Straight-laced Rose breaks off relations with her party girl sister, Maggie, over an indiscretion involving Rose's boyfriend. The chilly atmosphere is broken with the arrival of Ella, the grandmother neither sister knew existed.
Two sisters, plus a dead mother, a remarried father, and a hostile step-mother. The sisters, each in her way, have perfected the art of losing. The elder, Rose, is an attorney, responsible, lonely, with a closet full of shoes. The younger is Maggie, beautiful, selfish, and irresponsible. Her drunken behavior gets her tossed by her step-mother 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 address; the past and the future open up to her and, with any luck, may open to her sister as well.
Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
Jennifer Weiner (the author) and her agent appear walking behind Rose and her friend Amy in the Italian Market scene.
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Goofs
Factual errors:
In the wedding scene at the end, the band plays "Here Comes the Bride". At a Jewish wedding, this song would not be played due to the fact that Wagner, the song's composer, was a well known anti-Semite.
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Quotes
[first lines]
Maggie Feller:
Your 10-year high school reunion. Everybody wants to make a good impression and I was making mine on Ted, Tad?, whatever... See more »
"Is This Love"
(1978) Written by Bob Marley Performed by Richard Jah Ace & The Sons of Ace (as Richard Jah Ace and The Sons of Ace) Richard Jah Ace and The Sons of Ace perform courtesy of BMR Entertainment and Worldbeat Records
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