Yapım :2005 Ülke : Amerika Tür : Drama Süre : 130 dakika IMDB Puan : 6.9/10 IMDB ID: tt0388125
Oyuncular Cameron Diaz - Maggie Feller Anson Mount - Todd Toni Collette - Rose Feller Richard Burgi - Jim Danvers Candice Azzara - Sydelle Feller Brooke Smith - Amy John Mastrangelo Sr. - Di Bruno Bros. Cheese Guy Emilio Mignucci - Di Bruno Bros. Cheese Guy Mark Feuerstein - Simon Stein Terrance Christopher Jones - Lawyer
Bilgi :The story, based on a best-selling novel of the same name by Jennifer Weiner, explores a messy time in the relationship between Maggie and Rose, two sisters with very different, but equally unsatisfying, lives with nothing in common—except their shoe size. In the opening sequence, their personalities are juxtaposed via their sex lives as Maggie has a tryst in a bathroom stall with a guy whose name she doesn't quite remember and Rose sleeps with her boss and dreams of marriage. Their evenings collide when Maggie gets drunk and Rose is called to chauffeur her home. As Rose says, having a man in her bed is unusual—bailing out her little sister, drunk or otherwise in need of help, is not.
Sisters Rose and Maggie Feller (Toni Collette and Cameron Diaz) travel a bumpy road toward true appreciation for one another
Thanks to a wickedly annoying stepmother, Maggie gets kicked out of her father's house and ends up on Rose's couch. We see the sisters in action: Rose is responsible, heading off to work as a high-powered attorney and prodding Maggie to get a job. Maggie loafs around, confident that the good looks that she's coasted on thus far will continue to provide for her. Tensions rise, and when Maggie betrays Rose by sleeping with the aforementioned boss, it provokes a short but brutal fight between the sisters.
Maggie has an innate talent for choosing the perfect shoes for any occasion
After being banished by Rose, Maggie heads to Florida to find the grandmother she never knew—until recently—she had. Upon arrival, she finds Ella (Shirley MacLaine) very much alive and living in a retirement community. MacLaine is pitch-perfect in her role as a woman harboring a secret and no small sense of guilt for her absence in Maggie and Rose's lives. She can better convey complex emotions with one piercing glance than most actresses can with a page of dialogue.
Maggie and Ella circle around each other and eventually fall into a rhythm that finds Maggie redeeming herself with a regular job and engaging the lives of her now fellow retirement community residents—all of whom provide comic relief in spades. Meanwhile, back in Philly, Rose quits her job and takes up dog walking. It's a move that begs the question: how does she pay her bills on this new salary? But the audience is willing to make the stretch as her character struggles to grapple with her bland life—pointedly typified by the scores of beautiful shoes she owns but never wears.
Shirley MacLaine turns in an excellent performance as the sisters' grandmother, Ella
A romance develops with another guy from Rose's office (now her former office), but the unresolved issues with her sister threaten to ruin the relationship when she's unable to explain the reasons for her growing angst—missing Maggie—to her suitor. She fears that if she told Simon (Mark Feuerstein) about what Maggie did to cause the falling out, he would hate her. And despite her own anger and frustration with her sister, Rose wouldn't be able to handle it if he hated Maggie. Such are the tangled emotions these sisters harbor for one another.
Ella eventually discerns that Maggie and Rose have had a falling out and does a bit of meddling in order to facilitate a reunion. Overall, the narrative takes a conventional arch with a nice and tidy resolution at the end, but the storytelling itself is full of space that is unconventional in popular filmmaking. Hanson uses music sparingly and rather than spell it all out, the script allows the audience to gradually piece together the back stories of the main characters—which includes the death of Maggie and Rose's mentally ill mother. The result is a Hollywood movie that feels real; one that engages the tear ducts and the mind.
