Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)

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Studio: Touchstone Pictures

Rating: PG

Release Date: Feb 13, 2009

Running Time: 104 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy, Krysten Ritter, Joan Cusack, John Goodman, John Lithgow, Kristin Scott Thomas, Fred Armisen, Leslie Bibb, Lynn Redgrave

director: P.J. Hogan

Confessions of a Shopaholic

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Confessions of a Shopaholic: Rebecca Bloomwood

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Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) - "Confessions of a Shopaholic" (2009 film-still)

(Leslie Bibb) and Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) - "Confessions of a Shopaholic" (2009)

Jane Bloomwood (Joan Cusack), Graham Bloomwood (John Goodman), and Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) - "Confessions of a Shopaholic" (2009)

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. As her dreams are finally coming true, she goes to ever more extreme efforts to keep her past from ruining her future.

Eric D. Snider, Feb 13, 2009

Review: Confessions of a Shopaholic is Bargain-Basement Awful

"A cluttered, unfocused, shamelessly derivative mishmash."

Yes, it's a bad time to release a film like Confessions of a Shopaholic, an ode to shallow consumerism whose vapid Manhattanite heroine loves racking up credit card debt and has a dangerous psychological attachment to department stores. ("A man will…