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13 February 2009 (USA) moreTagline:
All she ever wanted was a little credit... morePlot:
A college grad lands a job as a financial journalist in New York City to support where she nurtures her shopping addiction and falls for a wealthy entrepreneur. full summary | full synopsisNewsDesk:
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Straight-to-DVD Movie Winds Up At No. 1 In Rental Stores (From Studio Briefing - Film News. 2 July 2009, 1:25 PM, PDT)
Isla Fisher Talks Confessions of a Shopaholic
(From MovieWeb. 29 June 2009, 8:46 AM, PDT)
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Should make Melanie Griffith proud. moreCast
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Rated PG for some mild language and thematic elements.Parents Guide:
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2.35 : 1 moreCertification:
USA:PG (certificate #44816) | Ireland:PG | UK:PG | South Korea:12 | Philippines:PG-13 (MTRCB) | Netherlands:AL | Australia:PG | New Zealand:PG | South Africa:PG | Singapore:PG | Norway:A | Sweden:Btl | Argentina:Atp | Portugal:M/12 | Hong Kong:IIA | Belgium:KT | Mexico:A | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud)Fun Stuff
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Isla Fisher is only 14 years younger then Joan Cusack who plays her mother, Joan Bloomwood. moreGoofs:
Continuity: When her friend is trying on the wedding dress. Rebecca suddenly is wearing a pair of sunglasses out of nowhere. She plays with them in her hands. The glasses switch from hand to hand and then end up on her head, then her hands... then they're gone. moreQuotes:
Denny & George Clerk: Declined.Rebecca Bloomwood: Can you try again?
Denny & George Clerk: Really Declined.
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Being a non-shopper, I can hardly call myself expert on the parsing of a shopaholic in Confessions of a Shopaholic. But this I can say: Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) is an addict of major proportions, unable to let go of the exhilaration that shopping brings, a feeling that the world is better for her purchases.
The film is a cliché from the get go, as corny as could possibly be about 25 year old writer Rebecca with the shopping affliction who eventually meets her dream man through a series of subterfuges that would make Melanie Griffith's Tess in Working Girl proud. What saves the film from my scourge, which did not spare the recent Pink Panther 2, is Isla Fisher, who plays dangerous innocence with sincerity and fresh-facedness that makes even Anne Hathaway's Devil Wears Prada role seem downright Machiavellian.
Confessions has this going for it: Although it is not a Judd Apatow comedy with some layers of sophisticated social comedy, it has moments of laughter and social conscience. Coming as it does amidst the worst recession in decades, in which shopping would be a welcome antidote to the fear of spending that exacerbates the recession, Confessions almost makes a case for credit spending; then again maybe such encouragement is not a good thing for shopaholics.