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Shopaholic
Confessions of a Shopaholic (film) is a 2009 film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and starring.

Plot
Rebecca was used to wear clothes that her mother bought for her, they were solid and long lasting. She desired things with sparkles and those who hold only 3 months. By watching the windows of the shops she new that there is another world that awaits her.

When she is grown up she becomes a journalist and lives with her best friend in a New Yorker apartment. Spends too much money on designer clothes and accumulates a debt. She spends more than 950 on clothes in one month and then sees a green scarf for 120 dollars and instantly wants to buy it. But she lacks 20 dollars and runs down to Hot Dog waggon and asks if she can exchange a check for cash. The Hot Dog man makes fun of her and the man she is inhibiting from buying his hotdof is unnerved and gives her 20 dollars. She is very happy and grateful and tells him about the green scarf. She then goes to an interview appointment with her green scarf, but learns that the interview with Alicia who is working for a famous fashion magazine Allette has been cancelled. She tells the concierge that she bought the scarf for the interview and he offers her an opportunity to participate in other interviews with editors from another magazines of the same group. There she meets again the man who gave her the 20 $ for the scarf, Luke Brandon, the chef editor of the “Savings” magazine.

When she comes back from the interviews and learns that her own magazine is about to stop production, she suddenly realizes that she has no job and a debt to pay off for her clothes. She is desperate about her debt and the loss of her job and decides to send letters in pink umschlegen with job applications. She switches the letters for Luke, where she returns the borrowed 20 $ and her applicationvfor thefashion magazine Arlette. Luke calls her after he received the letter and asks her if she really wants to work for his magazine, she says yes. Then she suddenly realizes that she switched the letters and sent 20 $ for a scarf to Arlette. She tries to get in the office of Arlette and take her letter back. There she gets a glance at Arlette, the founder of the fashion magazine when she is hiding uder the clothes.

He is not satisfied with her work and wants her to remind him why he hired her.

She starts working for Luke, but is not very successful, he doesn't like her her articles, because they are not profoundly researched and demands at least an outline for the next article. She gets an message on her cell fon where is her outline, but instead of finishing she goes to a clothes sale. She starts a fight with a woman about a pair of designer boots during a sale.\ The debt collectors are hunting her.

She starts working for Luke, but is not very successful, he doesn't like her her articles, because they are not profoundly researched and demands at least an outline for the next article. Nevertheless she does not finish the outline for the next article and goes to a clothes sale. When waiting in the snake for the sale to begin, she gets a message from Luke who wants to know where is her outline, but instead of finishing it she runs to the starting clothes sale. Once there Rebecca starts a fight with a woman over a pair of designer boots.

Once she comes home she decides to get rid of all her superfluous clothes but then she changes her mind abd hides them in the cupbouard. When examining an expensive cashmere pullover she realizes that he is made out ouf 5% cashmere and 95% polyester. In the next moment she sits down to write a column and calls herrself “The Girl with the Green Scarf”. Luke wants to talk to her about the new article, the article is very successful. During their conversation Rebecca receives a call from Derek Smeath, a debt collector, who demands the money back from Rebecca. Luke gets the impression that Derek Smeath is a stalker and Rebecca doesn't admit that he is debt collector and that she is in financial distress.

Chef Luke Brandon from “Successful Saving” invites her to the APAI conference in Miami, they both admit to be excited. Luke's boss dislikes Rebecca. Luke discloses to her that the two of them were invited to an important ball.

When they go shopping for the ball Luke admits that he belongs to a his mother is Eleonor Sherman, a famous socialite and that he is involved in the business of his family. Rebecca tells him that his is not a good investment because he is a workaholic. Alicia appears and asks Luke to accompany her to the ball.

When Rebecca returns home she sees Derek Smeath waiting before her door. Her best friend opens one of the full cupboards and realizes that Rebecca didn't get rid of her clothes, she makes her join a Shopaholic-group. In the first meeting she explains that stores are there to enjoy and that he likes the feeling when she swipes her card and it is approved. She runs back home and picks her credit card out ouf the refrigerator, where it laid frozen in bloc of ice.

She goes together with the editor of Arlette to buy her violet ball robe. On the ball Alicia tears apart one bolero jacket and it starts to fall apart until she has to get it off. Rebecca ends up in the kitchen and the cook believing she is a waitress gives her many full plates and sends her back to serve the plates.

ending
Afterwards Luke confesses to Rebecca that Alica is not his girl-friend and that she is not Rebecca.

Derek Smeath spoils Rebecca's TV appearance by publicly accusing her of not paying back her debt and making up various excuses. Luke is disappointed and looses her job at "Successful Saving"

After the Coffee Show Luke is of the opinion that “the whole thing was a lie, now that makes sense” and that Rebecca is “the most inspiring woman, but she lived a lie and she was right with what she has written in her column, she let him down, but the girl with the green scarf never did”. Luke's boss proposes the foundation of a completely new magazine.

Rebecca comes to the conclusion about her life : “I dstroyed my carreer and I lied to the man that I love”.

Rebecca decides to make a sale of all her clothes, but when the green scarf is up for sale she feels remorse, nevertheless the sale is very successful makes it possible for her to repay her debt.

In the end they come together and Luke returns her the green scarf and confesses that he was at her sale bidding for “this desperately important scarf”. And then they kiss each other.

Release
The film had its widest release on February 13, 2009 at 2,507 theaters and grossed $15,054,000 in its opening weekind without the Presidents' Day, ranking #4 behind Taken, He's Just Not That Into You, and Friday the 13th. As of February 19, 2009 the fim grossed $18,863,842 at the domestic box office and $21,946,193 at the box office worldwide.

Reception
As of February 19,the film holds an average score of 39, based on 29 reviews on the Web Site Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics. On the Web Site Rotten Tomatoes the film holds a rating of 23%, based on 113 reviews with a consensus "This middling romantic comedy underutilizes a talented cast and delivers muddled messages on materialism and conspicuous consumption."

Todd McCarthy of Variety said, "this adaptation of the first two of Sophie Kinsella's massively popular novels strains far too hard for comedy that seldom erupts with full force and inevitably betrays a free-spending mindset that now feels gone with the wind". Concerning the performance of Isla Fisher as Rebecca Bloomwood he appreciated that "her irrepressible comic personality overcomes a number of the film's impediments".