While there are great heels and a couple of love interests in the mix, this is about as far from Sex & The City as you can get. But while it takes a total break in their relationship to inspire each to sort out her life, it also becomes clear that neither feels complete without the other. Two women raised by a bipolar mother, one grows up repressed and sufficiently stressed to italicise an entire encyclopaedia, while the other can’t commit to a job, a relationship or even to overcoming her dyslexia enough to learn to read. Then she gets really angry.Īn unusual film that treats sisterhood as seriously as brotherhood, In Her Shoes is not another chick-flick. ***What puts them at odds? ***Rose, the older sister, is strait-laced and a little resentful of her free-wheeling younger sister Maggie even before the latter steals her precious shoes and sleeps with her boyfriend. The Siblings:** **Rose (Toni Collette) and Maggie (Cameron Diaz) And it’s really important to remember here that they’re step-siblings, not blood relations, otherwise the whole plot wherein Kathryn offers to sleep with Sebastian if he wins their bet goes from rather discomfiting to unbearably gross. One would be tempted to suggest that this pair deserve each other save for Sebastian’s redemption when he falls for the saintly (at least in comparison) Annette (Reese Witherspoon). Their precocious offspring are so thoroughly corrupt, cynical and amoral that their progenitors must be something along the lines of Hannibal Lecter or there’s no explanation. We never meet the parents of these step-siblings, so we only speculate when we say that they must be awful, awful human beings. What puts them at odds?** **Sebastian falls in love and develops a conscience – something that Kathryn cannot forgive. The Siblings:** **Step-siblings Kathryn Merteuil (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Sebastian Valmont (Ryan Phillippe) So begins a new and more understanding era in their relationship – which lasts for at least the next few minutes. But in Adaptation, Charlie overcomes his professional jealousy and utter astonishment at his brother’s overnight success when the pair are threatened by a homicidal author in a Florida swamp and Donald helps his brother escape. Generally, when one succeeds onscreen the other comes under unbearable pressure to measure up, and the result is that they crumple into a small heap of failure and addiction to something-or-other. There are undoubtedly cases in life where a sibling’s example has spurred someone on to greater heights of success, but there are very few in movies. What puts them at odds?** **Serious, neurotic screenwriter Charlie is attempting the difficult job of adapting a novel called The Orchid Thief when his more outgoing brother Donald achieves success with a dumb action movie. The Siblings:** **Charlie (Nicolas Cage) and Donald Kaufman (Nicolas Cage) The result is an immensely creepy chiller with a multi-layered battle between the two leads. Of course, the on-screen rivalry nicely reflected the stars’ well-publicised real-life antipathy, with reports that Crawford wore weight belts for scenes where Davis had to drag her along and that Davis was a little over-enthusiastic when acting the scene where Jane beats Blanche. But what if you were left helpless and in your sister’s tender hands, knowing that she doesn’t like you very much? What if, in fact, she was losing her mind and developing increasingly violent tendencies? That’s the dilemma featuring Joan Crawford’s Blanche in this classic slice of Grand Guignol. But when the latter’s career, and freedom, were ended by a tragic accident, Jane becomes her sister’s keeper.įamilies take care of one another, and that’s generally a good thing. What puts them at odds?** **‘Baby’ Jane was a child star, but later in life found herself overshadowed by the more talented Blanche. The Siblings:** **‘Baby’ Jane Hudson (Bette Davis) and Blanche Hudson (Joan Crawford)
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