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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
EAN: 0786936282986
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 25, 2006
Running Time: 106 minutes
Sales Rank: 6537
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
Theatrical Release Date: October 21, 2005
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Description:
Based on Steve Martin's best-selling novella, and starring Golden Globe(R) winner Claire Danes (Best Actress In A TV Series, MY SO-CALLED LIFE, 1994), Golden Globe(R) nominee Steve Martin (Best Actor In A Motion Picture -- Comedy/Musical, FATHER OF THE BRIDE PART II, 1995), and Jason Schwartzman (BEWITCHED), SHOPGIRL is a disarmingly funny love story. Mirabelle, brilliantly played by Danes, is an aspiring artist working behind the glove counter at a Beverly Hills department store when she meets two very different men -- Jeremy (Schwartzman), a socially inept guy who doesn't seem to be going anywhere, and Ray (Martin) a wealthy entrepreneur who has the world at his feet. Filled with the mixed signals and missteps of a modern romance, SHOPGIRL is a fresh and witty, warm, and funny romantic comedy you can't help but fall in love with.
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Any fan of Steve Martin's 2000 novella will enjoy this pitch-perfect adaptation, which glowingly captures the bittersweet tones of a May-December romance. Martin wrote the screenplay and stars as Ray Porter, a button-down 50-something executive who reaches out to a much younger woman as a Los Angeles playmate. The book and movie, though, are both primarily about Mirabelle (Claire Danes), a 20-something with a pile of promises, debt, and depression, as she fades away into a slow corner of Saks selling unneeded formal gloves. She's a wisp of a person, with a cat who doesn’t love her, and when she finds a suitor, it's Jeremy (Jason Schwartzman), a scruffy artist who babbles on about speakers. When the gentlemanly Porter calls, his appearance in her life begins to make her whole. It also immediately sets her up for sadness--Ray thinks of Mirabella as a precious outlet for sex, while Mirabelle, very mistakenly, sees Ray as a potential lifelong mate. Martin deftly turns the novella's prose into dialogue, allowing the movie to feel full-bodied, and the film also works as a comedy, as we witness Jeremy's growth on the road with a rock band. Schwartzman would walk away with film if not for the perfectly cast leads: Martin does another smart turn away from his wild-and-crazy moniker, Danes has never been better in an Oscar-worthy performance, and Bridgette Wilson-Sampras aces her role as a hot-to-trot co-worker of Mirabelle's. Whoever's decision to have Martin be the omnipresent narrator, though, should be penalized, as it’s confusing to have him in two roles, and the information is pretty useless, even robbing the film of a final grace note. --Doug Thomas
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Average Rating: 
Rating:  - this is awful.............
i totally love Claire Danes so i got this .....Unfortunately, this turned out to be a poor choice....there was hardly any chemistry between Jermey and Mirabelle....which makes it all the weirder when she eventually ended up with him.....
Rating:  - Good but....
Shopgirl is one of those very good films that somehow leaves you wanting it to have been something better, something great, which it is not. It indeed had a chance to be a truly great film, save for a few glitches, most of them having to do with the screenplay, but opted for the true Lowest Common Denominator Hollywood flaw of `playing it safe'.
Where the film succeeds is that it is blatantly a middle-aged male fantasy film, with an average looking fiftysomething wealthy computer executive named Ray Porter's attempts to make a mistress out of a twentysomething `shopgirl' he meets and woos at her L.A. Saks Fifth Avenue department store counter. She sells high fashion formal gloves and the double-divorced Ray (Steve Martin) buys them and mails them to her apartment. The shopgirl, a wannabe artist from Vermont named Mirabelle Buttersfield (Claire Danes), is sort of involved with an awkward loser, amplifier salesman, and font designer named Jeremy (Jason Schwartzman, of Rushmore fame). From the first scene Danes and Schwartzman have together, at a laundromat, it's obvious they have real onscreen chemistry and are destined to be together. This is not a flaw, for most romances have this. The crux of the film is not will they end up together, but how will they end up together?
Danes shows that she is the best twentysomething actress around, and has the most potential since Gwyneth Paltrow became a star in the late 1990s. The film could get her an Oscar, but, even though the Academy looks ... Read More
Rating:  - Small but interesting
Did Steve Martin's novella by the same name come first? I think so. Now, it's this movie which is a little rumination on the choices we make. I think it's Martin's own story. He seems a little lonely.
Rating:  - Romances contemporáneos
Comencé a ver un poco ya comenzada la pelicula, pero de inmediato me encanto la actuación de Claire Danes y, posteriormente las relaciones que se comienzan a dar entre los tres protagonistas. No me gustó el final que se da, pues queda demostrado que el amor igual existió y aunque la femina buscaba otro tipo de sentido a una relación amorosa, la cree encontrar pero recordando lo intenso y profundo de la primera seria relación que tiene. Steven Martin en sorprendente actuación y muy creible en su rol.
Rating: - A Very Touching Movie
I was boohooing by the end of this very moving film. Keep your tissues nearby. Steve Martin, who I just discovered actually wrote the novella upon which this movie was based, plays an older, very cold, very calculating man, who pursues and then uses a much younger, naive, lonely girl, strictly for her body. A younger, almost annoying, very weird artist also pursues the Shopgirl, but with very different motives.
What I loved about this movie is that it has a very happy ending, as the young lady finds true love and is able to move on from what could have been a shattering experience with Martin's character. I have always admired Ms. Danes and she has done a great job, as usual, in this movie.
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