Thursday, November 10, 2005
AARO Movie - In Her Shoes - 22nd November, 6pm
AARO MOVIE - PRE-RELEASE EXCLUSIVE
Tuesday 22nd November
Kino MAT
Karlovo Namesti 19
Prague 2
(Enter round the corner from the Sony shop, on the street Odboru)
There will be no official pre-movie social but we have reserved space in the restaurant downstairs and will be there from 5:30pm so please come early and have a drink!
Movie starts 6pm sharp.
Please rsvp to pragmatica@terminal.cz by 15th November.
Guests will be welcome, space allowing. Please check with Jeremy for seat availability.
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In Her Shoes
Starring Cameron Diaz, Shirley Maclaine, Toni Collete and Mark Feuerstein
In this screen adaptation of Jennifer Weiner's bestselling novel, Toni Collette (MURIEL'S WEDDING) is Rose Feller, an overweight, overworked, and painfully undersexed lawyer who fills an emotional void with pints of Haagen-Dazs and a closetful of expensive shoes that she never wears. Little sis Maggie (an always radiant Cameron Diaz), who is prone to public drunkenness, one night stands, and wearing lingerie as outerwear, is as lacking in career prospects as her sister is in romantic ones. When her irresponsible behavior gets her kicked out of her father's house by her spiteful stepmother, Maggie has nowhere to crash but her elder sister's couch. But, after she ignites a series of disasters ranging from the minor to the catastrophic, Maggie is cast out by her angry older sibling, with no job, no money, and no one to take her in. She finds a stash of hidden letters in her father's desk drawer that enable to track down her estranged grandmother (the wonderfully centered Shirley MacLaine) in a Florida retirement community, hoping to use her impressive skills of manipulation and false charm to financial benefit. While Maggie begins to adapt to life as a nubile young fish in the waters of shuffleboard and wheelchairs, Rose, up in the wintry north, quits her stifling job and begins her own personal transformation. Both women's paths to spiritual growth and self-actualization might ring false if handled by less nuanced performers and a flashier director, but here they are subtle enough to be both inspiring and realistic.
Director Curtis Hanson has proven to be a flexible artist, jumping from genre to genre with the prowess and confidence of those studio directors of Hollywood's Golden Age. With IN HER SHOES, the man behind L.A. CONFIDENTIAL and 8 MILE elevates the "chick flick" out of that pigeonhole, crafting a story of surprising depth and universal appeal.
20th Century Fox
Certificate PG-13
Run-time 130 mins
www.inhershoesmovie.com
# posted by Association of Americans Resident Overseas - CZ @ 11/10/2005 
