Movie Notes: The Holiday

June 30th, 2007

The Holiday

If you can’t say anything nice it’s better not to say anything at all. But, I’ll still blog. Let me preface this largely annoyed review by saying this movie wasn’t for me.

I’m not above romantic comedies; I enjoyed: Thirteen Going On Thirty, Music and Lyrics, and the British varieties of Notting Hill, About A Boy, and Love Actually. I’d even recommend Sweet Home Alabama or that other Reese Whitherspoon flick where she was a ghost in Mark Ruffalo’s North Beach apartment (although contrived, it at least had me wondering what would happen next).

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Movie Notes: In Her Shoes

June 25th, 2007

In Her Shoes

It took me a while to get into In Her Shoes because I assumed it was a romantic comedy. What humor it has is on the dejected side. But it has a confident stride as a drama / chick flick.

Bookish workaholic Rose Feller (Toni Collette), unlucky in love and constantly feeling frumpy, has a sexy yet irresponsible sister, Maggie (Cameron Diaz) who crashes at Rose’s apartment and screws up everything (literally, the boyfriend). Booted from Rose’s apartment, Maggie moves in with her disenfranchised grandmother Ella (Shirley MacLaine) at a retirement community.

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