History Film / ConfessionsOfAShopaholic

* MacGuffin: The green scarf, of course.

%%* HumiliationConga: What Rebbeca "suffers" at National TV.

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

* AdaptationDyeJob: The book series describes Rebecca as brunette and green eyed and Suze as blonde. The movie depicts Rebecca as redheaded and brown eyed and Suze as a brunette.

* HumiliationConga: What Rebbeca "suffers" at National TV.

* LookBehindYou: During a job interview.

* 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--she also as a little girl sees grown up girls buying what ever they wanted with magic cards. No one corrected her thinking this, so she grew up and became the becoming the fashionable girl she always wanted to be in her 20s. But with twelve credit cards and a lot of debt.

* 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 price. While she wanted the pretty, sparkly, overpriced clothes--that every other girl her age got-- and believing grownup girls could buy what ever they wanted with magic cards as a little girl (with no one correcting her) lead to her eventually becoming the fashionable 20 something girl she always wanted to be, with twelve credit cards.

* 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 price. While she wanted the pretty, sparkly, overpriced clothes--that every other girl her age got--Believing grownups could buy what ever they wanted with magic cards as a child, without anyone correcting her. Lead to her eventually becoming a fashionable girl with twelve credit cards, thousands in debt.

* FreudianExcuse: Depending on how you feel about these, Rebecca has one. The fact that her mother always bought her the boring clothing items she didn't want, rather than the sparkly, overpriced ones she did--and that every other girl her age got--contributed to the fact that she became a shopaholic with twelve credit cards.

* 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.

* AllWomenLoveShoes: Shoes are prominently featured in Rebecca's horde of purchases. She also spends the movie dressed in flashy high heels.

* 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, requiring him to confront her in a situation she couldn't escape from, and she really did owe a huge amount of money that couldn't go ignored.

* CreatorBacklash: Kristin Scott Thomas, who had a supporting role as magazine editor Alette Naylor, later admitted that she didn't enjoy the filming process for the movie.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Reese Witherspoon, Anne Hathaway, Kirsten Dunst,and Amanda Bynes, among others were all considered to play Rebecca.

* BecomingTheMask: Somewhat 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.

** 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.

* RedheadInGreen: Rebecca is a redhead and she quickly becomes known as "The Girl with the Green Scarf." The movies ending scene also shows her in a green dress borrowed from Suze.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Reese Witherspoon, Anne Hathaway, and Amanda Bynes, among others were considered to play Rebecca.

* GeniusDitz: The lead.

* RedheadInGreen: Rebecca is a redhead and she quickly becomes known as "The Girl with the Green Scarf"

* PimpedOutDress: Suze's bridesmaid dress, of the horrendously pimped-out variety. It's hot pink with a poofy multicolored underskirt. Worse than that, the dress comes with a matching pink handkerchief you have to wear on your head.

* 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).

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

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

* YourMindMakesItReal: Apparently, Rebecca is ''so'' obsessed with shopping that she imagines mannequins communicating with her. Which makes it [[UncannyValley a little weird]] when [[EyelessFace the ones with blank faces]] do so.

* 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 [[AbuseIsOkayWhenItIsFemaleOnMale 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*

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