In Her Shoes 🎥 2005 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Sisters Maggie and Rose Feller are very different, raised by their father, Michael, and their stepmother Sydelle, after their mother, Caroline, died in a car accident. The eldest, Rose, an ostensibly plain and serious lawyer, is protective of Maggie despite her flaws. A free spirit, Maggie can’t hold a steady job and turns to alcohol and men for emotional and financial support. After Sydelle throws Maggie out, Rose grudgingly allows her move in with her in her Rittenhouse Square apartment in Philadelphia. Maggie struggles to get work and soon causes Rose problems, including getting her car towed. Their already difficult relationship worsens when Rose catches Maggie in bed with Jim, a man Rose has been dating.

A heartbroken and furious Rose throws her out. A few days before, while looking through her father’s desk for money, Maggie discovered a bundle of old greeting cards for her and Rose, containing cash, from their “estranged” grandmother Ella. Homeless and without job prospects, she travels to Deerfield Beach, Florida, to find Ella. Believing Maggie is on vacation, Ella invites her to stay with her. Ella confides to her close friend Ethel that Caroline was mentally ill and prior to her death, wrote a note to Ella asking her to look after her daughters. As time passes, Ella realizes Maggie has visited only to sunbathe and steal money from her.

After Maggie asks her to finance an acting career, Ella proposes to match her salary if she accepts a job with the assisted living section of the retirement community. Meanwhile, Rose quits her job and becomes a dog-walker. She begins dating Simon Stein, a colleague from the law firm. They fall in love and get engaged. Maggie is befriended by a patient, a blind retired professor of English literature, who asks her to read poetry to him. Due to her dyslexia, she struggles at first, but she improves with the professor’s guidance and emotional support.

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