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Generally favorable reviews- based on 40 Ratings

  • Starring: Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette
  • Summary: 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)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 36
  2. Negative: 1 out of 36
  1. 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.
  2. Reviewed by: Staff (Not credited)
    80
    While on the surface very much a girls' film, this ruefully honest picture has something to say to everyone.
  3. 60
    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.
  4. 30
    The movie works neither as a comedy nor as a lame melodrama -- its entertainment value is embarrassingly feeble.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 20
  2. Negative: 3 out of 20
  1. DianeMariaB.
    10
    I loved the movie and thought that Cameron Diaz was surprisingly good in it.
  2. nicka
    8
    Okay for some this might be a chick flick but what
  3. FrankO.
    7
    Plot dragged in the beginning but picked up in Florida, got emotionally hooked at the end. Definitely a "chick" flick.
  4. WayneB.
    4
    Another formulaic, paint-by-numbers Hollywood overdeveloped movie with flat, formulaic characters and numerous button-pushing scenes. The dog was the only genuine character. Expand

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