Rosalie Goes Shopping
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| Directed by | Percy Adlon |
| Produced by | Eleanor Adlon Percy Adlon Jill Griffith |
| Written by | Christopher Doherty Percy Adlon Eleanor Adlon |
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Marianne Sägebrecht Brad Davis Judge Reinhold |
| Music by | Bob Telson |
| Cinematography | Bernd Heinl |
| Edited by | Jean-Claude Piroué |
| Distributed by | Bayerischer Rundfunk |
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94 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | English |
| Box office | USD 574,080 (United States only) |
Rosalie Goes Shopping is a 1989 English-language German film directed by Percy Adlon and starring Marianne Sägebrecht, Brad Davis, and Judge Reinhold.
Rosalie Greenspace is an expatriate German woman living in rural Arkansas with her eccentric American husband Ray, who works as a crop-duster airplane pilot. They have seven children: Schnucki, the eldest son who is a US Army soldier stationed out of state; Barbara, the eldest daughter who is a good-natured overachieving college student; Schatzi, an underachieving high school student; Kindi, a flamboyant gourmet cook; teenage twin girls who are never named; and Herzi, the youngest child. Rosalie loves to shop too much to let a little thing like no money stop her. Every day she goes on lavish shopping sprees in the nearby small town of Stuttgart (the same name of her hometown in Germany) where she forges checks, uses false credit cards, and other means to supplement her livelihood with purchases of fancy foods for Kindi to cook and various clothing and appliances for her large house. A devout Catholic, she has a twisted view on religion when she goes every day to a small church and confesses her sins of stealing and swindling to a local priest, believing that if she confesses her crimes to her priest, her "sins" will not become sins anymore.
Schatzi is dating April, a girl from his high school whom he brings over to the house one day to meet the family for dinner. April is awkward about the Greenspace family's antics as well as their obsession with watching videotaped TV commercials as their only form of entertainment. She soon leaves Schatzi, finding his family too weird.
Rosalie's parents come for a visit one day from Germany, and Schnucki also arrives for a visit after taking a leave of absence from the military. During the week of the visits, both of Rosalie's parents, as well as Schnucki, find her self-indulgent spending of other people's money illegal, but Rosalie appears oblivious to her own actions. However, when the local shopkeepers no longer take her bad checks or bad credit cards, Rosalie is reduced to stealing from her eldest daughter, Barbara's, checking account to buy gifts for her parents, which earns Barbara's wrath and contempt as she finally realizes that her mother is out of control with stealing and spending.
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