The Christmas Shoes is a 2002 American-Canadian made-for-television drama film based on the song and the novel of the same name which was broadcast on CBS on December 1, 2002.
Years earlier, in the days leading up to Christmas, workaholic Robert sees a pair of red shoes having fallen out of a delivery truck.
When Robert's car fails to start, Tom tells him about a repair shop owned by Jack Andrews, whose wife Maggie has congestive heart failure and needs a transplant.
Robert's wife Kate takes over Maggie's volunteer job directing the local school's Christmas choir.
Nathan opens up about Maggie's story to his teacher Dalton Gregory, a neighbor of Robert's mother Ellen who consoles him.
Ellen gives Nathan her son's old Red Sox cap, then writes a note and puts it in Robert's childhood lunch box.
Dalton tells Nathan that his wife died eleven years ago, then directs him to find the cans in an alley.