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If you want gritty realism, see an arthouse movie. Or shop in a pound store. As journalist Rebecca, Isla Fisher is silly and adorable - just like this adaptation of Sophie Kinsella's novel.
Nina Caplan, Time Out
Confessions of a Shopaholic
All she ever wanted was a little credit...
2009 · 1h 44m · PG
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
P.J. Hogan
Overview
In the glamorous world of New York City, Rebecca Bloomwood is a fun-loving girl who is really good at shopping – a little too good, perhaps. She dreams of working for her favorite fashion magazine, but can't quite get her foot in the door – until ironically, she snags a job as an advice columnist for a financial magazine published by the same company.
Director and cast
- P.J. Hogan Director
- Isla Fisher as Rebecca Bloomwood
- Hugh Dancy as Luke Brandon
- Krysten Ritter as Suze
- Joan Cusack as Jane Bloomwood
- John Goodman as Graham Bloomwood
- John Lithgow as Edgar West
- Kristin Scott Thomas as Alette Naylor
- Fred Armisen as Ryan Koenig
- Leslie Bibb as Alicia Billington
- Lynn Redgrave as Drunken Lady at Ball
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
26%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Here [Fisher] is giving it everything she's got and it's just not enough.
Ben Lyons, At the Movies
Rotten
This is a movie that is warning us against the dangers of being slaves to labels while at the same time celebrating those same designer brands.
Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies
Rotten
Isla Fisher is such a bundle of comic energy that watching her spin her wheels in the aggressively unfunny Confessions of a Shopaholic counts as cruel and unusual punishment -- for her as well as for us.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Rotten
[T]his adaptation is really just about buying the 'brand,' and--like the retailers in the film--selling America something it already had.
Christopher Orr, The New Republic
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