“Confessions of a Shopaholic“, based on a Sophie Kinsella’s best-selling series of novels, has been released.
The film stars Isla as Rebecca Bloomwood, a girl who loves shopping but winds up in credit card debt and has to take a job writing for a fashion magazine to pay for it all. Zaniness, it is assumed, ensues as she interacts with high-society and finds true love and all that stuff that jazz.
Confessions of a Shopaholic is directed by P.J. Hogan, of My Best Friend’s Wedding and Peter Pan previously. The screenplay was written by Tim Firth (Calendar Girls, Kinky Boots) and Tracey Jackson (The Guru, The Other End of the Line).
I first heard about this best selling novel gonna be make into a movie in 2006 from "The Purse Forum", it's from a lady called "Tracey Jackson", a member known as "traceyd". She was featured in NY Times in 1999 in an Article about her collection of about 100 bags, she is also a screen writer. An excerpt from her reply in "The Purse Forum", "the screenplay like many is still not made...last reading was meryl streep and kate hudson so we will see. i did adapt the book CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC, which should be made in the next year or so...thx 4 asking. " It is finally made into a Movie, not in a year or two but 3 years later now in 2009, In Cinema 26th March.
I managed to catch this Movie on it's opening today. Almost Fullhouse at the cinema, i purposely chosed a cinema out of town as i do not want to queue up for too long to buy the tickets. My dear friend bought the tickets & waited for me at the cinema, not his kind of movie but still he enjoyed it with me. It's a great light hearted comedy which carried a warning about those magic cards that can ruin your financial well-being if you abuse it. I am sure everyone is a Shopaholic at heart when we see something WE LIKE not something WE NEED in this Material World, we will still have the urge to buy it. I Admit I Am A Shopaholic At Times but i always shop & buy within my Financial Means, I am Liability-Free although i am always buying something new. Well this movie is nice to watch but not as good as "The Devil Wears Prada" nevertheless enjoyable as "Sex And The City"!
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