A fortyish cancer-stricken, emaciated Frank Crosby and his fifteen-year-old son Clay, who is the healthful, youthful image of his father, are spending an afternoon enjoying the atmosphere of Venice Beach. They enter Oddities, a store where the gypsy woman owner gives them a pair of special wingtip shoes. Later that night in the hospital where Frank lay dying, he shares with Clay his memory of a postcard image: a golf course where people are playing and are leisurely sipping tea. Frank dies and leaves behind a distraught family: Clay, his little sister Maggie, and their mother Janice. Clay wistfully goes to his father's closet and finds the wingtips from earlier in the day. Putting them on, he is transported back in time and becomes his father as a child. He discovers he can travel back and forth in time just by putting on or taking off the shoes. Clay learns a great deal about his father's early years and is eager to learn more.
Louis Gossett Jr.
as Frank Crosby / Richard
Barbara Eve Harris
as Janice
Rachael Crawford
as Celeste
Djanet Sears
as Virginia
Robert Ri'chard
as Clay Crosby
Shadia Simmons
as Maggie
Fiona Reid
as Gypsy
Dylan Provencher
as Peter
Dan Warry-Smith
as Telegram
Kevin Duhaney
as Bruce
