In Her Shoes

I saw this Cameron Diaz vehicle last night with a friend. Yes, it's typical chick flick schtick and yes, the emotional manipulation gets a bit much. Still, the movie works.
Toni Collette and Diaz have a wonderful chemistry as sisters. And Shirley MacLaine works her usual charm in a remarkably restrained performance as their grandmother, who the sisters had long thought had died but is actually living well in Florida.
The movie bounces easily from sad to funny, and Diaz gives a nice dramatic performance. And not every movie uses a poem from e.e. cummings as the obligatory tear-jerker moment.
But enough of the romance. The next movie on my list is Domino, the new critically-panned movie from Tony Scott. What else do you need but cool explosions and Keira Knightley, who has come a long way from her breaththrough role in Bend It Like Beckham.