The movie "Confessions of a Shopaholic" is based on the book by the same name, by author Sophie Kinsella, but the movie changes the book's plot considerably, while still maintaining the basic idea. Isla Fisher ("Wedding Crashers") plays Becky Bloomwood, a young, single gal who loves to shop. Walking into a store is like walking into a holy place for Becky, and if the clothes are on sale, even better. Unfortunately, what she doesn't like doing is opening her credit card bills and paying them. Her roommate Suze (Krysten Ritter of TV's "Breaking Bad") helps her out by not cashing her rent checks, but when bill collector Derek Smeath (character actor Robert Stanton) begins pursuing Rebecca with a vengeance, she realizes she'd better start paying her bills. Her dream is to work for  fashion magazine Alette, but she takes a job at another magazine published by the same company, a magazine with the ironic name "Successful Saving".  There she meets ultra-suave Luke Brandon (British … [Read more...]