Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber

Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber

JLH sheds her goody-two-shoes persona for a hard-driving character that makes this movie WORK! Katya is a non-naive ingénue to the workplace; she's a predator who understands what needs to be done in corporate America. She'll do what it takes to be successful in the world of fashion journalism. Especially delicious are the scenes wherein the in vogue bars change constantly...anyone who has lived in the city has gone through that. In this movie, we see Katya's great heart that is only covered up her desire to climb the corporate ladder. We see Katya's desire for the "perfect" man interfere with her career goals. Watch the movie to find out how she resolves the conflict. I hope JLH explores her full range of acting ability and singing ability both of which are proved in this film. I have great hopes for the Ghost Whisperer on CBS this fall.

With me and a friend having enjoyed Heartbreakers,when we saw this on DVD for one pound,i thought it was worth a try.And while Hewitt does a very good performance,the film feels very empty. The Plot: Hewitt plays Katya Livingstton.A woman who works very high-up in a major advertising company.She finds out that there is a "Party of the year" coming up and the show is not on the guest list!(The might be due to ruining a wedding by letting a newly married couples husband put his head up her skirt!)So Katya feels that she must do everything she can to get an invite.But when she meets the man of her dreams,she has to decided if the man means More to her than the party.. View on the film: The best part of the film is Hewitts performance.She does a very good job at being seen as a very mean woman,while saying some biting lines("My boyfriend was an Ewok in Star Wars!)The screenplay is by Eric Charmelo and Nicole Snyder,and the thing the ruins the film is that they make Katya look so rich,the you really don't care if she picks the party or the guy.Because there is no realness to her (eg:Bridget Jones)so it just makes you feel that she can just buy anything and any one from a high-street shop. Final view on the film: A very good performance by Hewitt,thats badly let down by a very hollow plot.

My daughter's dad, Peter Anthony Abrahams, was in the bunny suit. I have JLH's autograph to prove it! I think because there was a similarly listed performer, the picked the wrong person. I remember being so jealous, pregnant at the time, that she was in lingerie and rubbing all over him!! Glad she's a nice person :-) I enjoyed the movie, it was fluffy fun. I hope JLH comes back to our island for more work. It was exciting for us all, as she was a gave of mine from TV. I think movie makers should seriously reconsider such lengthy movie titles.

Jennifer Love Hewitt has always been the beautiful face I looked when watching an episode of the Drama Ghost Whisperer and the lady I always thought was never the greatest actress, but an actress with large potential in some projects. This is not one of them. Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber not only makes up it's own words, but pretty much uses every character/plot point we've seen in a Romantic Comedy, a straight forward Comedy, or a plain Drama. Her character is not only impossible to like, but also a bore and a plain drag to see on screen. Being a TV movie with the minimum length requirement of 85 minutes I thought to myself not to approach this movie in a hard way, but I have too. Its horrible and a dread to watch. While trying to be funny, it fails, and while trying to be smart, it's dumb. It can never be what it wants. Every character in this movie is a one dimensional mess who was taken straight out of another movie. Jennifer Love Hewitt's character makes you feel you're losing brain cells every time she comes on screen and her over the top, Prima Donna attitude gets incredibly annoying and almost makes it hard to concentrate. While the story is majorly cliché, so is, well, everything else in this jumbled up mess of a movie. Airing on Oxygen, this movie is clear not to have a big budget, but even lower budget films can do better than this. Confessions prove even TV films are less tolerable than bad mainstream ones. Katya Livingston (Hewitt) is an unlikable Prima Donna who has everything anybody could want, but she still wants more. After hearing about a party that "anybody who's anybody will be at" she can't resist but to somehow bumble her way and show some cleavage to get an invite. She pesters everyone and sucks up to anybody who can get her one step closer to the golden key invite to the party. In the meantime, she slacks on her job as an advertising executive promoting different shampoo products and currently promoting on "The San Francisco Treat" Rice-a-Roni. She loses touch on that to become more focused on her "current dream" of getting the invite. The "spoiled bitch" attitude gets old and tiresome. When making the protagonist unlikable the whole film and even when giving an apology to people she's hurt, still makes her the most hated person on the screen, its a wonder why we should focus or even give the slightest damn why she's in her position. Why do we care about some "I'm so pretty, you can't get me!" girl when one of the other characters could have had a better movie. Jennifer Love Hewitt's role is lackluster beyond belief making it a wonder why someone of her talent was chosen to play such a low grade, zero part. There isn't a ton to say about Confessions other than it's a lame, Oxygen TV film. Just because this one has no attract factor doesn't mean other TV films are the same. Lifetime originals like Lost Holiday: The Jim & Suzanne Shemwell Story and Girl, Positive are some of my favorites as far as Television films go and those are so well written they should have been in theaters. Confessions is a bitter movie with low grade acting and a story line to wake the dead. A stuck up girl who for once in a life can't have something she wants? We haven't seen that before, oh no! Starring: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Colin Ferguson, Natassia Malthe, Joseph Lawrence, and James Kirk. Directed by: Dana Lustig.

SPOILERS THROUGH: I didn't much like this one even though Love-Hewett shines as the social climbing Katya. I think the movie had it's moments but by and large it doesn't take itself seriously through most of it and takes itself to seriously at the end. The result is a movie that maybe moderately fun to watch at times, but doesn't ever rise to being really good, mainly because it's trying to be all things(satire, comedy, romance.) I wish it had chosen a direction and stuck to it. One of the things I really disliked is the whole adopt a child story. This is by and large a comedy and that seems to serious a subject to bring into a comedy/satire. It was rather baffling. Then there's the movie's comedy overall. The comedic aspects of this movie weren't really all that funny, in fact there was some gross stuff, and many an obnoxious moment as well. One gets the feeling this movie really wanted to be a clever satire on the rich and privileged but it never really becomes original and in a movie like this originality would have been welcomed. I was actually wincing at times, there were a lot of predictable jokes and the humor at many times, fell flat. The romantic part of the movie didn't make a whole lot of sense since it happened so abruptly and was rather unbelievable but by this point much of the movie is unbelievable so you kind of go with it. Plus, one positive is the two romantic leads do actually have oodles of chemistry and that helps the story. The speech at the end can be predicted. This is the kind of movie that one might respond to the ending but think "cmon!!" at the same time. Also not much is done with the supporting cast. There's a whole array of fun sassy characters who it would have been fun to see developed and given some type of storyline. Everyone exists as Love-Hewit's costars but Hewitt herself doesn't have a lot to do at first except stomp around buying things and annoying people. So, for me anyway, there's a lot about this movie that fell flat. That being said, it's still watchable and has some cute moments. But it isn't a movie I'd recommend or say is a must see. I'm always up for satires and comedies but this one didn't quite do it for me. Cheers for Hewitt though, she always rocks! My vote's around 5 out of 10.

Confessions seemed like a cute little chick flick based on a best selling novel so I gave it a try along with my beautiful girlfriend Sarah. We were both pleasantly surprised in the humorous and well performed low budget TV Film that I think could have easily been released theatrically without many changes at all. It far exceeded some of the other crap I've seen make it to theaters. I have no doubt that part of the film's charm and the reason why it works is female director Dana Lustig. Most certainly a male director could not have pulled off the same level of humor and content that Lustig manages. Definitely made with women in mind, I still enjoyed the humor of a woman who is more or less the most imperfect human being on the planet and gets what's coming to her while still becoming the hero in the end. Jennifer Love Hewitt is nearly astonishing as the delightfully horrible Katya Livingston. She's shallow, materialistic, self-involved, and not to mention a liar, thief and flakey. Not many take to her with the exception of her gay best friend. This is Hewitt's best role to date I think. She manages to be completely horrible to everyone and yet still be the heroine that you feel sorry for and root for. Colin Ferguson plays her love interest, her love god, Charles Fitz. If nothing else he's any woman's dream man. He's good looking, romantic, sentimental, and sensitive. His performance is good but not stand out. He's more there to be a pretty face and certainly accomplishes that. His chemistry with Hewitt and her character is very good which is something considering how awful her character is. Another surprise and stand out performance is the long missing return of none other than Joey...I mean...Joseph Lawrence...WHOA!! Lawrence plays Hewitt's gay best friend who is searching for love, Ferguson. Although his role is very small he plays gay very well (yes that's a compliment.) This is his best role possibly ever as well. Hewitt and Lawrence have great chemistry as well and he is comedy relief as well. Character actor Daniel Roebuck is great as Hewitt's boss and Sonja Bennett also does a good job in her small role as Eliza, Hewitt's other best friend and co-worker. The combination of a fun cast that really work well together and a good story that is also tons of fun makes this a nice little TV treat. It won't blow you away but it's fun and it'll surprise you with it's cute little characters. I think I would love to see Hewitt reprise this role again, in fact I think a TV Series or film series would be very profitable. The film is a little bit tasteless and dips into sexual promiscuity and really for Hewitt's character to find redemption is pretty far fetched but it's still worth seeing, especially if you've read the book because I would think it's a worthy follow up to reading the novel. 7/10

I usually detest Jennifer Love Hewitt. Especially after the horrid "The Truth About Love" which I (very unfortunately) happened to watch. But I must say I was pleasantly surprised by Ms Hewitt in this movie. It wasn't so bad, and in fact, was pretty good if I might add. The movie doesn't make any pretensions about what it's supposed to be i.e. a good, funny, light-hearted piece of fluff. Didn't feel like a made-for-TV movie at all too. I watched it when I was feeling kinda down and it actually did the trick. Watch it for the air-headed humor, JLH's wardrobe (which fully capitalised on her "bosom buddies", as always), and the zippy dialog. Oh..and the scene at the fountain with Katya and Charles was really really sweet. Rather believable too. Now, if only I can be as witty as Katya Livingston when I'm sitting at the fountain, munching on a hot dog with my ultimate dream guy......

Well, let us at least be thankful for: (a) JLH's very attractive haircut - long, fringed across the brow. (As compared to "If Only", and "The Truth above Love", q.v.) (b) Having been shown on Cable TV, (I don't remember if this one was released or not), one presumes a DVD will be available in a few weeks. This is an old plot, bad scheming professional girl in NYC repents, makes a public confession and regains boyfriend. I'm not sure a script like Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride or Notting Hill would do any good for JLH. (Like Julianne Nicholson, JLH is - at least for another decade - irretrievably the All-American girl next door, cheerful, healthy, etc - for both, incursions into any exotic sexual area don't quite come off). It's possible that JLH (or advisers) have chosen the best possible route for her; the next big test will be the NBC series in Sept. '05. But even if that fails, JLH has a clear niche based on a world-wide fan-base, and low-cost (one presumes) or foreign production romantic movies (not perhaps Comedy like the Tuxedo) which she can now demonstrably sustain alone without any other star. Can Sara Michelle Geller do that? JLH is in the same category as Julianne -- foreigners (Eur. and Oriental) rave about them, cannot understand why they are not big stars.

This may count as a spoiler, as some people may wish to watch a film before taking any opinion on it, but i feel i have to announce to the world that this is the worst film i have ever watched. The beginning is odd, to say the least, it's stretched, unfunny, copied and poorly written. The middle, if there is one, is of the story of a social climber, however, the lady in question, is already at the top of her social ladder- so why sis this film so called?. the ending, well the ending is pure drivel. The acting throughout is nothing better than one would expect from a school production. Continuously and unbelievably contrived. Its predictable, and was so badly produced i think it gave me ulcers. Does anyone agree? I don't see how anyone cannot.