History Literature / InHerShoes

* DeadpanSnarker: Rose, Rose's best friend Amy, and Sydelle, the EvilStepmother.

* EvilStepmother: Sydelle.

** Rose herself does this to her father when she finds out about the existence of Ella, which her father kept from her and Maggie.

* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Rose is the former, Maggie is the latter.

* TheBrainlessBeauty: Maggie

* DawsonCasting / PlayingGertrude: Cameron Diaz, playing the younger sister, is actually older than Toni Collete.

* ShoutOut: When Rose sees Ella dancing with Lewis, she asks, "So who's FredAstaire?"
** Maggie comes back from work to find Ella, Lewis and Mrs. Leftkowitz watching ''SexAndTheCity''.

!!Tropes this film has examples of:

** Rose runs up the same stairs (with her dogs) that {{Rocky}} does.

* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide]]: [[spoiler: Caroline. Ella thought she was the only one who knew, but it turns out Rose had figured it out.]]

** Maggie comes back from work to find Ella, Lewis and Mrs. Leftkowitz watching ''SexAndTheCity''.

* IJustLoveSayingTheWord: Rose is happily telling Amy about her life, consisting of [[ItMakesSenseInContext walking the dogs]], running errands, and cooking "for my boyfriend". Amy reminds Rose of Simon's name, and Rose admits she loves saying "my boyfriend", and is going to do it as often as possible.

* DeadpanSnarker: Rose, Rose's best friend, and Sydelle, the EvilStepmother.

* ShoutOut: When Rose sees Ella dancing with Lewis, she asks, "So who's FredAstaire?"

* MissingMom: As well as missing grandmother.

* MissingMom
* {{Woobie}}: Rose and Maggie. Mother with Bipolar Disorder, parents with a hard marriage, Mother commits suicide which [[BreakTheCutieRose knew since age 8]], [[WhatTheHellHero father cut their grandmother from contacting them]], Sydelle goes out of her way to make Rose feel [[KickTheDog fat and ugly while making Maggie feel like she'll ever succeed in life]]. Give these two some hugs!

* HollywoodHomely: Rose, played by Toni Collette.
** To be fair, she's never implied to be unattractive, and they do quite a bit to play down her natural looks (the actress gained a little weight, dyed her hair a darker color that washed her out, unimpressive makeup and dress, etc). It's more that in comparison to Maggie that she's less of a head-turner, and that's in part because Maggie has learned to court attention via her looks. She's involved in two different relationships over the course of the film, and both of them are with attractive men, the latter outright admitting he was smitten with her from the start.

* Woobie: Rose and Maggie. Mother with Bipolar Disorder, parents with a hard marriage, Mother commits suicide which [[BreakTheCutieRose knew since age 8]], [[WhatTheHellHero father cut their grandmother from contacting them]], Sydelle goes out of her way to make Rose feel [[KickTheDog fat and ugly while making Maggie feel like she'll ever succeed in life]]. Give these two some hugs!

* MissingMom

Billed as a story about two sisters whose only common trait is their shoe size, this story is basically one long [[TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry Sisterly Rivalry]] between Rose and Maggie Feller. Along the way, they learn [[AnAesop valuable life lessons]] about family, grief, betrayal, love, and self-worth.

* LIsForDyslexia

* AdaptationDecay: Most of Maggie's journey from Philadelphia to Florida from the book disappears, with much of her coming-of-age story getting condensed and/or relocated.

* TheEvilStepmother: Sydelle.