Everybody likes nice things, right? Well, Rebecca Bloomwood (Fisher) does - or at least she likes to buy them. Clothes, accessories, shoes... she may never wear them, hell, they might not even be her size, but buying them is the thrill. If you let a girl like this loose in Manhattan with a credit card, God help you. Unfortunately, at some point the bills do have to get paid, and Rebecca finds herself a job - strategically padding her resum((eacute)) to become a financial advice columnist. But will her addictive ways end up costing her far more than she bargained for when she falls for wealthy entrepreneur Luke Brandon?

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J. Hogan has a knack for stories about seemingly unsympathetic heroines (cases in point, Muriel's Wedding and My Best Friend's Wedding). Casting the gloriously ditzy Fisher as the heroine of the bestselling books means that only the most ardent socialist could disapprove of this fluffy tale of conspicuous consumption. In what may be a first for a chick-flick, the ending was apparently reshot to display a tad more sensitivity towards the world financial crisis... but really, this is mostly a giddy fantasy for anyone who's wanted to cut loose with the credit card.

There have been many movies about The Second World War. This one, however, tells it from an entirely new perspective ((ndash)) that of a child. The story revolves around an 8 year old German boy named Bruno (Butterfield). He lives a comfortable life in Berlin with his teenage sister, mother and father high-ranking Nazi officer father. His life changes dramatically when his father gets a promotion and the family must move to the countryside.

From the new house, Bruno spots a concentration camp which he innocently mistakes for a farm and wonders why everyone there is dressed in striped pyjamas. Despite being forbidden, Bruno secretly goes to the camp where he meets a Jewish boy named Shmuel (Scanlon) who is the same age as Bruno. Shmuel tells Bruno that the Jews have been imprisoned by soldiers without any known reason and have had their clothes taken away from them. Bruno regularly returns to the camp, bringing Shmuel food and playing checkers with him through the fence.

As the film unfolds Bruno learns more about what is actually happening to the people in concentration camps. His innocence gradually evaporates as he starts to question the morality of what his father does.

This is a very depressing and confronting film that explores inhumane activities through innocent eyes. While there are some large factual inaccuracies they are necessary for the plot to work and help to create a very powerful story.