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In Her Shoes (2005) More at IMDbPro »

Two sisters, plus a dead mother, a remarried father, and a hostile step-mother. The sisters, each in her way, have perfected the art of losing. The elder, Rose, is an attorney, responsible, lonely, with a closet full of shoes. The younger is Maggie, beautiful, selfish, and irresponsible. Her drunken behavior gets her tossed by her step-mother from her dad's house; worse behavior gets her tossed from Rose's apartment. Then, while searching in her father's desk for money to filch, Maggie finds an address; the past and the future open up to her and, with any luck, may open to her sister as well. Written by {jhailey@hotmail.com}

In Philadelphia, the irresponsible and selfish Maggie is a drunken promiscuous woman. Her sister Rose is the opposite: a responsible lawyer but very needy and has is a compulsive shopaholic buying shoes to relief her frustrations. Maggie is expelled from her father's home by her stepmother, and lodges at her sister's apartment. When Maggie has a one night stand with Rose's boyfriend, Rose sends her sister away. She finds letters and postcards hidden in her father's drawer from her missing grandmother Ella Hirsch. She believed Ella was dead but actually lives in a retirement compound in Florida so she decides to travel to meet Ella. With Ella, Maggie changes, becoming another woman and improving the relationships in her family. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The movie takes place in Philadelphia in which two sisters Maggie the younger one who is constantly getting herself in trouble and too busy being a party girl to keep a job. Even though she is pretty and vivacious, she still cant keep a boyfriend for more than one night, and then we have the complete opposite older sister name Rose. Rose is a responsible, successful lawyer and has a steady boyfriend. Even though with all of her success she still feels insecure and is a compulsive shoe buyer to satisfy her anxiety. Eventually Maggie, the youngest sister gets kicked out of her fathers house by her stepmother because of her "bad ways" and she has nowhere to go but her sisters Rose apartment. But that does not last for long, when Rose catches her boyfriend Jim in the act with Maggie. Once again Maggie is kicked out and nowhere to go. Maggie finds old letters and postcards from her grandmother, Ella, she thought was not alive. Maggie ends up in Florida to "visit" her grandmother and mooch some money, and belongings off of her. Eventually Ella realizes this, making Maggie get a job to earn her own money as an aid at a retirement home. Later on Rose begins to feel terrible and realizes that if she wants to marry the new guy in her life she needs to make up with her only sister. Written by brunettchik90@aol.com

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