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Genres:
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Comedy /
Drama /
Romance
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Director:
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Curtis Hanson
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Actors:
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Mark Feuerstein,
Candice Azzara,
Terrance Christopher Jones,
John Mastrangelo Sr.,
Emilio Mignucci,
Kateri DeMartino,
Jon Ingrassia,
Jason Peck,
Cameron Diaz,
Anson Mount,
Toni Collette,
Richard Burgi,
Brooke Smith,
Nicole Randall Johnson,
Brandon Karrer
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Duration:
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131 min.
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Rating:
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(6.8/10)131.5
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Plot Summary:
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Two sisters, plus a dead overprotect, a remarried father, and a inhospitable route-mommy. The sisters, each in her way, have perfected the business of losing. The venerable, Rose, is an attorney, responsible, lonely, with a closet full of shoes. The younger is Maggie, beautiful, selfish, and rash. Her drunken behavior gets her tossed by her step- from her dad's house; worse behavior gets her tossed from Rose's apartment. Then, while searching in her father's desk for money to filch, Maggie finds an lecture; the one-time and the future unfolded up to her and, with any good break, may open to h... er sister as closely.
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If you have a sibling you know this movie..
I did not think I would enjoy this, I'll be honest, I was not in the mood for a chick flick with my best friend, but it was her turn to choose. What I discovered was a charming film with all the classic make you laugh / make you cry moments so skillfully done that it did not feel like a 'movie by numbers'. You saw genuine growth in the characters and you empathised with them - even Cameron Diaz - who is great at slapstick but not at drama. Try it, there is a slow build up but you'll be surprised at how engrossed you become.
A bit cheesey
This film is about 2 sisters, one loud, one quiet and how they get on. I didn't see this movie, but my wife felt it was an average film for people who like this kind of thing. Don't expect miracles, but 'nice' to watch.
In Her Shoes
Carina ChocanoA slow journey into the deepest heart of the smart-versus-pretty conundrum, Curtis Hanson's In Her Shoes explores the benighted bond between a frumpish workaholic lawyer named Rose Feller (Toni Collette) and her beautiful, reckless sex monkey of a sister, Maggie (Cameron Diaz). With nothing in common but their shoe size and low self-esteem, the sisters must break apart to come together again, redeemed by the love of a good man and a wise grandmother.
Adapted by Susannah Grant from the novel by Jennifer Weiner, In Her Shoes is a curious movie, hovering for upward of two hours between light and dark, truth and fake uplift, menace and mollycoddling. The effect is that of a storm cloud strapped into something constricting by Victoria's Secret. There's a dar...
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