Rosalie Goes Shopping

Rosalie Goes Shopping is a 1989 English-language West 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 (Liebling), who works as a crop-duster airplane pilot.

Every day she goes on lavish shopping sprees in the nearby small town of Stuttgart (the same name of her hometown in West 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.

After first using the computer for some Internet and Prodigy surfing skills, Rosalie gets an inspiration when she has a talk with her friendly mailman, where after she confides in him about her financial predicament, he tells her: "when you're $100,000 in debt, it's your problem.

Impersonating a wealthy German businesswoman, Rosalie travels to the state capital of Little Rock and meets with a bank president for a large loan to open a new multinational corporation which she receives due to her falsified credentials she forged.

The Deseret News described it as "dark satire masquerading as bright comedy", acknowledging it as a comment on American consumerism, and praised Sägebrecht's "terrific comic talents".

Marianne Sägebrecht, star of Rosalie Goes Shopping