Confessions of a Shopaholic

Movie Synopsis

A college grad who has a taste for retail therapy needs to get a job in New York City to fund her costs, but ends up working for a financial magazine where she has to cover up the scale of her financial debts.

Movie Review Summary

Isla Fisher is a debatable casting for the role – in some ways she comes across vulnerable, other times she comes across as funky (but not as neurotic as she was in The Wedding Crashers, thankfully). As a result you don’t know quite how to take her. Do we want her to succeed, and if so at what? Everything is a little haphazard within the film. Do we want her to succeed as a final journalist? She doesn’t like it, only does the job for the money, and her advice is questionable and only really emotional. She wants to work for a fashion magazine, but when the time comes she turns the opportunity down. She manages to overcome her shopaholic addiction but only because her demons catch up with her. She reclaims her friendship with the bride that she is bridesmaid for, but only after recovering the rather questionable bridesmaid’s dress off of a homeless person – after she opted not to take it earlier. All in all it’s a bit chalk and cheese, but there is some comedy here, and some romance, which is after all what this film is all about.

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