Movie Review: Confession of a Shopperholic

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The show is better than I expected. Going into the cinema, my mind was filled with pictures of a shallow woman doing as much shopping as she can, then joining a lame anonymous group to quit her obsession with shopping. Thinking it was another Hong Kong movie rip-off, I did not have a good feel of the movie when I first decided to get the tickets. But I still watched it anyways for various reasons. When the movie first opened, it showed a woman shopping and shopping and shopping. And then going back to a dead beat job writing one of the many common magazine firms to fuel her shopping habit. When the firm Rebecca Bloomwood was working for closed, she desperately seeks another job to settle her mounting debts from her shopping habit. In a bid to try and get into one of the famous fashion magazine, she landed a job in a financial magazine, hoping that it would be the stepping stone towards her ultimate goal fo writting for the fashion magazine. In a drunken stupor, she mixed up the letters she sent to the two magazine firms, leading the financial magazine editor to think that she is writing about financial advises using metaphors. She was hired then as a financial consultant writing for a column dispensing financial advise that goes against everything that she does on the financial front. What follows is a series of fool's luck events, leading to many people loving Rebecca for the things she wrote and the things she does. Slowly she fell in love with the editor who hired her. When her creditor exposed her during her TV interview that was televised nation wide, she was fired from her job. And in the midst of picking herself up, she found that there is more to life than just shopping and spending money. Picking up the pieces of her life, she managed to clear her debts, recover from her shopaholic habits and gain back the confidence of her editor boss and they became a couple. The show is quite simple in terms of story line. And that feel good factor at the end of it, makes it worth a watch. No silly cliches or shallow referrences to dumb-blonde jokes as I anticipated before sitting down to the movie. The one thing that I remember most is that scene where Rebecca's father offered to sell his RV to help her clear her debts: "You cannot sell that RV dad! It is what defines you!" "No, nothing else in this world defines me other than you and your mother. The both of you are what defines me!" That has got to be the sweetest lines I have ever heard! Give this movie a go if you do not mind a simple storyline and a predictable ending. But you walk away feeling good about watching it. Worth the ticket for that feel good feeling.