Shopgirl is a 2005 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Anand Tucker and starring Steve Martin, Claire Danes, and Jason Schwartzman.

The film grossed $11.7 million worldwide and was nominated for four Satellite Awards, including Best Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Mirabelle Buttersfield is a young aspiring artist from Vermont who works behind the women's glove counter at Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills.

Jeremy is an immature, socially inept, penniless graphic designer for an amplifier manufacturer and an aspiring typographer who meets Mirabelle in a laundromat.

Mirabelle, aching for a meaningful connection, gives Jeremy a chance, but she soon loses interest in him after an awkward first date, followed by a failed attempt at intercourse.

Early in his career, he lost a girlfriend to an older, suave gentleman resembling Ray Porter, real-life Mason Williams.

After auditioning numerous actresses, he knew Claire Danes was perfect for the role of Mirabelle as soon as she began reading lines with Martin.

Both "Carry Me Ohio" and "Lily and Parrots" were tracks on Ghosts of the Great Highway, the first CD released by Kozelek's real-life band Sun Kil Moon.

"Make Like Paper" was a track from Songs for a Blue Guitar, an album by Kozelek's earlier band Red House Painters.

[7] In his review for The New York Times, A. O. Scott called the film "elegant and exquisitely tailored ... both funny and sweetly sad" and added, "[It] is a resolutely small movie, finely made and perhaps a bit fragile.

Under the pressure of too much thought, it might buckle and splinter; the characters might look flimsy, their comings and goings too neatly engineered, their lovability assumed rather than proven.

"[2] Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle described it as "a film of wisdom, emotional subtlety and power ... directed with a rare combination of delicacy and decisiveness.

"[8] In Variety, Joe Leydon observed, "Martin hits all the right notes while subtly conveying both the appealing sophistication and the purposeful reserve of Ray.

"[11] Steve Persall of the St. Petersburg Times graded the film C and called it "too slight to be considered a movie yet padded enough to pose as a feature-length work ...

"[12] In New York, Ken Tucker stated, "The challenge of the movie consists of making you believe that these two people, separated by age and status, could fall in love.

Shopgirl succeeds in this with a confidence so sure and serene that you feel through much of the movie as though you’re listening to a fairy tale, an effect enhanced by the voice-over narration provided in soothing tones by Martin-as-Ray.

"[13] Susan Wloszczyna of USA Today said, "A serene luminescence surrounds Claire Danes [who]—reduced of late to action drivel (Terminator 3) or bit roles (The Hours)—finally fulfills the potent promise of her mid-90s TV series My So-Called Life.

When director Anand Tucker isn't training his camera on the jewel-like traffic lights below or the sparkling cosmos above, he portrays the City of Angels as a haven of spare elegance and urbane stylishness, as if it were Woody Allen's Manhattan but with better weather and inviting outdoor pools.