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In Her Shoes

EMAILPRINTTwentieth Century Fox Film Corp.

In Her Shoes reviews
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6.7 User Score:

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Based on 36 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Comedy  |  Drama

Written by: Susannah Grant
Jennifer Weiner (novel)

Directed by: Curtis Hanson

Release Date:
Theatrical: October 7, 2005
DVD: January 31, 2006

Running Time: 130 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: PG-13 for thematic material, language and some sexual content

Starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, Shirley MacLaine, Mark Feuerstein, Brooke Smith, Richard Burgi, Anson Mount, and Candice Azzara

Maggie (Diaz) and Rose Feller (Collette) are both best friends and polar opposites when it comes to values, goals and personal style. This is the alternately hilarious and heart-rending story of two sisters with nothing in common but size 8 ½ feet. (20th Century Fox)

What The Critics Said

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100

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

The 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.

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88

USA Today Mike Clark

This is the most enjoyable film of its type in recent memory.

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88

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

It's wonderfully satisfying: Collette, MacLaine and Diaz are exceptional, and the mix of humor and heartbreak is perfectly calibrated.

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88

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Starts out with the materials of an ordinary movie and becomes a rather special one.

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83

Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer

No great claims should be made for In Her Shoes. If the aim here was to show how chick lit can become just plain lit, the effort failed. But there is something to be said for froth when it's expertly whipped.

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80

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

Manipulative, but confidently so, and improbably but consistently affecting.

80

Empire Staff (Not credited)

While on the surface very much a girls' film, this ruefully honest picture has something to say to everyone.

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80

New York Magazine Ken Tucker

When superb craftsmanship, discipline, and risk-taking (toning down Diaz and MacLaine; treating Collette as a desirous leading lady) are applied to accessible, even frivolous material, the results can be deeply pleasurable. In Her Shoes isn’t a masterpiece, but it’s the best Saturday-night movie millions of people are going to go to.

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78

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

Maintains a breezy charm throughout and contains many extremely funny sequences.

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75

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

It's Hanson's astute directing that makes the film's life lessons go down painlessly, turning the smartly entertaining In Her Shoes into a comfy fit for both sexes.

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75

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

It's an earnest, contemporary drama about adults -- OK, women -- that has no use for irony or cynicism, no room for cutting-edge, clever hipness.

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75

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

A rollicking, mascara-smearing, intergenerational coed crowd-pleaser. Imagine "Sex and the City" negotiating "Terms of Endearment" with "The Golden Girls."

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75

Premiere Ryan Devlin

Simply clicks on every level. From the surprising depth of the story, to the smooth and sometimes brilliant performances, to Hanson’s clear mastery of form.

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70

The New York Times Manohla Dargis

The joy of this unassuming, generous film is that it never sells out its characters' desires or ours.

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70

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

Director Curtis Hanson has made a chick flick with substance as well as style.

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70

Variety Todd McCarthy

While the director's avid fans may be disappointed, upscalish mainstream auds, particularly women, will eat up this well-acted, emotionally focused adaptation of Jennifer Weiner's popular novel.

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70

Village Voice Laura Sinagra

The best moments belong to Shirley MacLaine, who makes the clipped script sing as Ella.

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67

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

Could it be that the director of "L.A. Confidential," "Wonder Boys," and "8 Mile" has been defeated by characters on a first-name basis with brisket, by women who, in Susannah Grant's screenplay, represent avatars of joyless workaholism and joyless sexaholism?

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63

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

A great big wad of chick-lit gum, In Her Shoes gets by on the skill of its players.

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63

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Cameron Diaz redeems her reputation somewhat in In Her Shoes, Curtis Hanson's schmaltzy, but reasonably entertaining dramedy about mismatched sisters.

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63

Boston Globe Ty Burr

Entertaining enough, but it's more pat than provocative -- this is what makes it a bona fide audience pleaser while keeping it from drawing real blood.

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60

The New Yorker Anthony Lane

Not once does this ruffled sweetness seem like Hanson’s natural terrain. "Wonder Boys" took emotional risks, daring to suggest that with age comes not wisdom but confusion and crummy robes, whereas everything in the new film is designed to slot together with an optimistic click.

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58

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

It's absolutely the classiest big-screen version of chick lit we're ever likely to see. But it still has all the lasting flavor of a Chiclet.

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50

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

The people who made this film -- particularly the ones responsible for the story and the dialogue -- should look no further when trying to understand why In Her Shoes lands with such little impact. The characters seem authentic -- until the chick-flick template distorts them.

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50

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen

Although much of the bloat can be traced to the script, via the Jennifer Weiner novel, let's not absolve director Curtis Hanson from his fat share of the blame.

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50

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

Overlong, undercooked drama.

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50

Film Threat Michael Ferraro

For you guys out there stuck with a lady-friend looking for that "Beaches" replacement, here it is.

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50

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

Emotions too often get ladled unconvincingly.

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50

LA Weekly Chuck Wilson

Diaz and Collette are believable as sisters, but their performances rarely surprise -- in a more interesting movie world, they'd have switched roles.

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50

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

A bungled mess that spends an hour creating two characters whose lives are about as believable as a successful ambush set by Wile E. Coyote for the Roadrunner.

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50

ReelViews James Berardinelli

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.

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40

Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky

The movie's a bust in myriad ways, especially because almost every scene possesses the oily feel of manipulation and condescension.

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40

The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson

The whole exercise feels hopelessly shallow and artificial. In Her Shoes is basically a double-date romantic comedy, in which not one but two women find themselves and learn to live and love again, etc. etc., and while it's well-acted on most counts, it's also as plodding as it is obvious.

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40

Washington Post Desson Thomson

There'd be nothing wrong with this if the film 'fessed up to its kitschy soul. Instead, it pretends to be the high-minded drama it's not.

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40

Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano

Ultimately, it's too self-conscious of its role in the marketplace and too hamstrung by its source material to risk being honest at the expense of being liked.

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30

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

The movie works neither as a comedy nor as a lame melodrama -- its entertainment value is embarrassingly feeble.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 6.7 (out of 10) based on 27 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Ken G gave it a3:
One of the most annoying chick flicks we've had in awhile. I'm a guy, but I enjoy well done "chick flicks" like "Ghost" and "Working girl", and others. But this was hardly well done. In the early part of movie neither Diaz nor Collette comes off as a complete person. Diaz is the irresponsible, insensitive sister. Collette is the drab, dull one (who apparently never had a "real" boyfriend before the one she gets in the film, despite the fact that she's in her 30"s, so I'm assuming there's this whole lesbian past movie isn't telling us about). Diaz learns how to be a responsible, caring grown-up, who knows what's really important, and Collette learns how to be true to herself, and have fun. Diaz goes from a somewhat interesting character, into a dull one. Collette starts of as a dull, drab one, and never becomes interesting. Throw in the fact that MacLaine is the guilt-ridden grandmother, determined to strengthen Diaz out, and you're wondering couldn't filmmakers have thrown all these clichés into one character. Still, their is nothing wrong with Collette's to good to be true boyfriend, other then the complete lack of a personality. (Did they really get engaged after about three dates. It certainly felt that way)

nick a gave it an8:
Okay for some this might be a chick flick but what’s wrong with that. Sometimes it’s nice to see a film that leaves you with a nice warm feeling at the end. Good performances all round with a nice blend of humor and melodrama.

Martine I. gave it an8:
This film thoroughly suprised me ('made do' with it on a long flight). It is all too easy to just dismiss as a 'chick flick' but this tag misses the tenderness and poignancy that comes through in the telling of this story. A stellar cast and fine acting raises it well above the norm. Possibly the finest use of an e e cummings poem you may ever come across. One for the girls undoubtedly, but secretly the boys could love this too.

Frank O. gave it a7:
Plot dragged in the beginning but picked up in Florida, got emotionally hooked at the end. Definitely a "chick" flick.

Wayne B. gave it a4:
Another formulaic, paint-by-numbers Hollywood overdeveloped movie with flat, formulaic characters and numerous button-pushing scenes. The dog was the only genuine character.

Cher S gave it a9:
Yes! Don't drink a large Pepsi, cause you won't want to miss any of this movie. It is funny, and delightful, and fresh, and amusing. The senior community will see themselves as grandma's neighbors, and the rest of us imagine us visiting there. I love the bikini at the senior's pool scene. Just open up your heart and let our a good sigh!

DWilly gave it a4:
Girls might like this, but then most women would surrender to any film that simply put the words "Someone is getting married." up on the screen. Guys, on the other hand, may leave this movie with their eyes strained from all the rolling. The women performers are very good, the men borderline terrible (its a mystery why Curtis Hanson would hire these maniquins). I wouldn't mind glossy claptrap so much except that here it wants to touch on subjects like suicide and some true evils in family politics.

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