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Sunday, October 30, 2005 |
| In Her Shoes
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A VERY VERY good movie... loved it... Starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette and Shirley Maclaine... The story tells of two sisters who are almost totaly opposites... Rose (Collette) the elder one is a serious, hardworking lawyer and Maggie (Diaz) is a party-going, unemployed bum... The only thing that the two sisters have in common besides their last name is their shoe size... Having no place to stay Maggie crashes at Rose's place... that is until Rose returns home one day only to catch Maggie sleeping with her boyfriend Jim... Outraged, she kicks Maggie out... Having no place to... Maggie decides to go to Miami where her grandmother Ella, whom she just found out was actually still alive and has been trying to be in contact with her, lives... Meanwhile, Rose quits her job and starts a dog walking service and the guy whom she never thought of going out with before, Simon, has expressed his interest... Back in Miami... Maggie who initially just wants a place to stay now finds herself bonding with her grandmother slowly but surely and also with the other seniors (they live in a retirement center) and now works there as a nurse and begins to start a personal shopper business... Rose is now engaged to Simon and realises that Maggie is no where to be found... She silently worries about Maggie having no one to talk to because she does not want to worry her father and she does not want Simon to know anything about Maggie... Things get bad and she is now so unhappy that Simon knows something is wrong... At a party, Rose meets Jim again and finally unloads her worries on him... Simon sees them and is disappointed that she would tell Jim and not him what was wrong... He breaks off the engagement... When she got back to her place she receives a letter from Ella... who wrote letter to her without Maggie's knowledge... Shocked with the news of her grandmother being alive... she heads off to Miami... Arriving in Miami and not knowing Maggie was there... she got another shock when Maggie answers the door... Still unforgiving towards Maggie she refuses to believe Maggie has changed... but when Maggie shows her around the place she realises that she has indeed changed... Ella then talks to them about their mother and for the first time Maggie realises that their mother did not die of an accident but commited suicide... Rose realises that she just can't stay mad at Maggie... they were sisters after all and Maggie was her bestfriend... She tells Maggie about her broken engagement with Simon... Maggie decides to do something about it... Simon arrives and patches things with Rose... They go back to Philadelphia for their wedding... and everything comes together there...
The best part of the movie was really the end... but what I thought really great about the movie was that the characters growth throughout the journey of the movie... and the characters were just so different from when they first started... and the story of family, love, friendship... all that told in such a realistic, totally believable way that it really touches you... Of course a great story can only be great if fuelled by excellent performances and indeed we were given outstanding performances by Toni and Cameron... Seriously the movie just catches your heart... Everyone should definitely watch it... You might even learn something from it... Also you might want to get the book of which this movie is based on... by author Jennifer Weiner... Once again... GREAT movie... Cheers...Labels: movie |
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WanTse @ 10/30/2005 02:18:00 pm
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