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Confessions of a Shopaholic

Confessions of a Shopaholic is a screen adaptation loosely based on the best-selling novels on the topic by Sophie Kinsella. Amy Adams clone Isla Fisher is captivating as Rebecca Bloomwood, a New Yorker damaged as a child from being dressed by her mother (Joan Cusack) in sensible shoes as well as other dowdy but equally terminally durable apparel. At twenty five she subconsciously lashes out through the miracle of credit cards to become the ultimate power shopper but in this timely scenario everything (including her career) crashes for her just as it’s time to pay up and she’s left scrambling for employment while staying one step ahead of the collection agency. Naturally her ultimate goal is to work for a high fashion magazine but can only land a gig with one of its subsidiaries – a financial rag headed by Luke Brandon (the dreamy Hugh Dancy). There her jones for consumerism provides unique analogies to explain high finance to the common person which makes her the toast of that publication. Her uncontrollable addictive personality however gets her wishing for a refund. Fisher gets big name support from John Goodman, John Lithgow, Kristin Scott Thomas, Julie Hagerty and even Lynn Redgrave in a cameo, probably delighted just to be part of a Disney film. And why not? Lately they’ve done marvellously entertaining films and this is among them. Confessions of a Shopaholic won’t take long to get you hooked.

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