Movie Notes: The Apartment
Synopsis
Lowly office worker C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) scales the corporate ladder by loaning his apartment to womanizing executives.
Movie Notes: 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.