, looking like he does
so they have to leave through the back way where a chauffeur driven Limo is waiting for them.
Abraham proceeds to tell Max about the vagrant and how their family acquired the stitching machine
as they drive off into the city. Thanks for watching.
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