CONFESSIONS OF A SHOP AHOLIC

 

HEADLINE:  ** Charming Comedy **

TITLE:  CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC

Quality:  * * * *     Acceptability:  -1

SUBTITLES:  None

WARNING CODES:

Language:  LL

Violence:  V

Sex:  S

Nudity:  N

 

RATING:  PG

RELEASE:  February 13, 2009

TIME:  105 minutes

STARRING:  Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy, Krysten Ritter, Joan Cusack, John Goodman, John Lithgow, Kristin Scott Thomas, Wendie Malick, Fred Armisen, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Bibb, Robert Stanton, and Lynn Redgrave

DIRECTOR:  P. J. Hogan

PRODUCER:  Jerry Bruckheimer

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS:  Mike Stenson, Chad Oman and Ron Bozman

WRITERS:  Tracey Jackson, Tim Firth and Kayla Alpert

BASED ON THE NOVELS BY:  Sophie Kinsela

DISTRIBUTOR:  Touchstone Pictures/Walt Disney Company

 

CONTENT:  (BB, C, Pa, LL, V, S, N, AA, MM) Strong moral worldview with a redemptive premise where the conflicted heroine learns to change her ways, including one visual thank you to God and a bride walks down the aisle in a church for her wedding, with some pagan elements such as heroine is addicted to shopping and buying things on credit; five obscenities and 16 light profanities; some light comic violence includes two women shoppers struggling and fighting over an item, woman slaps man, two pratfalls, and some food accidents; no sex scenes, but some kissing, woman jokes that her rival was a former prostitute, and heroine talks to her female roommate who's lying under the covers with her fiancé; large photo on a billboard of a male model without his shirt and some female cleavage; alcohol use and two scenes with drunkenness; no smoking; and, lots of lying and heroine lies to avoid creditors.

 

GENRE:  Comedy

INTENDED AUDIENCE:  Teenagers and adults

 

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SUMMARY:  CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC stars Isla Fisher as Rebecca Bloomwood, a young journalist in Manhattan with a shopping addiction that endangers her love life and her job as a business writer. CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC is very funny throughout and it has a moral premise, despite some lying and bad behavior, but there is plenty of light foul language and an implied sexual reference.

 

IN BRIEF:

 

CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC stars Isla Fisher as Rebecca Bloomwood, a young journalist in Manhattan who can't stop shopping and using her credit cards. Rebecca accidentally gets a job writing an informal business column for a business magazine and its young editor, Luke. She writes the column under a pseudonym, because she's afraid she'll get fired if Luke finds out she can't manage her own finances. One creditor is trying to track Rebecca down. A series of white lies gets her out of trouble, but it's only a matter of time before Luke finds out. Rebecca's problem is further complicated by the fact that she and Luke are falling in love.

 

CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC has several hilarious scenes. Isla Fisher does a great job as Rebecca. You want her to succeed, despite her shopping addiction and lying to cover it up. The good news is that the truth does come out, and Rebecca changes her ways, with the help of a recovery group. There is a visual reference to God. The movie has plenty of mostly light foul language. It is implied that Rebecca's roommate is sleeping with her fiancé.