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Confessions of a Shopaholic | 
| Director: P.J. Hogan
Actors: Isla Fisher, Leslie Bibb, Hugh Dancy
Studio: Touchstone Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  118 reviews
Sales Rank: 3323
Format: AC-3, Color, Content/Copy-Protected CD, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Running Time: 104 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 786936756296
UPC: 786936756296
EAN: 0786936756296
ASIN: B001Y8DJVE
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: June 23, 2009
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Product Description
A young woman who wants to be a fashion writer finds a job writing a personal finance column , and as her column becomes successful she finds herself
After Wedding Crashers, Definitely, Maybe, and the underrated Lookout, doll-faced Australian transplant Isla Fisher was well positioned to graduate to leading lady. Unfortunately, fellow Aussie P.J. Hogan’s version of Sophie Kinsella’s British book series isn't the best showcase for her talents as the movie is even more shallow and predictable than it sounds (Hogan got his start with Muriel’s Wedding). Fisher plays Rebecca Bloomwood, a writer with more enthusiasm for accessories than articles. When her employer, a gardening magazine, goes out of business, she tries her luck at fashion bible Alette, but winds up at a dull financial rag instead (Kristin Scott Thomas has glamorous fun playing Alette). Fortunately, her understanding new editor (Hugh Dancy, Ella Enchanted) encourages Becky to develop her own breezy style. Soon, the Girl in the Green Scarf, her columnist alter-ego, is the toast of Manhattan, but the Girl fails to take the same sensible spending advice she dishes out. As her career progresses, her credit card debt increases until a rival (Leslie Bibb) helps to expose her on national television. Everyone abandons Becky, except for her frugal parents (Joan Cusack and John Goodman), until she finds a way to redeem herself. It's hard to argue with the film's message, but Confessions wants to have it both ways: to encourage women to shop until they drop while making them feel lousy about it. As with Sex and the City and The Devil Wears Prada, costume designer Patricia Field assembles an endless parade of eye-popping outfits --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 118
 So Cute! September 2, 2010
D. M. Michael (Poughkeepsie,NY)
I saw this movie when i first came ut & thought it was soooo cute but then I read the books which I LOVE LOVE LOVE & watched the movie again & still really like it but the books were so much better! (as usual) Overall though, I still love the movie!
 "A new job? Hopefully. A new man? Maybe. A new handbag? Absolutely!!" September 1, 2010
M. Hartnett (Tejas, USA)
I haven't read any of the novels associated with this movie, so this review is coming from a person who has only viewed the movie and has not read the book(s). So be nice, pwetty pwease?
"Confessions of a Shopaholic" was EXACTLY what I needed after a particular grueling 2 weeks of stress, stress, more stress, and being ill, ill, exhausted, and just... BLAH!! This movie cheered me up instantly. The lively music, the different colors and sets, and Isla's sweet, 'ditzy-ish' and fun-loving character, Bex. I'm so glad that Isla finally got her very own first REAL starring gig, BTW. She didn't disappoint me at all.
What makes this movie particularly humorous to me, is that I've worked as a retail sales representative at "Victoria's Secret" for a pretty long time ... so Isla just completely had me completely cracked up because... well... at one time I was the same-exact way. Literally. Addicted. To. Shopping. I was basically working for "Victoria's Secret" and its business partners for completely FREE. Yes. FREE. Why? Because basically, all the money that I made went right back into that company... over and over and over again repeatedly. I mean, I had a 30 percent employee discount! DUH!! What the eff else was I supposed to do?? :P
Sssooooo, let's just say things kinda' got out-of-hand, and I finally decided to put in my 2 weeks notice--which the managers and sales leaders were not very happy with at all because I was especially good at my craft.... as well as handing over my paycheck back to them, too. *snicker* They loved me because I was able to milk the customers out of all their money in their wallets, as well as the company milking my wallet out right back. Yep. Anywho.... didn't mean to give you my retail service life-history there, but I think that it definitely played a major role in why I loved this film so much.
Isla Fisher is just too cute and too funny in here. I never thought she was annoying. Plus, I've always loved the zany, off-the-wall characters she always plays. I think this movie was made for her. She reminded me a lot of 'Sarah Jessica Parker' with all her narrating, joking, accessory and shoe addictions, shopping antics, and her plain old ditziness, but also surprisingly witty self.
Now, I don't know why these duders chose the other weird "Olive Oil Look-a-Like Girl" to play her best friend, Suze. I mean, she had her funny moments in the film, but she reminded me way too much of 'Anne Hathaway's' character in the beginning of "The Devil Wears Prada." Many similarities between the two characters, IMO. Maybe they tried to mimic Anne's character and physical traits a little bit since this was another fashionista-romantic-comedy chickflick, and "The Devil Wears Prada" was such a success? Hollywood does tends to do that. Mimic what's "in" and what "banked."
Okay, I'm starting to ramble on a little bit here again, lol, but all in all I adored this movie. And again, Isla Fisher was absolutely prescious as "The Girl In The Green Scarf." The clothes, jewels, shoes, and accessories were to-die-for, of course. The colors were fun, sexy, and flirty throughout the movie (we all know that orange is the new pink, now, lol!)... and it was just like... totally girly n' stuff, yanno'? Nothing wrong with a little pointless, girly guilty pleasure popped into your DVD player every once and a while, right? Right.
So... once again, I haven't read any of the books in this series (so please don't throw stones at me too hard). This is an open and honest review from a retired retail sales representative of "Victoria's Secret Limited Brands". And just knowing all the retail side of things--it all made perfect sense to me. Oh and ppsssstt... I'm also a recovering shopaholic, as well. ;)
 I'm all for corny movies, but this was too much! August 16, 2010
Leeshie R (Ft. Lauderdale, FL)
I love, love, love the Shopaholic series, but I did NOT love the movie! I guess it was a sort of combination of Confessions of a Shopaholic and Shopaholic Takes Manhattan, but it was too loosely based on the books to have any of the appeal of the actual series. I don't even know where to start with the discrepancies. I understand that certain liberties must be taken when turning a book into a movie, but this one just fell flat.
I also thought that if I hadn't read the books, I really would have had no idea what the heck was going on in the movie. It all just seemed so loosey-goosey tied together into a giant mess. Don't get me wrong, I love Isla Fischer, and I think she could have been great as Becky Bloomwood if the movie had followed the books more closely.
I'm all for corny chick flicks, but this one just didn't do it for me. Love the books though - and I'd recommend reading those instead of wasting 2 hours of your life with this flick.
Marry to get out of debt August 2, 2010
Sakuteiki (Grants Pass, OR United States)
Confessions of a Shopaholic (Movie Tie-in Edition), Shopaholic Takes Manhattan and Shopaholic Ties the Knot are funny to read during an economic boom: young woman addicted to the temporary high of acquisition, with buyers remorse, or buyer's amnesia (I didn't remember I bought that), drowns her friends, parents and fiancee with her credit card debt, lies. The fantasy that someone else is responsible for my expenses is seductive. The price is self-respect.
Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things sobering look at compulsive accumulation. The opposite extreme, organized, sterile, clean: Nazis, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge organized dated photos of each victim The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. The medium path avoids excess in either direction, seeking balance.
Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence: Revised and Updated for the 21st Century when is enough? how prepared are you for retirement? if you spend $10,000 per year, and you plan to live 10 years in retirement, you need at least $100,000 savings BEFORE you can retire. Rebecca Bloomwood the Girl in the Green Scarf's financial advice.
The current 2008 Great Recession, like the Great Depression: movies of women wearing expensive clothes, leading glamorous lives is a tonic, allowing us to dream that someone else will take care of our bills, let us avoid taking responsibility for our own choices.
If one Prada bag makes me happy, will 100 make me 100 times happier?
Agreeable froth July 30, 2010
Jody (Northwest Ohio)
Kind of a G rated mishmash of The Devil Wears Prada and Sex And The City, Confessions of A Shopaholic is a satisfying if lightweight comedy. It's the perfect entertainment for a hot summer afternoon, requiring neither mental nor physical exertion. I'd hoped it would feature great fashions, likeable characters, a heroine who was capable of extricating herself from her own messes and that the story would be over the top enough to enjoy without having to become too involved. It delivered.
I've not read the Shopaholic books, so only have this movie to go on for story. It's fantastic (in the sense of being a fantasy) with some surreal elements--store mannequins talk--but it works. In true romantic comedy fashion, there are incredible coincidences, strokes of luck both good and bad, and Great Misunderstandings happily resolved in the end. Isla Fisher and Hugh Dancy are charming leads and the supporting cast is strong as well, with Kristin Scott Thomas having a great time as the French publisher of a fashion magazine and John Goodman and Joan Cusack playing Rebecca's fond and frugal parents.
Confessions Of A Shopaholic is definitely a chick flick probably appealing more to younger chicks. Though it comes dangerously close, Rebecca's wide-eyed naivete never becomes tedious and there's enough realism to Rebecca's scrapes to keep the movie interesting.
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