In Her Shoes (DVD review)

In Her Shoes (2005) starring Toni Collette, Cameron Diaz, Shirley MacLaine. Two sisters are polar opposites, except for their shoe size. Collette plays Rose, the button-down lawyer who has her professional life together but her love life not so much. Diaz is Maggie, the ditzy party girl who gets drunk, has sex in the public bathroom, and ends up sleeping on her sister's couch. MacLaine is the long-lost grandmother who ends up bringing the two sisters back together after they have a horrible fight. It's tempting to brush this movie off as a chick flick, but it probably deserves more than that. It didn't quite work for me because the story was told in a herky-jerky fashion wherein big changes take place suddenly without explanation. And at 130 minutes, the movie is long enough to spell things out for us. Collette should get props for her acting. Grade: B