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Going Shopping
Rainbow Releasing
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for brief strong language
Starring
Victoria Foyt,
Rob Morrow,
Lee Grant,
Bruce Davison,
Mae Whitman,
Jennifer Grant,
and
Juliet Landau
Focusing on Holly G. (Foyt), a successful clothing designer with her own boutique, this film portrays a complex aspect of women's lives, one that is usually overlooked or dismissed by mainstream Hollywood: shopping! (Rainbow Releasing)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Victoria Foyt
Henry Jaglom
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Henry Jaglom
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: February 20, 2007
Theatrical: September 30, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
106 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
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75
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Comes as close as any film to explaining what the deal is with women and shopping.
75
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Going Shopping is sharp and funny about all the things that shopping can mean to the women who live to do it, and even to those who don't.
75
Miami Herald
Marta Barber
Going Shopping can make a wonderful outing for girlfriends. It's fun.
75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
There's just enough neurotic or sharp badinage and Rodeo Drive realism to make it all go down easy.
70
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
It completes an informal trilogy that treats women's anxieties over food, motherhood and now clothes with humor and affection.
70
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas
As in many of his films, Jaglom establishes a striking intimate rapport with his female subjects, and as the funny and bitter revelations pour forth, an activity that many men may view as something done strictly out of necessity takes on unforeseen narcotic, romantic and therapeutic dimensions.
63
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Though intermittently shrill, Shopping does have enough moments of insight to blunt charges of sexist stereotyping.
60
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Going Shopping, like Mr. Jaglom's other movies, has enough smart, knowing touches and enough easy spontaneity among its well-chosen actors to make you wish it added up to more than what it turns out to be: a flighty, motor-mouthed cinematic divertissement.
60
Film Threat
Phil Hall
Jaglom has the good sense to cast the legendary Lee Grant in an extraordinary role.
50
The Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden
Zeroes in on retail mania with a flimsy wire hanger of a premise.
50
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Every scene ends with a gag line, punched up by Jaglom's harried intercutting, and threaded through the story are close-ups of women discussing their obsession with new clothes, an exercise that yields its wisdom in the first 20 minutes and then keeps repeating it.
50
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
The message is muddled.
40
Variety
Lael Loewenstein
Item may draw curious women looking to cool their heels, say, while out shopping, but straight men can be expected to stay away in droves and Jaglom regulars will probably wait for the DVD.
38
TV Guide
Ken Fox
More cheerful misogyny from writer-director Henry Jaglom.
20
Village Voice
Akiva Gottlieb
Henry Jaglom's latest study of contemporary female obsessions among a noxious clan of West L.A. bourgeoisie is of more pathological than cinematic interest.
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