IN HER SHOES (2005) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Curtis Hanson
Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, Shirley MacLaine,
Mark Feuerstein, Ken Howard, Candice Azzara,
Brooke Smith, Francine Beers, Norman Lloyd
Collette and Diaz play sisters who clash over everything. MacLaine plays the grandmother who got out of their lives when they were kids. They all end up in a retirement community in Florida, where a gaggle of geriatric busybodies see to in that everything works out the way it should. A chick flick, for sure, the kind of movie where the responsible older sister starts to move toward happiness and fulfillment when she edges away from a successful career and starts dating an ex-colleague - a man with a successful career. The players make it worth looking at. Diaz and Collette are typecast perfectly as polar opposites who drive each other crazy but aren't complete without each other, while MacLaine projects indestructible star power as a woman who's been around the block a few hundred times and can cut through bullshit with a glance. 90-year-old Norman Lloyd does a fine bit as a blind professor who helps Diaz with her reading.
Curtis Hanson
(1945-2016)
