In Her Shoes (2005)

Strait-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.

Director:

Curtis Hanson

Writers:

Jennifer Weiner (based on the novel by), Susannah Grant (screenplay)

Stars:

Toni Collette, Cameron Diaz, Shirley MacLaine

Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 6 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Cameron Diaz	...	Maggie
Anson Mount	...	Todd
Toni Collette	...	Rose
Richard Burgi	...	Jim Danvers
Candice Azzara	...	Sydelle Feller
Brooke Smith	...	Amy
John Mastrangelo Sr.	...	Di Bruno Bros. Cheese Guy
Emilio Mignucci	...	Di Bruno Bros. Cheese Guy (as Emilo Mignucci)
Mark Feuerstein	...	Simon Stein
Terrance Christopher Jones	...	Lawyer
Nicole Randall Johnson	...	Rose's Assistant
Kateri DeMartino	...	Ferocious Shopper (as Kateri Demartino)
Brandon Karrer	...	Canal House Guy
Jon Ingrassia	...	Bartender
Jason Peck	...	Cuervo Carl

Storyline

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.

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Plot Keywords:

blonde | deception | money | party | shoes | 

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Taglines:

Friends. Rivals. Sisters.

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for thematic material, language and some sexual content

Details

Official Sites:

20th Century Fox [France] Twentieth Century Fox [United States]

Country:

USA Germany UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

7 October 2005 (USA)

Also Known As:

En sus zapatos

Filming Locations:

1436 South St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$10,017,575, 9 October 2005, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$32,880,591, 29 January 2006

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$83,073,883

Company Credits

Production Co:

Fox 2000 Pictures,Scott Free Productions,Deuce Three Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

130 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The episode Ella and her friends watch of Sex and the City (1998-2004) is "Valley of the Twenty-Something Guys." Interesting to note, three of the actors in this film appeared in other "Sex and the City" episodes: Mark Feuerstein in "They Shoot Single People, Don't They?," Francine Beers in "The Good Fight," and Marcia Jean Kurtz in "Oh Come All Ye Faithful."

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Goofs

When Maggie is standing in the road when Rose is leaving you can clearly see a car coming up close behind her. In the next scene it gets closer. There are no roads that lead off in the other direction, but she continues to stand there and the car never approaches or goes around her, and in the next scene the car is no longer there.

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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...

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Connections

Features The Seven Year Itch (1955)

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Soundtracks

The Best of Everything
(1959)
Written by Sammy Cahn and Alfred Newman
Produced by Chris Boardman

User Reviews

Enjoyable film

Enjoyable but slightly flawed, In Her Shoes is definitely deeper than a chick-flick in the handling of the characters. Toni Collette is excellent as usual, as well as Shirley MacLaine, yet I couldn't help thinking while watching that I should read the book it was based on and get a deeper look at these people and their lives. I felt the film could have gone into more detail and I expected it to be longer, as so many plot developments felt somewhat simplified to fit them all in to a 2-hour running time. That's my biggest criticism of the film, but it was enjoyable in general and I had a wonderful time watching. A few other things I enjoyed: the Rocky reference (my favorite), and the opening sequence during the credits. I have to credit this last one to both screenwriter and director for this incredible opening, which in completely visual terms sets up the film's themes. The titles are presented in cuts between the two sisters, highlighting both their conflict and their connection to one another. Generally, it has a nice balance between dead-seriousness and light drama, but I wish there was more of it to comment on.