Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Theatrical Release: 10/07/2005(USA)
Release Date: 01/31/2006
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: DDS2.0/DD5.1
Run Time: 130 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
Curtis Hanson's adaptation of
Jennifer Weiner's novel
In Her Shoes stars
Toni Collette and
Cameron Diaz as a pair of very close but very different sisters. Free-wheeling irresponsible
Maggie Feller (
Diaz) gets through her life thanks to her remarkable looks and her lack of scruples. She constantly goes to her straight-laced, plain-Jane successful lawyer sister
Rose (
Collette) for financial help. The two sisters have been very close to each other in part because their troubled mother died when they were girls. Right about the same time that
Maggie discovers hidden letters that reveal she and
Rose have a grandmother,
Maggie does something to betray
Rose's trust.
Maggie sets off for Florida to find the grandmother. A failed workplace romance forces
Rose to rethink her career, a career that has been the center of her life. As
Rose tentatively begins a new relationship and
Maggie gets to know her grandmother (played by
Shirley MacLaine), the two learn a dark family secret that helps smooth the path toward reconciliation.
~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide