Director: PJ Hogan
Summary: A shopping addict lands a job at a personal finance magazine
and meets an attractive entrepreneur
Starring: Hugh Dancy, Isla
Fisher, Joan Cusack, John Goodman, John
Lithgow, Kristin Scott
Thomas, Krysten Ritterand Leslie Bibb
Release
Date: February 13, 2009
Synopsis:
Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) is a shopping addict who lives
with her best friend Suze (Krysten Ritter). She works as a journalist for a
gardening magazine but dreams to join the fashion magazine Alette. On the way
to an interview with Alette, she buys a green scarf. Her credit card is
declined, so Rebecca goes to a hot dog stand and offers to buy all the hot dogs
with a check, if the seller gives her back change in cash, saying the scarf is
to be a gift for her sick aunt. The hot dog vendor refuses but a man offers her
$20.
When Rebecca arrives at the interview, she's told that the
position has been filled by Alicia Billington. However, the receptionist tells
her there is an open position with the magazine Successful Saving, explaining
how getting a job at Successful Savings could eventually lead to a position at
Alette magazine. Rebecca interviews with Luke Brandon (Hugh Dancy), the editor
of Successful Savings and the man who just gave her the $20. She hides her
scarf outside his office, but Luke's assistant comes into the office and gives
it back to her. Rebecca knows the game is up and leaves.
That evening, drunk, she and Suze write letters to Alette and
Successful Saving, but she mails each to the wrong magazine. Luke likes the
letter she meant to send to Alette and hires her. Rather than completing a work
assignment for a new column, Rebecca goes to a clothing sale. While inspecting
a cashmere coat she has just purchased, she realizes it is not 100% cashmere
and she has been duped. This gives her an idea for the column, which she writes
under the name "The Girl in the Green Scarf" and is an instant
success.
Rebecca later returns home to renewed confrontations with her
debt collector, so Suze makes her attend Shopaholics Anonymous. The group
leader, Miss Korch (Wendie Malick), forces Rebecca to donate all the clothes
she just bought, including a bridesmaid's dress for Suze's wedding and a dress
for a TV interview. After the meeting Rebecca can't afford to buy back both and
buys back the interview dress. During the interview, Rebecca is accused of not
paying her debts and loses her job. Suze is angry when she finds out that
Rebecca lost the bridesmaid dress. Alette offers Rebecca a position at the
magazine, but Rebecca declines. She sells most of her clothes to pay her debts,
including the green scarf. Meanwhile, Luke starts a new company, Brandon
Communications.
Rebecca's clothes sale makes it possible for her to pay her
debts. Rebecca attends Suze's wedding after reclaiming her bridesmaid dress,
and Suze forgives her. Rebecca and Luke reunite, and Luke returns the green
scarf after revealing that the person who bought it at an auction was acting as
his agent. Rebecca becomes romantically involved with Luke and starts working
at his new company.
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