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The Christmas Shoes
The Christmas Shoes
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The Christmas Shoes is a Christmas-themed story, song, book, film, and play.

Originally an Internet-forwarded legend, it was forwarded to a member of the Christian vocal group NewSong in 1996. He worked on the song for four years and eventually released it as a bonus track in 2000.

Movie Plot

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A young boy named Nathan tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for his mother, who is dying because of cancer, while a lawyer tries to deal with his divorce. Two separate stories mesh - in the first, a young music teacher, Maggie Andrews, begins dying of a heart condition and her son Nathan tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for her before she dies. In the second, lawyer Robert Layton and his wife Kate are slowly drifting apart and the matter comes to a head during Christmas when Kate takes over for Maggie for the school choir and declines a job in Robert's firm. When Robert's mother passes away, he begins to reconsider things and his and Nathan's paths cross on Christmas Eve as Nathan tries to raise the money for the shoes and Robert tries to get a present for his daughter.

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 '''''The Christmas Shoes''''' is a [[Christmas]]-themed story, song, book, film, and play.
-Originally an Internet-forwarded legend, it was forwarded to a member of the Christian vocal group [[NewSong]] in 1996. He worked on the song for four years and eventually released it as a bonus track in 2000. The song was for some reason very popular, even though it was a terrible song, both lyrically and musically.  The song has been called "emotional pornography" and a simplistic way to play on the listeners emotions.  Unable to come up with any original ideas, the next year it inspired a novel by [[Donna Van Liere]], and in 2002 it was made into a CBS [[TV movie]] starring [[Rob Lowe]].  Why a child would want to buy his dying mother shoes, of all things, has never been explained.  Perhaps because "shoes" is easier to rhyme with than "necklace" or "charm bracelet".
+Originally an Internet-forwarded legend, it was forwarded to a member of the Christian vocal group [[NewSong]] in 1996. He worked on the song for four years and eventually released it as a bonus track in 2000.
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