Based on Jennifer Weiner's best-selling novel, the film is excellent when portraying the lifelong disconnect between two loving sisters: Maggie (Cameron Diaz), a kleptomaniac with no fixed employment and a fondness for one-night stands, and Rose (Toni Collette), who has nothing in her life but her job in a law firm.

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