In my sister's shoes

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Movie
German title In my sister's shoes
Original title In Her Shoes
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2005
length 125 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
JMK 6
Rod
Director Curtis Hanson
script Susannah Grant
production Curtis Hanson,
Ridley Scott ,
Lisa Ellzey ,
Carol Fenelon
music Mark Isham
camera Terry Stacey
cut Lisa Zeno Churgin ,
Craig Kitson
occupation

In My Sister's Shoes (Original title: In Her Shoes ) is an American feature film from 2005 . The director is Curtis Hanson and the script was written by Susannah Grant based on a novel by Jennifer Weiner . The main roles are played by Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette . In Germany, almost a million viewers saw the film in cinemas.

action

Maggie Feller has to leave the house of her stepmother Sydelle and moves in with her sister Rose, who works as a lawyer. The sisters always argue, mostly because of Maggie's unsound lifestyle, but also over the shoes that Maggie often borrows from Rose. When Rose catches Maggie and Jim, her boss and lover, in bed together one day, she kicks Maggie out of the door.

Maggie goes to Florida to see her grandmother Ella Hirsch. She would like to receive $ 3,000 from her to go to New York City and start an acting career there. Instead, Ella finds her a job in a nursing home. At the same time, she promises to double the money Maggie makes with her own resources.

Meanwhile, Rose quits her job as a lawyer and works as a dog walker. She meets her former colleague Simon Stein, with whom she is meeting more and more frequently. The Gourmet Stein takes you to selected restaurants.

Maggie, who suffers from dyslexia, befriends a blind, bedridden literature professor to whom she reads. As a result, she learns to read without errors. She is deeply moved by a poem in which the friendship between two women is described. Ella tells her granddaughter Maggie about her mother who died from suicide in a car accident and who suffered from manic depression , and works to ensure that the sisters are reconciled.

After her engagement and a subsequent argument with Stein, Rose comes to Florida and makes up with Maggie. At Rose and Simon's wedding, Maggie recites another poem that moves her very much and expresses her feelings for her sister.

Reviews

The film received rather positive reviews, but some critics said the plot was not complex or cheesy.

James Berardinelli criticized the script on ReelViews , which he thought was more suitable for an episode of a sitcom like Golden Girls . He praised the portrayal of Toni Collette and Shirley MacLaine as well as the "spoiled brat" of Cameron Diaz.

"In the end, there is nothing more in my sister's shoes than a conservative women's film that uses a well-humored ensemble exclusively to give its protagonists, who initially seemed to have a life on their own two feet, regardless of the constraints of the bourgeois family, at least in the realm of possibility, reassign the duties of mothers and wives. This means that the film may speak from the hearts of a large part of the audience, but social development is going in a different direction. "

- critic.de - the film site

Nominations / Awards

Toni Collette and Shirley MacLaine were nominated for the Satellite Award in 2005. Shirley MacLaine was nominated for a 2006 Golden Globe Award . It was also the lead actress Cameron Diaz in 2006 for the Imagen Foundation Award in the category: Best Actress ( Best Actress nomination). A nomination in the same category, albeit for the AFI Awards , was also given to actress Toni Collette in 2006 .

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.

Trivia

  • The novelist Jennifer Weiner and her sister Molly and her grandmother play minor supporting roles in the film.
  • In the poems Maggie an old man reads, this is the one to Villanelle One type , which in 1976 by Elizabeth Bishop and on the other the evening come forward , Original Let Evening come , which was written by Jane Kenyon.
  • The poem Maggie reads out at the wedding at the end of the film is I carry your heart with me by EE Cummings .
  • While Rose overcomes her crisis, she runs up the famous steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art several times , which she finally conquers , as in the original Rocky . In pop culture, the "Rocky Steps" have become the symbol of those who face their challenges.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for In My Sister's Shoes . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2005 (PDF; test number: 103 478 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for In my sister's shoes . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ^ Review by James Berardinelli
  4. ↑ Lukas Foerster: In my sister's shoes. critic.de - the film page, accessed on August 25, 2013 .