I confess that I bought this DVD because its price was just 4.99 euros. I expected the typical comedy where two people swap, fantasy hilarious situations and so on. But I was wrong. I watched this with my wife (we are near sixty) and we laughed and cried and discussed and then discussed again. This movie is great! The script was brilliant. Acting was more than adequate and directing and cinematography were correct.I suggest it to everybody, young and old people. 8/10

Greetings from Lithuania."In Her Shoes" (2005) is a very sweet picture. Acting was very strong, especially by Toni Collette and Shirley MacLaine. Cameron Diaz was OK, but not as memorable as her partners. This i a very well directed, written comedy drama. At running time 2 hours is never drags and is superbly paced. There a some touching moments, but it's not a tear jerker type of a picture. Although it's not the most original story and it's a bit predictable at the moments, but superb acting and very solid craftsmanship makes this movie a surely must see for those who are tired from romantic but uninvolving flicks. Overall, "In Her Shoes" is a very well made sweet movie. It's not a romantic comedy, it has some serious ideas about life, search for yourself and power of family love. Very good movie, i'm glad i gave this movie a chance.

There is a scene early on in In Her Shoes where sisters Maggie and Rose offer their respective philosophies on life with the aid of a pair of shoes. The promiscuous, immature Maggie (Cameron Diaz) vaunts the life of 'scandal and passion' inbuilt into sexy high heels. Well-ordered Rose (Toni Collette), on the other hand, finds comfort in their steadfastness: 'Shoes always fit'. The scene is fairly reductive of its characters- one of the pitfalls of the 'chick-flick'- but can be forgiven for its placement at the beginning of the film. It sketches Maggie and Rose in broad strokes, but thankfully the nuanced performances of Diaz and Collette develop satisfyingly complex characters as the film progresses.Maggie leeches off of her loved ones, while, conversely, Rose's practise of helping her sister has grown blunt and forceful with years of disappointment. In such crossfire of over-reliance and overbearingness, the sisters inevitably come to a crossroads, and spend the middle portion of the film apart. Rose learns to relinquish responsibility in work and in romance, while Maggie learns to cope with it at the Florida retirement community of the sisters' estranged grandmother (a splendid Shirley Maclaine).Under the direction of Curtis Hanson, the film matures with its protagonists. The initial relationship of the hot mess and her stuffy sister sidesteps cliché and implausibility by layering the characters with likenesses, not least in their unfurling vulnerabilities. Hanson's style of simple, unfussy storytelling and concern for characters saves the film from the potentially mawkish moments of Jennifer Weiner's source novel. Maggie's dyslexia and the sisters' contrasting responses to their family history of mental illness smacks of crude characterization- the former is linked to Maggie's immaturity, while the latter reinforces the sisters' dissimilarity- but Hanson handles this material with a delicate touch. The trio of Hanson, Diaz and Collette underplay these scenes, and the result is quietly affecting.With its warm depiction of the turbulence of sisterhood, the film is occasionally funny and touching, and always entertaining. In Her Shoes doesn't tread new ground. It simply shows that the 'chick-flick' needn't be as patronizing as the label suggests. A pleasure, without the guilt.

Directed by Curtis Hanson, with a great script by Susannah Grant, "In Her Shoes" is the story of two sisters, a family secret, and an estranged grandmother. It stars Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, Shirley MacLaine, Ken Howard, Richard Burgi, Mark Feuerstein, Norman Lloyd, Francine Beers, and Jerry Adler.The Feller sisters, Maggie and Rose, couldn't be more different. Maggie (Diaz) is a gorgeous, leggy blond who sleeps around, takes money from guys, and steals. Rose (Collette) is the frumpy brain, an attorney involved with a partner at the firm. Her big indulgence is incredible shoes, which she purchases when she needs to give herself a lift. When they were children, their mother died in a car accident, and their father (Howard) remarried.After a disastrous stay with Rose, Maggie, unwelcome by Rose and her stepmother, decides to move to New York to pursue a career as an actress, not letting her dyslexia and near illiteracy stand in her way. Then she finds dozens of cards from a grandmother (MacLaine) she never knew in Florida and decides to go there instead.This is a beautiful story of reconnection and learning who you are through different kinds of love - sisterly, grandmotherly, man-woman, as each sister takes a road that will lead her back to the another."In Her Shoes" is perfectly cast, from Diaz's flirtatious, vagabond Maggie, MacLaine's strong but heartbroken Ella, to Toni Collette's lonely, insecure Rose and a magnificent supporting cast, each of whom makes a lasting impression.An unforgettable, unapologetically sentimental story that'll have you reaching for Kleenex - the whole box.