On the acting front, in addition to the wonderful Toni Collette, there's Cameron Diaz doing a convincing job as a spoiled brat (one hopes she's acting…), and Shirley MacLaine playing the same role she always plays these days. The screenplay is a plot-by-number production that feels like a cross between a Lifetime made-for-TV movie and an episode of The Golden Girls. Meanwhile, during her stay with Ella, Rose grows up and becomes responsible. In Maggie's absence, Rose finds a new beau (Mark Feuerstein as the token love interest) and learns to have fun. She quickly wears out her welcome (sleeping with her sister's boyfriend is not an ideal approach to foster goodwill), so she heads to Florida to meet her long-lost maternal grandmother, Ella (Shirley MacLaine). After being kicked out of her home by her wicked stepmother, Maggie moves in with Rose. Maggie is sexy, lazy, shallow, and self-centered - an unemployed party girl who ends her nights passed out on someone's couch. Rose is sweet, timid, and dedicated - a top lawyer who works long hours. Maggie (Cameron Diaz) and Rose (Toni Collette) are sisters with diametrically opposite personalities. Instead, we have a screenplay and result more in line with something to come out of Garry Marshall or Nancy Meyers' workshop. Even the director of the less edgy but nevertheless respectable 8 Mile is nowhere to be found. Confidential and Wonder Boys is missing in action. Hanson is a notoriously uneven filmmaker who is capable of reaching amazing heights and plunging to depressing depths. Artificial in both its dialogue and its construction, the film only works - on those occasions when it works - because of the sincere performance by the underrated Toni Collette. A frequently saccharine and false motion picture, In Her Shoes wants to elicit tears it never earns and tie everything together into a tidy bundle that leaves no cliché untouched. Curtis Hanson's slack follow-up to his rapper hero-worship outing, 8 Mile, is a disappointing look at sisterhood based on the chick novel by Jennifer Weiner. Do you like shoes? False sentimentality? Something that mistakes generalizations for insight? Then In Her Shoes is the film for you. Some movies are simply made for women, and heterosexual men have no hope of appreciating them, I suppose.
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