In her shoes

Directed by Curtis Hanson and cast by Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette, I think In her shoes is a good  family movie and I was touched by it when I first watched the movie.

Actually, I watched the movie by accident.When I was still in university and one day I had nothing to do, I log on a free movie website and saw IN HER SHOES. Because I have seen Diaz's another movie There's Something About Mary and I think she's hot. So I clicked PLAY and try to watch the movie.

Two sisters, Maggie (Diaz) and Rose (Collette) have almost nothing in common; Maggie seems to live only for sex with various men and quick cash (though not a prostitute), while Rose is a straight-laced attorney. The one thing they do have in common (as implied by the title of the movie) is the same shoe size. After their unsympathetic step-mother kicks Maggie out of the house, she goes to live with older sister Rose.

On a whim, Maggie takes off for Manhattan to answer a casting call to be an MTV V.J. which she bombs because she is dyslexic. Relocating back to Philadelphia, Maggie goes job hunting (much to Rose's attempts) and lands a job as a dog washer at a prosperous business. But she ends up kidnapping one of the dogs she was supposed to look after, and this only adds to the growing tension between Maggie and Rose when she finds the dog at her place. Maggie tries on Rose's shoes without permission, she spills milk on one pair and breaks the heel of another and fixes it with gum, Maggie is caught wearing them and says that Rose's shoes have "to be free from the closet", she then slips them off her feet. Eventually, the sisters have a falling out due to Maggie's dishonesty and selfishness, culminating in her seducing Rose's boyfriend. Rose kicks Maggie out of her apartment, and they go off in different directions; Maggie flees in desperation to Delray Beach, Florida, and visits Ella (played by MacLaine), their long-lost grandmother who she hopes might give her a home and provide a source of money. Rose leaves the law firm she was working for, becomes a dog walker (after returning the dog Maggie kidnapped to the business by offering her services), and begins to date Simon (Mark Feuerstein) a former colleague whose advances she had previously rejected. After a difficult start with her grandmother, Maggie finds a place for herself helping at the retirement village where Ella lives, and with the help of a blind, bedridden former Professor of English literature, finds the courage to address the reading disorder that afflicts her. Maggie eventually starts to mature at the retirement village, placing the interests of its residents above hers. In turn, the residents (friends of Ella's) help Ella to bond with Maggie. Ella, who also has secrets in her past, decides to bring her granddaughters back together and sends Rose an airplane ticket to Miami. At first, Rose is very angry with Maggie because (Maggie) seduced her past boyfriend, but the sisters become pleased with the changes in themselves and each other and surprised to learn of these changes. Rose has improved her self esteem as a result of becoming engaged and Maggie has grown out of her selfishness as a result of the friendships and respect she has developed with Ella and her retired friends. A series of revelations about the family's history occurs, leading to the rapprochement of the sisters, who realize that they complement each other and are a part of each other, their grandmother, and their father.

The film ends with Maggie and Ella in attendance at Rose's wedding to Simon, where Maggie reads a poem fluently. Rose was surprised to hear that and touched by it. So do I. Especially when Maggie read the poem "I carry your heart, I carry it in my heart!" I was so moved.

No matter what happened between them, They are still sisters and they still love each other and need each other because they families.

I love the movie. Oneday,I'll see it again if I have time.