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Max Simkin's 'The Cobbler'
What if you could live another life in someone else’s shoes? If you could change into someone you would like to be? Would you use this advantage to help and save others? In “The Cobbler”, Max Simkin (Adam Sandler) is a sad and lonely guy who works as a cobbler in a shoe shop. Next door to Max’s shop is a barber shop owned by Jimmy (Steve Buscemi). Max lives with his mother Sarah (Lynn Cohen). They both wish they could see Max’s father again.
It was an average day for Max until Leon Ludlow (method man) comes into his store with a 10 ½ size shoe with soles needing to be fixed on them. While trying to repair them Max’s stitching machines fails, so he uses the old one. Curiosity strikes Max and he tries on Ludlow’s shoes. Max is shocked to see
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Max transforms into Abraham; his father (Dustin Hoffman) and gives his mom one more night of happiness by having dinner with her. The next morning, Max is devastated to see that his mother had passed away in her sleep.
When Max returns to work Ludlow demands for his shoes back or he’ll kill Max. Max uses his other shoes to disguise himself to follow Ludlow around different places. Ludlow ends up catching Max in the act and strangles him when he sees that Max looks exactly like himself (Max still wearing Ludlows shoes). Max zaps him with a taser that Ludlow had at his apartment.
While Ludlow is unconscious, Max (still in Ludlows shoes) takes care of some of Ludlow’s buisness disguised as a transexual woman that wears stilettos. When Max finishes with all of Ludlow’s business he goes back to Ludlow’s apartment. Ludlow attacks Max (the transexual woman wearing stilettos) and while fighting Max takes off one of the stiletto's and turned back to his normal self. Ludlow freaked out and Max accidently kicks him in the throat and ends up killing him from the stiletto. Max leaves the apartment and goes to turn himself into the police, but when the police go back to the apartment the body was gone and the blood was cleaned

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