i saw this film shortly after watch moonlight and valentino with elizabeth perkins and gwyneth platrow and whoopi goldberg and kathleen turner . there be a lot of similarity between the two film . they both have great cast and good acting . they both have stock character of sister who be very different and an offensive stepmother and a woman friend or confidant and an emotionally unavailable father and a dead mother and a surprise lover . both film have the character experience life change realization and both film suffer from a kind of love conquers all sentimentality . they both add a little titillation with cameron diaz in black underwear and a partial back shot of gwyneth paltrow naked . both film seem contrive and a if the writer of the work the film be base on do market research and say and ok and there a market for story about relationship between woman and so i be go to write about two sister with an offensive stepmother in other word and instead of the drama emerge from the truth of the relationship and the relationship be invent to fit the dramatic situation . it seem force and the character do not seem real and the relationship be unbelievable . the resolution of the tension between the character be simplistic with simple apology completely whisk away year of acrimony leave everyone feeling warm and fuzzy ever after . it just not real . romantic fantasy . the character in in her shoe be a little more overblown than moonlight and valentino and especially the stepmother part . sydelle feller be so evil that it be difficult to believe that the father would stay with her and or even marry her in the first place . if you like moonlight and valentino you will probably like in her shoe as well . enjoyable performance in both and in fact and the actor bring depth to their part that go way beyond the contrived sentimentality of the script .