Rosalie Goes Shopping is a 1989

1989 in film

-Events:* Batman is released on June 23, and goes on to gross over $410 million worldwide.* Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia, for $20 million...

 German film (in English) directed by Percy Adlon

Percy Adlon

Percy Adlon is a German film and television director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for his film Bagdad Café aka Out of Rosenheim.-Biography:...

 and starring Marianne Sägebrecht

Marianne Sägebrecht

Marianne Sägebrecht is a German film actress.Her background included stints as a medical lab assistant and magazine assistant editor before she found her calling in show business...

, Brad Davis

Brad Davis (actor)

Robert Creel "Brad" Davis was an American actor, known for starring in the 1978 film Midnight Express.-Early life:...

, and Judge Reinhold

Judge Reinhold

Judge Reinhold is an American actor, perhaps best known for co-starring in movies such as Beverly Hills Cop, Ruthless People, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and The Santa Clause trilogy.-Early life:...

. The film, which was in competition at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival

1989 Cannes Film Festival

- Jury :*Wim Wenders *Christine Gouze-Renal*Claude Beylie*Georges Delerue*Hector Babenco*Krzysztof Kieślowski*Peter Handke*Renée Blanchar*Sally Field*Silvio Clementelli-Feature film competition:* Chimère by Claire Devers...

 and was rated "PG" in the MPAA film rating system

MPAA film rating system

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, met mixed reviews. The Deseret News described it as "dark satire masquerading as bright comedy", acknowledging it as a comment on American consumerism

Consumerism

Consumerism is a social and economic order that is based on the systematic creation and fostering of a desire to purchase goods and services in ever greater amounts. The term is often associated with criticisms of consumption starting with Thorstein Veblen...

, and praised Sägebrecht's "terrific comic talents", while both film critic Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert is an American film critic and screenwriter. He is the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.Ebert is known for his film review column and for the television programs Sneak Previews, At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and Siskel and Ebert and The...

 and TV Guide

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 gave it three stars (of a maximum four). The Washington Post, on the other hand, regretted the film's "deficit of dramatic tension" and considered Adlon's message "scatterbrained" and "thin stuff indeed".

In the United States

United States

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, the film grossed USD

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 574,080. It was shot in various locations in Arkansas

Arkansas

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, including Stuttgart

Stuttgart, Arkansas

Stuttgart is a city in and the county seat of the northern district of Arkansas County, Arkansas, United States. It is located on U.S. Route 79 about miles southeast of Little Rock. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 9,376.The town proclaims itself the "Rice...

, Little Rock

Little Rock, Arkansas

Little Rock is the capital and the largest city of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 699,757 people in the 2010 census...

, and De Valls Bluff

De Valls Bluff, Arkansas

De Valls Bluff is a town in and the county seat of the southern district of Prairie County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 783 at the 2000 census.-Geography:De Valls Bluff is located at ....

.

Cast

• Marianne Sägebrecht
  Marianne Sägebrecht
  Marianne Sägebrecht is a German film actress.Her background included stints as a medical lab assistant and magazine assistant editor before she found her calling in show business...
  
   - Rosalie Greenspace
• Brad Davis
  Brad Davis (actor)
  Robert Creel "Brad" Davis was an American actor, known for starring in the 1978 film Midnight Express.-Early life:...
  
   - Ray 'Liebling' Greenspace
• Judge Reinhold
  Judge Reinhold
  Judge Reinhold is an American actor, perhaps best known for co-starring in movies such as Beverly Hills Cop, Ruthless People, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and The Santa Clause trilogy.-Early life:...
  
   - The Priest
• Erika Blumberger - Rosalie's Mother
• Willy Harlander - Rosalie's Father
• John Hawkes
  John Hawkes (actor)
  John Hawkes is an American film and television actor. He is known for his portrayal of the merchant Sol Star on the HBO series Deadwood, Dustin Powers on Eastbound & Down, and his Academy Award-nominated performance as the menacing backwoods meth addict Teardrop in Winter's Bone.-Life and...
  
   - Schnucki Greenspace
• Patricia Zehentmayr - Barbara Greenspace
• Courtney Kraus - April
• Alex Winter
  Alex Winter
  Alexander Ross "Alex" Winter is an English-born American actor, film director, and film writer, best known for his role as Bill S. Preston Esq. in the 1989 film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and its 1991 sequel Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey...
  
   - Schatzi Greenspace
• Lisa Fitzhugh - Greenspace Twin
• Lori Fitzhugh - Greenspace Twin
• David Denney - Kindi Greenspace
• Dina Chandel - Herzi Greenspace
• Ed Geldart - Burt
• John William Galt - Bank President