IN HER SHOES
Year: 2005
USA & UK: Twentieth Century Fox
Cast: Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, Shirley MacLaine, Mark Feuerstein, Ken Howard, Candice Azzara, Francine Beers, Norman Lloyd, Jerry Adler, Brooke Smith, Richard Burgi, Anson Mount, John Mastrangelo Sr, Emilo Mignucci, Terrance Christopher Jones, Nicole Randall Johnson, Kateri Demartino, Brandon Karrer, Jon Ingrassia, Jason Peck, Mary-Pat Green, Gene Bozzi, Carlease Burke, Hamlet, Ken Howard, Eric Balfour, Andy Powers, Karen Vicks, Carol Florence, William Spangler, Maureen Torsney-Weir, Chihiro Kawamura, Kevin Scott Anthony, Salih Abdul-Qawi, Earnie Philps, Bill Polk, Jacquin Rashad Walker, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Alan Blumenfeld, Jackie Geary, Jill Saunders, Mel Alpern, Richard Jah Ace & The Sons Of Ace, Cebert Hall, Ayana Mingo, Asabi Rich, Carole Robinson, Nicola Shirley, April Stewart, Ivana Milicevic, John Draper, Len D'Errico, Ira Friedman, Bill Miller, George Randell, Mario Santrelli, Ray Sullivan, Ray Wiersema, Dorothy Kelly, Benton Jennings, Marilyn Raphael, Fran Gellatly, Joan Turner, Jeri Jordan, Dan Fitzgerald, Ruth Byler, David Shatraw, Shirley Beehner, Sophie Klein, Marie Malocco, Betty Ricciardelli, Florence Ruprecht, Mike Schmidt, Kenneth Beehner, Bob Koehler, Robert Miller, George Rosenberg, Fritz Rulli, Dale Schwant, Jay Bressner, Jack Brown, Maxine Brown, Adeline S. Bruni, Rene Godin, Sandye Menduke, Tony Russo, Maureen Solomon
Director: Curtis Hanson
Country: USA
USA & UK: 130 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for thematic material, language and some sexual content
UK Certificate: 12A contains moderate sex references
USA Release Date: 7 October 2005
UK Release Date: 11 November 2005
Synopsis
IN HER SHOES is the alternately hilarious and heart-rending story of two sisters with nothing in common but size 8 ½ feet. Maggie and Rose Feller are both best friends and polar opposites when it comes to values, goals and personal style.
Maggie (Cameron Diaz) is a party girl who barely graduated from high school, recycles jobs as quickly as yesterday's newspapers and believes her biggest asset is her attractiveness to the opposite sex. Her recurring state of unemployment leaves her virtually homeless as she bounces between the sofas of her friends and relatives. With no confidence in her intellectual ability, she prizes makeup over books and has an innate talent for choosing the perfect accessories and clothes for any occasion.
Rose (Toni Collette) is a Princeton educated attorney at a top law firm in Philadelphia. Her beautifully decorated pre-war apartment is her haven from the outside world. With her nose perpetually to the grindstone, she struggles constantly with her weight and never feels comfortable in the clothes she wears. Her low self esteem regarding her physical appearance has left her dating life non-existent. Rose's one joy in life is shoes (because they always fit), but unfortunately she has few social opportunities to remove them from her closet.
After a calamitous falling out, the two sisters travel a bumpy road toward true appreciation for one another - aided along the way by the discovery of the maternal grandmother (Shirley MacLaine) they thought was dead. Through their re-connection with their grandmother, Maggie and Rose learn how to make peace with themselves and with each other.
Directed by Academy Award winner Curtis Hanson (8 MILE, WONDER BOYS, L.A. CONFIDENTIAL) from a screenplay by Oscar nominee Susannah Grant (ERIN BROCKOVICH) based on Jennifer Weiner's second novel, In Her Shoes, which was published in 2002 and quickly climbed onto bestseller lists.