MPAA Rating
In the glamorous world of New York
City, Rebecca Bloomwood is a funloving 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 hilarious and
extreme efforts to keep her past from
ruining her future.
CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC ©2009 Touchstone. Review © David Bruce
ISLA FISHER
(Rebecca Bloomwood)
 Stared in romantic
comedy Definitely,
Maybe.
 Was Vince Vaughn’s
off-kilter love interest
in the blockbuster
Wedding Crashers.
CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC ©2009 Touchstone. Review © David Bruce
HUGH DANCY
(Luke Brandon)
 Credits include The
Jane Austen Book Club,
and Evening.
 Starred in Black Hawk
Down, also by Jerry
Bruckheimer.
(L-R)
Tim Ware,
Hugh Dancy,
Isla Fisher
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(L-R)
Joan Cusack,
John Goodman,
Isla Fisher
JOAN CUSACK (Jane Bloomwood)
 Has received two Academy Award
nominations, for Working Girl and In &
Out.
 Her credits include Friends with
Money, Ice Princess, Raising Helen,
School of Rock, Arlington Road, High
Fidelity and others
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P.J. HOGAN (Director)
 He made his motion
picture directorial debut
with Muriel’s Wedding in
1994, which he also wrote.
 Directed My Best
Friend’s Wedding, starring
Julia Roberts and Cameron,
which was the highest
grossing comedy ever at
that time.
Patricia Field
and P.J. Hogan
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P.J. Hogan
JERRY BRUCKHEIMER (Producer)
 His films have earned worldwide
revenues of over $15 billion in box-office,
video and recording receipts.
 The Washington Post referred to him as
“the man with the golden gut.”
Jerry Bruckheimer
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P.J. Hogan with
Sophie Kinsella
Sophie Kinsella’s Confessions of a Shopaholic and her four
subsequent novels (Shopaholic Takes Manhattan, Shopaholic Ties
the Knot, Shopaholic and Sister and Shopaholic and Baby) have all
made best-seller lists in the U.S. and the U.K.; at one point, Kinsella
had three books on The Washington Post’s top-ten list.
CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC ©2009 Touchstone. Review © David Bruce
In the glamorous
world of New York
City, Rebecca
Bloomwood is a funloving girl who is
really good at
shopping—a little too
good, perhaps.
CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC ©2009 Touchstone. Review © David Bruce
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 a columnist for a
financial magazine
published by the same
company.
CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC ©2009 Touchstone. Review © David Bruce
As her dreams
are finally
coming true, she
goes to ever
more hilarious
and extreme
efforts to keep
her past from
ruining her
future.
(L-R center)
Wendie Malick,
Isla Fisher
CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC ©2009 Touchstone. Review © David Bruce
FUN, BIG AND UPBEAT CAMERA STYLE
“These days, a lot of movies are desaturated, but we
tried to saturate the frame with as much color as we
could.” -- Director of photography Jo Willems
(L-R)
Kristin Scott
Thomas,
Isla Fisher,
Leslie Bibb
CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC ©2009 Touchstone. Review © David Bruce
COSTUMES SET TONE
“Becky is a happy girl.
Although she has a
conflict with debt, she’s
essentially a positive
person… Isla is very
animated, funny, sexy,
pretty and young… So
the costumes for Isla as
Becky reflect those
qualities.”
-- Patricia Field, costume
designer
CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC ©2009 Touchstone. Review © David Bruce
CRUELLA DEVILLE BLACK
As Alicia Billington, Leslie
Bibb is physically the
opposite of Isla Fisher’s
Rebecca. Patricia Field
chose a lot of black and
neutral, a kind of Cruella
DeVille inspiration.
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Isla Fisher with
Jerry Bruckheimer
20% Positive Consensus voice: "A loud,
garish and very untimely romantic comedy.”
-- Thomas Rogers, Salon.com
CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC ©2009 Touchstone. Review © David Bruce
COMING TO
TERMS WITH
OBSESSIONS
We can identify
with Becky, who is
warm, loveable but
deeply flawed. As
we all are.
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It was Tammy Faye Bakker (remember her?), who
famously said, “I always say shopping is cheaper
than a psychiatrist.” Over spending can feel so
good and so bad at the same time. Why is that?
Ah, the human dilemma to which we all belong.
Here is a film that allows us to hold a mirror up,
not only to our culture, but to ourselves as well –
and laugh. Ah the healing power of story. Go.
Have a laugh. Be healed!
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RETAIL THERAPY
“A shopaholic is somebody
who believes heavily in retail
therapy. Feel bad? Go into a
store, you’re cheered up
instantly. Everybody can
understand that. When we’re
down, we’ve all used retail as
a way to cheer ourselves up.”
-- P.J. Hogan
CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC ©2009 Touchstone. Review © David Bruce
“Like so many
Americans, she was
trying to construct a
life that made sense
from things she found
in gift shops.”
--Kurt Vonnegut,
Slaughterhouse Five
CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC ©2009 Touchstone. Review © David Bruce