Shopgirl (2005)
In a nutshell: Mirabelle (Claire Danes) is a lonely transplant from the northeast trying to make a go of it as an artist in L.A. She spends the daylight hours as a clerk in the glove department at Saks and it looks like a place where every minute would stretch into an eternity. She meets a slacker at a laundromat and, despite a disastrous first date, later calls him up in a fit of sexual desperation. Then suave, older guy sets his sights on her and she's swept away into a world of gifts and attention, though not affection. If these were my only two choices for heterosexual relations, I'd become a lesbian right quick. Danes is tremendously affecting and believable, but she's stranded by a mean script just brimming with contrivance.
I've heard that this story was based on events in Martin's own life. If that's true, I don't like him.
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