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October 19, 2005

SHOPGIRL

COLE SMITHEY

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ColeSmithey.comSteve Martin makes his personal dysfunctional romantic proclivities the subject of a brittle romantic comedy that affords painfully little romance or humor.

Transferred to the big screen from Martin's novella of the same name, "Shopgirl" exposes the author's permanent state of mid-life crisis as he makes a production of seducing a girl some 25 or 30 years his junior — because, well, he can.

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Claire Danes drives the film in a blank role thankfully not played by current-it-girl Selma Blair.

Mirabelle (Danes) is a self-described "poor judge of character" who does charcoal art in her drab and lonely Los Angeles apartment when she isn't working a soul-crushing day job as a counter girl in the glove department of Saks Fifth Avenue.

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Jason Schwartzman plays Mirabelle's slacker suitor Jeremy, who learns the film's thesis that money changes everything after going on the road with a rock band as an unintended self-help sabbatical.

Rated R. 116 mins. 

1 Star

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