Get a retail fix with Confessions of a Shopaholic

What with the whole economic collapse happening in the US Confessions of a Shopaholic has become quite a pertinent movie as it is people like lead Rebecca Bloomwood played by Isla Fisher that are partly to blame for the sorry state that the American economy is in. Though that said the movie is hardly a tough exposé on the current financial situation but rather a light hearted rom com with the message that family and friends are more important than material objects.

By Ruth Cooper

11 Mar 2009

Get a retail fix with Confessions of a Shopaholic

Based on the book of the same name by Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a shopaholic tells the tale of Rebecca (Becky) Bloomswood an aspiring fashion journalist with a passion for pretty things, a voracious shopping appetite and consequently a huge amount of debt. After the company that she works for goes under Becky try's to bag her dream job as editor of uber glamorous fashion mag Alette. She is unfortunately beaten to the position by the elegant and leggy Alicia (Leslie Bibb) and ironically is forced to take the position of advice columnist in Successful Saving; a financial magazine. It is here that she learns many lessons about life, money and love with quite a few of them coming from her very boyishly pretty boss Luke Brandon (Hugh Dancy).

Fischer does a good job of capturing Becky's naivety and shallowness while at the same time being quite a likeable character but ultimately the movie does little to inspire, Confessions of a Shopaholic is entertaining and funny in parts but on the whole is quite fluffy and insubstantial.

Confessions of a Shopaholic opens at SA cinemas on Friday 13 March.

Genre: Comedy | Romance
Director: P.J. Hogan
Run Time: 104 mins
Starring: Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy, Krysten Ritter, Joan Cusack, John Goodman