In Her Shoes

*Republished to show all of you goddamned spammers who's boss.*

Curtis Hanson has this new film out about how the most beautiful woman can be self-conscious and how the most self-conscious woman can be beautiful. In Her Shoes is a look into the lives of sisters Maggie and Rose and how their sisterly bond is strong enough to overcome everything.

And everything is what they show you. For crying out loud, the movie is only 2 hours and 10 minutes long, but it feels like 3. Everything in the story is pertinent, but it's pretty drawn out.

That's not to say that it's a bad movie- it's actually pretty good for a chick flick. Chick flick movies today are difficult to make anyway- you have the "best friends chick flick" (such as The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants), the "mother-daughter chick flick" (like Freaky Friday), and the ever popular "flashback chick flick" (like The Devine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood or Fried Green Tomatoes). Overall, Hanson did a pretty good job with the "sister chick flick", showing just how loyal they were to each other even after an act of betrayal drove them apart.

It's worth a watch- even if it's just for the small names that give it a little extra bonus- you'll see Eric Balfour (aka Gabe from Six Feet Under) and Brooke Smith (aka Catherine Martin from The Silence of the Lambs).