Where God Left His Shoes: Press

PRESS INFORMATION
For press information, please e-mail Steve Crosby at Vulcan Productions.

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Click here to download the Press Kit (Format: PDF/150 KB).

AWARDS
2008 Imagen Awards Nominee in the following categories:
BEST FILM
BEST ACTOR — John Leguizamo
BEST SUPPORING ACTRESS — Leonor Varela
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR — David Castro

Humanitis Prize - Best Sundance Feature Film
"For its unblinking look at the desperation inherent in poverty and homelessness, for its edgy portrayal of a father and stepson trying to connect and for its implicit belief that a family can be the strongest refuge in adversity."

– John Horn, Humanitas Prize Trustee

REVIEWS
Authentically heartwarming—an achievement which cannot be under-rated in a culture today which is drenched in cheap sentiment and ready saccharine. Leguizamo has never been better, conveying the optimism and simplicity of the man without rendering him stupid; his scenes with the superbly natural child actor David Castro (a veteran of five movies including Palindromes and A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints) are the film's best.

Perhaps the film's biggest accomplishment is to portray so effectively—and far more effectively than last year's The Pursuit Of Happyness—the day-today realities of homelessness.

– Mike Goodridge, Screen International

Given John Leguizamo's knockout perf, sentimentality never dares raise its head, and the improbably stacked deck from which his character is dealt gives the pic's would-be "neo-realist" premise a peculiar edge. Appealing to cynics and softies alike, "Shoes" could prove a small-scale holiday sleeper Stateside. Its approach to the material is cannily conceived: The extent to which the script deliberately brings up every hackneyed trope in the Christmas movie canon reps a sophisticated and somewhat subversive version of Hollywood's penchant for having its sad/happy endings read both ways.

– Ronnie Schieb, Daily Variety