El filme, protagonizado por Adam Sandler (Niños grandes 2), cuenta la historia de un hombre que se gana la vida reparando zapatos que tiene una habilidad excepcional: es capaz de meterse metafísicamente en las vidas de aquellas personas a las que ha arreglado el calzado.
Esta historia, extraída de "Las mil y una noches", muestra la amistad entre un joven ladrón, que conoce mil trucos para sobrevivir, y un zapatero pobre que tiene que trabajar duramente para salir adelante. En 1968, Richard Williams, ganador de tres Oscars, empezó a trabajar en esta película de animación cuyo título era "El ladrón de Bagdad" (The Thief and the Cobbler). Como estaba dirigida a un público adulto y no tenía diálogos, la producción tropezó con muchos escollos. Después de casi 20 años de trabajo, Williams sólo tenía veinte minutos de película. En 1990, la Warner Bros decidió financiar el proyecto.
A young Hans Christian Andersen goes in search of knowledge in the Garden of Paradise in order to make his studies easier. Each time he falls asleep, he experiences in his dreams the different characters he would later write about in fairy tales including The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, and The Emperor's New Clothes.
Cuenta la historia de un zapatero que tiene la peculiar habilidad de asumir la vida de sus clientes a través de los zapatos que repara. (FILMAFFINITY)
U.S. Marshals "Nevada" Jack McKenzie and "Sandy" Hopkins go undercover to bust a gang of stagecoach robbers in this vintage Western serial. Nevada infiltrates the gang, while Sandy works as a cobbler in town, keeping an ear open for local gossip as they try to flush out the inside man tipping off the crooks.
After losing his son in WW2, a poor cobbler has become a drunkard and laughing stock of the whole neighborhood, besetting his daughter. When his daughter falls in love with a rich young man, he tries in vain to hide his passion from the young man's family...
A poor cobbler feeds his last crust of bread to some birds that are really elves, who show their gratitude by finishing all his work while he sleeps.
The 1880s. Abandoned by his middle class parents in Stockholm, Johannes grows up in the countryside with a cobbler who regularly beats him up. Also at school he has to face regular beatings because of his Stockholm background, the only one who cares for him is a girl, Lotta, who promises to marry him one day. When he's 20 he moves to Stockholm and joins the Royal guards at the Royal palace. Quite by accident he meets Lotta again and start an affair with her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
While the humans are away, the shoes in a cobbler's workshop engage in a number of activities, including flirting, kidnapping and a gunfight.