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''Confessions of a Shopaholic'' is a 2009 film adaptation of the ''{{Literature/Shopaholic}}'' series of novels by Creator/SophieKinsella. It was directed by P. J. Hogan and stars Creator/IslaFisher as the central character, Rebecca Bloomwood, the shopaholic journalist.

The story follows Rebecca Bloomwood, a self-professed shopaholic who has bought her way into debt with her many, many, many purchases. The film follows her recalling how this sorry state came to be and illustrates her attempts to overcome the detrimental affliction and work her way out of debt.

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!!This film provides examples of:

* AdaptationDyeJob: The book series describes Rebecca as brunette and green-eyed and Suze as a blonde. The movie depicts Rebecca as redheaded and brown-eyed and Suze as a brunette.
* AdaptedOut: The Websters, who are neighbors and close friends of the Bloomwoods are nowhere to be seen.
* AffectionateNickname: Suze often calls Rebecca "Bex" for short.
* AllWomenLoveShoes: Shoes are prominently featured in Rebecca's horde of purchases, and she spends the entire movie dressed in flashy high heels.
* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Rebecca pays off her debts in full to Derek Smeath with jars of coins. In real life there's no law requiring merchants to accept coins as a means of payment. However, if Derek Smeath had refused to accept thousands of dollars in American coins, legally Rebecca's debts would still be considered paid off.
* AwesomeButImpractical / BoringButPractical: How Rebecca defined a "real present" and a "fake present" in her youth. "Real" presents were fancy things that didn't last a month; "fake" presents were dull things that would last a long time.
* BecomingTheMask: Subverted. Rebecca's position at Successful Saving doesn't eradicate her addiction, but the more she's around Luke Brandon, and the more she writes for him, the more she settles into the Girl in the Green Scarf role.
* BrickJoke: After lying on her resume that she knows Finnish, Luke introduces her to a Finnish colleague at a social event, where she flubs her way into pretending to understand him. At the end of the movie, she's revealed to have learned Finnish for real and goes back up to the same Finnish gentlemen, introducing Alicia as "a world-famous prostitute".
* DanceOfRomance: Rebecca and Luke have a brief dance scene when they're at the conference in Florida. It's somewhat played for laughs because Rebecca keeps stepping on Luke's feet and hitting him in the face with a fan accidentally.
* EmbarrassingRingtone: Becky's ringtone for her banker says "Don't answer this call; it's Derek Smeath." It goes off while Mr. Smeath is in the vicinity.
* EvilDebtCollector:
** The debt collector. No surprise there. Goes as far as to humiliate the lead on national television, which by the way is against the FDCPA (the part about disclosing debt to third parties). Too bad she was too dumb to sue the collector to oblivion for it (which given the recorded footage she would have won). This isn't very different than the way debt collectors are in reality, and most people don't know that they have grounds to sue.
** The debt collector is actually a CompositeCharacter of both Derek Smeath and John Gavin. Derek Smeath in the books turns out to be an understanding 'uncle' type who actually helps Becky pay off her debt, John Gavin is more stern and hostile, as seen in the movie. Essentially he's only Derek Smeath in name.
* FantasySequence: Apparently, Rebecca is ''so'' obsessed with shopping that she imagines mannequins communicating with her. Which makes it a little weird when [[EyelessFace the ones with blank faces]] do so.
* FreudianExcuse: Depending on how you feel about Rebecca, she possibly has one. Her mother always bought her boring and unfashionable clothes, only thinking of their good prices, while Rebecca wanted the pretty, sparkly, overpriced clothes--that every other girl her age got--and as a little girl saw older girls and adults buying whatever they wanted with magic cards. No one corrected this thinking, so she grew up becoming the fashionable girl she always wanted to be, in her 20s, but with twelve credit cards and a boatload of debt she has no idea how to pay off.
* FunWithForeignLanguages: Rebecca spices up her resume by claiming, falsely, that she's fluent in Finnish. After she gets the job, her skills are put to test in a cocktail party with [[FunnyForeigner an actual Finnish person]]. Not ready to admit the truth, Rebecca [[TakeAThirdOption solves the situation]] by [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale slapping the man]] in front of everybody and claiming that men like him are the reason she left Finland. What the man was actually saying is not really that abusive: "Hi! So nice to meet another Finn in here! Ever since I've been here in Americ--" *slap*
* GeniusDitz: Rebecca, the titular shopaholic actually has a knack for financial advice.
* HumiliationConga: What Rebecca "suffers" at National TV courtesy of Derek Smeath (her card collector) barging into the talk show and reading the LongList of debts and her cons to evade paying them to a live audience.
* HurricaneOfExcuses: Derek Smeath reads a list of Rebecca's excuses to not pay him immediately when he called her to request it (which he wrote on his notebook), including two dead parents, dead pets, and one pretense she did not spoke English. On live television.
* JerkassHasAPoint: While to some extent humiliating her on national TV was a step too far, the only reason Derek Smeath had to resort to extreme methods to chase Rebecca down was because she kept dodging all of his calls and refusing to meet with him in person, and she really did owe a huge amount of money that couldn't go ignored, requiring him to confront her in a situation she couldn't escape from.
* LegFocus: Alicia, to the point where she's nicknamed "Alicia-Bitch-Longlegs."
%%* LookBehindYou: During a job interview.
%%* MacGuffin: The green scarf, of course.
* PimpedOutDress: Suze's bridesmaid dress, of the horrendously pimped-out variety. It's hot pink with a puffy multicolored underskirt. Worse than that, the dress comes with a comically short veil to match.
* PinkIsFeminine: One of Rebecca's outfits is predominantly pink.
* RedheadInGreen: Rebecca is a redhead and she quickly becomes known as "The Girl with the Green Scarf." The movie's ending scene also shows her in a green dress borrowed from Suze.
* SecretlyWealthy: Luke Brandon is revealed to be the son of a wealthy Manhattan socialite, but Rebecca, pointing out that he's a workaholic and not always a sharp dresser, never would have guessed.
* SuddenlyShouting: Suze, upon finding out Rebecca lost her specially given bridesmaid dress.
-->'''Rebecca:''' Suz, that I can absolutely explain.\\
'''Suz:''' Okay, explain.\\
'''Rebecca:''' Oh... ''[stays silent]''\\
'''Suz:''' '''''EXPLAIN!'''''
* TwoFirstNames: Luke Brandon.

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