| Movie DescriptionRebecca is having a memory about how she became a shopaholic. It includes shoes and a credit card.
Now, Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher), living with her best friend Suze (Krysten Ritter), has moved to Manhattan to get involved in the New York City magazine world. She has several credit cards and a shopping addiction. She's a journalist for a gardening magazine but her dream is to join the fashion magazine Alette. On the way to her interview for "Alette" she sees a green scarf and decides to buy it. Her credit card is declined and sale items can't be held, so Rebecca races to the nearest hot dog stand, offering to buy all the hot dogs if the seller gives her back change in cash. Rebecca lies, saying it's a gift for her sick aunt. Finally a man offers her $20. When Rebecca gets to the interview she's told that someone has got the position, but by joining another magazine owned by the company, she might make it all the way to Alette. The receptionist tells her there is a position in the magazine "Successful Savings".
When she interviews with Luke Brandon (Hugh Dancy), the editor of Successful Savings, she realizes he is the man from who loaned her $20. Whilst he talks on the phone, she hides her scarf in a cubicle outside his office. The interview doesn't go well and when he asks her a question related to the job, she doesn't have a clue what he is talking about and tries to distract him without any success. Luke's assistant comes into the room and tells Rebecca that she dropped her scarf. Rebecca knows her game is up and so leaves the interview.
Frustrated by her lack of success, she and Suze write drunken letters to Alette and Successful Saving, but she posts each to the wrong magazine. Nevertheless, Luke Brandon hires her. Then, rather than completing a work assignment, she goes to a clothing sale where she ends up by buying a lot of costly stuff. While examining some expensive cashmere gloves, she realizes that the gloves are only 5% cashmere and 95% acrylic, and it gives her inspiration for her column, calling herself "the Girl in the Green Scarf." The column is an instant success worldwide and even impresses the owner of the magazine company. Meanwhile, Rebecca tells everyone in the office that her credit collector, Derek Smeath, is actually her stalker when he attempts to reach her throughout the film. Luke invites her to a conference in Miami and an important ball. In the conference in Miami, she impresses a couple of CEOs of major companies who promises to give advertisement contracts to Successful Savings. At a restaurant Alicia (Leslie Bibb), asks Luke to the ball, leaving Rebecca feeling dejected.
Rebecca returns home to confrontations with Derek Smeath, a bill collector, so her roommate Suze makes her join Shopaholics Anonymous. The class leader, Miss Korch (Wendie Malick), forces her to donate all the clothes she just bought, including her maid of honor dress for Suze's wedding and a dress she purchased for a TV show interview for her now famous columns as "The Girl in the Green Scarf". She offers to buy back both dresses from the charity store she was forced to donate to, but can only afford one, and chooses the TV interview dress. During her live TV interview, Rebecca is publicly outed and accused of not paying her debts by Smeath, and consequently loses her job. Suze is also angry when she finds out that Rebecca sold her bridesmaid dress, and so doesn't let her back into the apartment. |
