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Mood:
- CleverHumorousSentimentalSincereTouching
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Plot:
- Self DiscoveryLooking for LoveParents and ChildrenSiblings RelationsDysfunctional FamilyLove and RomanceMind and SoulCouples more...
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Genres:
- ComedyDramaRomance
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary21st Century
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Place:
- FloridaPhiladelphia
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Audience:
- Girls' Night
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Praise:
- Critically Acclaimed
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Style:
- Talky
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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- Semi SeriousRealistic
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- OldiesPopAlternative
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In Her Shoes, 2005
English
USA, Germany
Profile of In Her Shoes
The mood of In Her Shoes is clever, sentimental, and sincere. The plot centers around a dysfunctional family, looking for love, and self discovery. It is a drama, comedy, and romance movie. Stylistically, In Her Shoes is talky. In approach, it is realistic. The setting is Philadelphia and Florida. In Her Shoes happens in contemporary times. The musical score is alternative, oldies, and pop. It is based on a book. In Her Shoes is known for being critically acclaimed. It is especially suggested for a girls' night. Note that it includes sexual content and profanity.
Summary of In Her Shoes
IN HER SHOES: In this screen adaptation of Jennifer Weiner's bestselling novel, Toni Collette (MURIEL'S WEDDING) is Rose Feller, an overweight, overworked, and painfully undersexed lawyer who fills an emotional void with pints of Haagen-Dazs and a closetful of expensive shoes that she never wears. Little sis Maggie (an always radiant Cameron Diaz), who is prone to public drunkenness, one-night stands, and wearing lingerie as outerwear, is as lacking in career prospects as her sister is in romantic ones. When her irresponsible behavior gets her kicked out of her father's house by her spiteful stepmother, Maggie has nowhere to crash but her elder sister's couch. But, after she ignites a series of disasters ranging from the minor to the catastrophic, Maggie is cast out by her angry older sibling, with no job, no money, and no one to take her in. She finds a stash of hidden letters in her father's desk drawer that enable her to track down her estranged grandmother (the wonderfully centered Shirley MacLaine) in a Florida retirement community, hoping to use her impressive skills of manipulation and false charm to financial benefit. While Maggie begins to adapt to life as a nubile young fish in the waters of shuffleboard and wheelchairs, Rose, up in the wintry north, quits her stifling job and begins her own personal transformation. Both women's paths to spiritual growth and self-actualization might ring false if handled by less nuanced performers and a flashier director, but here they are subtle enough to be both inspiring and realistic.
Director Curtis Hanson has proven to be a flexible artist, jumping from genre to genre with the prowess and confidence of those studio directors of Hollywood's Golden Age. With IN HER SHOES, the man behind L.A. CONFIDENTIAL and 8 MILE elevates the "chick flick" out of that pigeonhole, crafting a story of surprising depth and universal appeal.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA, Germany |
| Release date: | 24 September 2005 |
| Runtime: | 130 min |
Cast and Crew
as Maggie
as Rose
as Ella Hirsch
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USA Today
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- by: Mike Clark
TV Guide
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- by: Maitland McDonagh
Users Reviews
- 16.October.2008
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- by: bridgetgirl
- bridgetgirl rated this movie
8/10Great
- 16.October.2008
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- by: rose
- rose rated this movie7/10Good
