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 | |
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John Mastrangelo Sr. | ... | Di Bruno Bros. Cheese Guy |
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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) | |
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Brandon Karrer | ... | Canal House Guy |
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Jon Ingrassia | ... | Bartender |
Jason Peck | ... | Cuervo Carl |
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>
Old wounds, family secrets, screwed up relationships with perfectly logical explanations. A film that starts beautifully and then spends an inordinate amount of time meandering to finally arrive to its soft but beautiful center. Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette have wonderful moments as the star crossed sisters. Their feelings as genuine as they are, never seem to find a common ground until Shirley MacLaine makes her entrance. I must confess I was very moved by her, by her performance. Her most human and real in many, many years. She is the glue that keeps all the elements together and presents them to us with that unmistakable flair of hers for feisty truths and uncompromising tough love. I don't know quite how I feel about Curtis Hanson as a director. Personally, my favorite of his films is "Wonder Boys" and in a way "In Her Shoes" is closer to that one, without being as good, than any of his other movies. However, I'm recommending it wholeheartedly, specially to my sisters.