Rated: PGStarring: Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy, Krysten Ritter, Kristin Scott Thomas, John Goodman, John Lithgow, Joan Cusack
Gardening journalist Rebecca Bloomwood has been into fashion and shopping ever since she was a little girl, so when a position opens up at high fashion magazine Allette, she jumps at the chance to interview for it. When she arrives for the interview, she learns the position has already been filled internally, so she reluctantly agrees to interview for Successful Saving, a fiance magazine who shares the same publisher as Allette and is located in the same building, to use as a sort of stepping stone to work up to Allette.
Eventually, despite an amusing misunderstanding on her part, she lands the job for Successul Saving. While writing for the finace magazine, she realizes she can explain fiance and debt, from her own shopping experiences, for the average joe reader to understand it, which makes her column and the magazine a huge success. But little do they realize, she's living a lie, having over $16,000 in credit card debt while she continues to shop.
While hiding from her credit collector and lying to others about him (at one point she tells her coworkers he's an ex boyfriend who keeps stalking her), she also attends Shopaholics Anonymous, which her outings with them are quite amusing.
In the end she learns the hard way that her relationships and friendships with others are what really matters and it's better to be honest than live a lie. Money and material things can only make you happy for so long, but it's the friendships and relationships that last.
Isla Fisher, known mostly to movie-goers for her supporting roles in "Wedding Crashers" and "Definitely, Maybe," shows that she can she hold a movie on her own as the leading lady in this romantic girly comedy.
Girls like to shop and her rationale for spending as much as she does is one that every girl can relate to. It was a cute and amusing movie - definitely one worth seeing for a Girls Night Out.
