Luke sees no reason to hire her, but after receiving a letter from her begging as to why she should get the job (letter which was meant to be sent to the fashion magazine, but it was sent to the wrong place by mistake) he decides to give her a chance. Rebecca would never be interested at a Savings magazine, seeing her tendency to shop obsessively, but she wants to work herself up the ladder to the fashion magazine. She thanks him and we soon understand that he is a practical man when we see him as the editor of Successful Savings where she goes to do a job interview after the place at Alette is filled up. Luke Brandon (Hugh Dancy) steps in that very scene, wanting to buy a hot dog and hearing that crazy woman’s plans, offers her the $20 she needed in order to pay for the scarf. On her way to the interview, she needs to buy a green scarf and – after all her cards get declined – she goes to a hot dog stand and offers to buy them all, if she gets the change back in cash, saying that the scarf is a very important gift for her aunt. We soon understand that she suffers from a pathology: “oniomania” which comes from the Greek onios (for sale) and mania (insanity), humorised as “shopaholism” in the movie.

Rebecca Bloomwood loses her job as a journalist at a gardening magazine and decides to do a job interview with the fashion magazine Alette.

Hogan, the film stars Isla Fisher as the shopaholic journalist and Hugh Dancy as her boss. It is a 2009 American romantic comedy film based on the Shopaholic series of novels by Sophie Kinsella.

Confessions of a shopaholic series