Cameron Diaz is always the brightest, prettiest, most popular girl in the room. She's the girl all the guys love and the women envy. She can throw down shots of tequila with the guys on the one hand and go shoe shopping with her girls on the other. So far in her career, she's played the live-wire, the over-achiever, the most elegantly dressed...the sexiest, friendliest, the most dazzling. Not so in Curtis Hanson's (the sublime "LA Confidential") "In her Shoes." Diaz's Maggie Feller is a forlorn thief and drunk and more to the point a loser. Diaz's incandescent beauty is even dulled here: she's all dolled up, yes but underneath it all she is tragically sad. I've always believed that the bond between siblings is the strongest bond in anyone's life and Maggie's bond with her older sister Rose (the terrific Toni Collette) is the backbone of this story: they hate each other, they love each other and they can't live with or without one another. Rose and Maggie have fought side-by-side on the battlefield of family deception and misunderstanding. They are comrades. Director Hanson's movies always reek of the aroma of well observed life and relationships and "In Her Shoes" is no exception to this rule. But, in this case you can also marvel at Cameron Diaz's transformation into an important and serious actress of the first order.Read full review
Yes it's a story about two sisters who don't get along one who works hard to achieve what she wants in life and the other who gets by on her looks without ever applying herself because she's what White America considers beautiful,, individual who eventually learns to grow up with the help of her grandmother played by the brilliant Shirley MacLaine. I think it's really about a family coming to terms with respecting one another because they had kind of been absenting each other's lives? It has its sad moments and I think it shows that no matter what you look like not everybody's life is perfect as we think it is? So I've never been a fan of Cameron Diaz because she's often times got a snotty attitude, I think it was a good pairing of three good actresses just don't expect a lot of out loud belly laughs but if you listen and watch I think you'll learn some lessons about life like don't take it for granted, don't walk on somebody else to get what you want which is something women do all the time.Read full review
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Being a Cameron Diaz film you expect a chic flick but with a fair bit of comedy. And this film??? Well sure it classes as a chic film but what it lacked hugely was the comedy factor. It could potentially be a good film but i found it scattered the story line too much and went on a bit too. By the end i was practically climbing the walls willing it to end. If you are feeling down and wanna put on a film i wouldnt suggest this one, it'll make you feel worse! I dont think its anything to do with the quality of the actors but it just really doesnt work. It doesnt have you clamped to your seat staring at the screen. If your a fan on Cameron Diaz films id say youll be disappointed. Stick to Something about MAry and such like. These are far better
This is a movie about two sisters who have nothing in common, yet are still best friends. Maggie is wild and spontanious and a pain in the butt. She just can't settle down and keep a job. Her sister Rose (played by Toni Collette), is the opposite. She is a successful lawyer and quite uptight. Maggie does something awful to her sister and they have a fight. After she leaves she travels to meet her long lost grandmother that they didn't know was still alive. There she straightens her life out and her sister finds herself as well.
Anyone who has a sister can probably relate to this movie to some extent. I remind myself of the cameron diaz character, except I have a job and I'm not a thief. When I was younger I used to borrow my older sisters clothes and stretch out the tops because I have always been a little more gifted than her in that area. She used to get really pissed. Also my sister is the serious one and I am the more fun sister. Cute movie.
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