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 Chapter 1 - Synopsis
In Her Shoes is the alternately hilarious and heart-rending story of two sisters with nothing in common but size 8 ½ feet. Maggie and Rose Feller are both best friends and polar opposites when it comes to values, goals and personal style.
Maggie (Cameron Diaz) is a party girl who barely graduated from high school, recycles jobs as quickly as yesterday’s newspapers and believes her biggest asset is her attractiveness to the opposite sex. Her recurring state of unemployment leaves her virtually homeless as she bounces between the sofas of her friends and relatives. With no confidence in her intellectual ability, she prizes makeup over books and has an innate talent for choosing the perfect accessories and clothes for any occasion.
Rose (Toni Collette) is a Princeton educated attorney at a top law firm in Philadelphia. Her beautifully decorated prewar apartment is her haven from the outside world. With her nose perpetually to the grindstone, she struggles constantly with her weight and never feels comfortable in the clothes she wears. Her low self esteem regarding her physical appearance has left her dating life non-existent. Rose’s one joy in life is shoes (because they always fit), but unfortunately she has few social opportunities to remove them from her closet.
After a calamitous falling out, the two sisters travel a bumpy road toward true appreciation for one another – aided along the way by the discovery of the maternal grandmother (Shirley MacLaine) they thought was dead. Through their re-connection with their grandmother, Ella, Maggie and Rose learn how to make peace with themselves and with each other.
Director Curtis Hanson’s masterful work on films such as “L.A. Confidential,” “Wonder Boys” and “8 Mile,” could leave some to consider the female-centric world of IN HER SHOES to be a departure for the filmmaker. But Hanson doesn’t see it that way. “IN HER SHOES is not that different from my other films, because all of these movies are about characters who are struggling to figure out what they’re doing with themselves and what they’re doing with their lives, characters who are yearning for human connection and family.”
Jennifer Weiner’s second novel, In Her Shoes, was published in 2002, and quickly climbed onto bestseller lists. Recalls Weiner: “Some of the questions I had when I started writing the book were: How can people who come from literally the same place, who grow up in the same house, go on the same vacations and eat the same food for dinner, wind up being totally different people with different interests, different attitudes, and different looks? What do they still share? What are the bonds that exist no matter where their lives take them?
“In families with more than one sibling, there is often the feeling of being put into a box: you’re the smart, responsible one, while you’re the screwed up one we’re going to have to keep an eye on. I find it interesting how those labels serve you and how they hold you back.”
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