Product Details

• Actors: Marianne Sägebrecht, Brad Davis, Judge Reinhold, Erika Blumberger, Willy Harlander
• Format: NTSC
• Language: English, German
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Lions Gate
• VHS Release Date: September 5, 1990
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301729870
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #135,586 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Rosalie loves to shop too much to let a little thing like no money stop her. When the local shopkeepers no longer take her bad checks or bad credit cards, she's reduced to stealing from one family member to buy presents for others. It's looking pretty bleak until her daughter pushes her into buying a 'guilt gift' of a PC, complete with modem. Master shopper becomes master hacker, and Rosalie is back on top.

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Top Notch Adlon, January 29, 2001

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David M. Arnold (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rosalie Goes Shopping [VHS] (VHS Tape)

One of several films from the writer/director pair, Percy and Eleanor Adlon, featuring Marianne Sägebrecht. As with others (Sugarbaby and The Baghdad Café) we are presented with quirky story and innovative cinematography.

Rosalie (Sägebrecht), the matriarch of Greenspace family is presented with the daunting task of maintaining the lifestyle to which her family has grown accustomed embarks upon a series of zany plots to keep the bill collectors at bay. These include emptying her children's bank accounts, forging checks, juggling 37 credit cards and three mortgages all in an effort to keep every member of her enormous family happy. This is punctuated by routine visits to her local Catholic Priest (Judge Reinhold) where she confesses her trespasses. When her daughter demands a new PC for her birthday, she swipes her parent's airline tickets and buys it for her. She promptly becomes a pirate of the online banking world to keep above water.

This film is a hysterical satire of the American consumer society.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Bavaria in Arkansas, January 6, 2009

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F. X. Hartigan (Medical Lake, Washington, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rosalie Goes Shopping [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Marianne Sagebrecht is brilliant in this comedy about living beyond one's means. Dated, yes, but hilarious, and Brad Davis was hot as ever. Judge Reinhold is great as the parish priest.

5.0 out of 5 stars too funny, December 27, 2010

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V. Brown "llacharbach" (the hinterlands of Idaho-ho-ho) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rosalie Goes Shopping [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Before there was the saying "too big to fail", there was Rosalie.
OMG is this funny. Crime this isnt on DVD for the US.