
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 fil... (Full plot summary below)
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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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| CinerinaKarina MontgomeryIt may do for the chick lit genre what Silence of the Lambs did for the horror genre: make it OK to like it, and encourage more people to adapt these underrated works to film. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldThe movie is so well-cast, sympathetically acted and delicately directed -- and so genuinely touching and funny -- that it leaps right out of the narrow confines of the family bonding formula. |
| WaffleMovies.comWillie WaffleI absolutely loved In Her Shoes. Am I supposed to burn my Man Card, or just rip it into several pieces. |
| TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghIt's wonderfully satisfying: Collette, MacLaine and Diaz are exceptional, and the mix of humor and heartbreak is perfectly calibrated. |
| Arizona Daily StarPhil VillarrealWorking from the Jennifer Weiner novel, Hanson rips through the material to tell a human story that resonates to the soul. |
| The Film YapNick RogersCurtis Hanson and Susannah Grant aren't afraid to let the material's scarred-over wounds open wide, so it's not shameful when they ask tear ducts to do the same thing |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyIn the studio era, this well-made but utterly conventional chic flick would have been labeled a woman's pic or weeper and assigned to Cukor, Goulding, and Rapper but not Sirk |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertStarts out with the materials of an ordinary movie and becomes a rather special one. |
| USA TodayMike ClarkThis is the most enjoyable film of its type in recent memory. |
| Reel Film ReviewsDavid Nusair...comes off as an honest and believable piece of work... |