| Confessions of a Shopaholic [DVD] [2009] | ![Confessions of a Shopaholic [DVD] [2009]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kEQKF7F4L._SL160_.jpg) | Director: P.J. Hogan
Actors: Isla Fisher, Krysten Ritter, Hugh Dancy, Joan Cusack, John Goodman
Studio: Walt Disney Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  49 reviews
Format: Anamorphic, PAL
Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), Norwegian (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), Icelandic (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), Hindi (Subtitled), English (Original Language), English (Audio Description)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 8717418200657
ASIN: B001QOGX50
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: June 29, 2009
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Amazon.co.uk Review
It’s way past time that Isla Fisher bagged herself a leading role, after solid supporting turns in the likes of Wedding Crashers and Definitely, Maybe and finally, in Confessions Of A Shopaholic, the ex-soap star gets her chance. She seizes it quite well, too. Based on the Sophie Kinsella book of the same name, Confessions Of A Shopaholic is a fairly conventional romantic comedy, but it’s still a very enjoyable one. It’s directed by PJ Hogan, who previously gave us the excellent double bill of Muriel’s Wedding and My Best Friend’s Wedding, and it follows Fisher’s character Rebecca as she tries to cover up her dedication to shopping, while yearning for a job on a fashion magazine. The plot goes through the fairly standard shenanigans of the genre, but there are one or two things that lift Confessions Of A Shopaholic above the norm. Firstly, it’s breezy and very good fun. Secondly, PJ Hogan knows this genre better than most, and fashions (no pun intended) a quite tight movie. And thirdly there’s Fisher. It may not be a role that makes her an outright movie star, but there’s compelling evidence here that she’s got the talent to be a leading lady in her own right. This, her first stab at headlining such a film, works really quite well, and her charm and enthusiasm is the best thing in it. Worth taking a look at. –-Jon Foster
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Not quite what I was expecting... June 9, 2009
Andreea-Lygia Popescu (Faroe Islands)
14 out of 17 found this review helpful
I was thrilled when I heard about "Confessions of a Shopaholic" will become a movie. Exactly because I am a big fan of the entire book series.
And than the movie came. But it disappointed me somehow. The cast was excellent, Becky being the one I imagined reading the books, Luke the same. But there the resemblence stopped. Ok, you'll accuse me of being one of those single-minded persons who sees only one side of the medal. But...sorry, I can not! Becky is English, more English than Bridget Jones herself and to transform her in an American... Suze was supposed to meet Tarquin "on the way" and he was a plain, borring, rich, horrible (in Becky's opinion) dressed, Scottish guy, who did not even interest Suze, in the begining. And Becky...Becky was supposed to work for a television. Luke had Brandon communications from the start, he did not work for anyone. And so on....
This is always the mistake the writters do. They take a funny book (I would not use the adjective "great" because it isn't the case) and transform it in something that, they believe, would be more appealling for the larger public. For me, Becky Bloomwood died in the moment she became American.
On the other hand, it was kind of funny, well acted and I have to admit that Isla Fisher did a great job. But it lacked something, a spark, a little bit more chemistry between the main characters. Maybe Alicia Billington should have been more of a villain than a ... clown who tried so hard to be mean. But, in the end, it is a funny movie for a Sunday rainy afternoon spend with your girl-friends and a warning for what you may become if you are addicted to shopping (I've started to believe I am one...).
 Cost and worth are two different things April 10, 2010
bernie (Arlington, Texas)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a fun formula movie and you can add Isla Fisher to the long list of actors, such as Jennifer Aniston and Sandra Bullock, which make their mark with romantic comedies where the girl goes wrong but gets her man.
This time it is about a girl, Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher), whom has a compulsion to shop. She is being stalked by a debt collector Derek Smeath (Robert Stanton) and takes a job in a financial magazine as a bridge to the fashion magazine that she really wants to work for. The situation of course is never clear cut.
We pretty much know what is going to happen and have the fun of kibitzing.
 RiaH17 April 6, 2010
Ms. R. Hookings (Bristol, England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a real feel good chick flick to watch when your feeling particularly low. Contains a bit of romance, humour and of course encourages a girls favourite past time (besides eating chocolate. My parents also really liked the film, which is a good thing considering they don't usually like my choice of films
girlie, girlie film March 22, 2010
lady inca (Leicester,England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A real girlie girlie film, it was brill my daughters and i enjoyed it immensely,It's the sort of film you can watch again and again,
Feel good film March 9, 2010
Sarah (London, England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved all the books and worried that the film wouldn't leave up to the expectations.
The film is different to the book... but if you watch the film and take it at face value it's really good fun film.
Isla Fisher is awesome and in my opinion should be given more films of this nature to star in!
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