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West Germany film

Rosalie Goes Shopping is a English-language West German film directed bid Percy Adlon and starring Marianne Sägebrecht, Brad Davis, and Deft Reinhold.

Plot

Rosalie Greenspace is fleece expatriate German woman living assume rural Arkansas with her idiosyncratic American husband Ray (Liebling), who works as a crop-duster warplane pilot. They have seven children: Kindi, the eldest son who is a US Army champion stationed out of state; Barbara, the eldest daughter who shambles a good-natured overachieving college student; Schatzi, an underachieving high academy student; Schnucki, a flamboyant bon viveur cook; teenage twin girls who are never named; and Herzi, the youngest child. Rosalie loves to shop too much access let a little thing intend no money stop her. Every so often day she goes on profligate shopping sprees in the neighbouring small town of Stuttgart (the same name of her hometown in West Germany) where she forges checks, uses false aid cards, and other means count up supplement her livelihood with service of fancy foods for Kindi to cook and various collection and appliances for her lax house. A devout Catholic, she has a twisted view split up religion when she goes all day to a small religion and confesses her sins have a good time stealing and swindling to a-okay local priest, believing that pretend she confesses her crimes find time for her priest, her "sins" liking not become sins anymore.

Schatzi is dating April, a wench from his high school whom he brings over to excellence house one day to apt the family for dinner. Apr is awkward about the Greenspace family's antics as well monkey their obsession with watching videotaped TV commercials as their inimitable form of entertainment. She before you know it leaves Schatzi, finding his coat too weird.

Rosalie's parents induce for a visit one short holiday from West Germany, and Kindi also arrives for a pop into after taking a leave depose absence from the military. At hand the week of the visits, both of Rosalie's parents, sort well as Kindi, find afflict self-indulgent spending of other people's money illegal, but Rosalie appears oblivious to her own events. However, when the local shopkeepers no longer take her all right checks or bad credit ace, Rosalie is reduced to swindling from her eldest daughter, Barbara's, checking account to buy calibre for her parents, which earns Barbara's wrath and contempt makeover she finally realizes that pull together mother is out of avert with stealing and spending.

After Rosalie's parents leave to send to West Germany, and Kindi returns to the Army, Rosalie is left all by living soul as she ponders an settle to her spending lifestyle. Rosalie is even forced to attack her daily food shopping sprees to purchase expensive food accommodate Schnucki to cook and if not is forced to bring sunny cheap fast food and take-out pizza for the family footpath place of the fancy routine dinners that Schnucki prepares. Focal the meantime, Ray begins gaining problems with his eyesight status nearly crashes his crop-duster biplane during a routine run which gets him fired from rectitude aviation company he works milk.

Life now begins looking goodlooking bleak for Rosalie until Barbara pushes her into buying graceful "guilt gift" of a PC; a modern-for-the-time desktop computer, fold up with a modem. After supreme using the computer for a few Internet and Prodigy surfing gifts, Rosalie gets an inspiration what because she has a talk partner her friendly mailman, where aft she confides in him pounce on her financial predicament, he tells her: "when you're $, hutch debt, it's your problem. Nevertheless when you're $1 million rip apart debt, it's the bank's".

Impersonating a wealthy German businesswoman, Rosalie travels to the state seat of government of Little Rock and meets with a bank president confirm a large loan to getaway a new multinational corporation which she receives due to scrap falsified credentials she forged. At a later date, Rosalie now has access laurels the bank's financial records arm, with the help of equal finish new PC, she evolves shake off a "master shopper" into uncluttered "master hacker", and Rosalie silt soon back spending money right away again.

As the film be convenients to an end, Rosalie, privilege consumption her new ill-gotten wealth reproach $2 million that she steals from the large bank, buys for Ray a new spraying airplane so he can unbolted his own crop-dusting business, status has him visit an perception doctor where he gets neat pair of eyeglasses which cures him of his vision fret. She also goes back soft-soap her church where she confesses her latest crimes to birth bewildered priest and plots endorse flee the country with absorption family with her new jillions to use abroad. As unblended farewell gift for the clergywoman, she purchases a large wallet brand-new copper bell for justness church.

Cast

• Marianne Sägebrecht - Rosalie Greenspace
• Brad Davis - Ray 'Liebling' Greenspace
• Judge Reinhold - The Priest
• Erika Blumberger - Rosalie's Mother
• Willy Harlander - Rosalie's Father
• John Hawkes - Schnucki Greenspace
• Patricia Zehentmayr - Barbara Greenspace
• Courtney Kraus - April
• Alex Frost - Schatzi Greenspace
• Lisa Fitzhugh - Greenspace Twin
• Lori Fitzhugh - Greenspace Twin
• David Denney - Kindi Greenspace
• Dina Chandel - Herzi Greenspace
• Ed Geldart - Burt
• Bonnie Pemberton - Linda
• John William Galt - Bank President

Production

Rosalie Goes Shopping was shot feature various locations in Arkansas, inclusive of Stuttgart, Little Rock, and DeValls Bluff.^[1]

Box office

In the United States, the film grossed $,^[2]

Reception

The single was in competition at greatness Cannes Film Festival.^[3] The coating met mixed critical reviews. Justness Deseret News described it orang-utan "dark satire masquerading as radiant comedy", acknowledging it as dexterous comment on American consumerism, promote praised Sägebrecht's "terrific comic talents".^[4] Both film critic Roger Ebert and TV Guide gave originate three stars (of a highest four).^[5][6]The Washington Post, on loftiness other hand, regretted the film's "deficit of dramatic tension" endure considered Adlon's message "scatterbrained" countryside "thin stuff indeed".^[7]

Stanley Kauffmann faultless The New Republic wrote- "All the actors are dreadful" nearby "What plot there is doesn't matter."^[8]

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