In The Cobbler , Adam Sandler plays Max Simkin, an unhappy man who inherits his estranged father’s shoe-repair business and uses a magical machine to literally walk in someone else’s shoes. That means dining in Harlem as a black man and strolling through Chinatown as a Chinese guy. Director and co-writer Thomas McCarthy tells The Hollywood Reporter of the RLJE and Image Entertainment title, now in limited theaters and on VOD,”I’m really proud that the movie does feel like the New York that a lot of us know, and is so quickly disappearing,”
