Time Flies! Joan Cusack Signs On To Play Isla Fisher's Mom

Joan Cusack and John Goodman have joined the cast of Touchstone Pictures' "Confessions of a Shopaholic." Isla Fisher has already boarded the comedy as the star.

Film is based on the bestselling Sophie Kinsella novel, which centers on a woman who must deal with the stresses of mounting credit card debt while trying to navigate the New York magazine world. Goodman and Cusack will play the parents of Fisher's character. Hugh Dancy and Krysten Ritter also star.

P.J. Hogan is directing, and Jerry Bruckheimer produces. Film is lensing in New York and Connecticut.

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(Fisher, best known as the scene stealer in "Wedding Crashers" and fiancee of Sacha "Borat" Baron Cohen, is 32 and Joan Cusack is 45)

Comments

[lillianjane]

Hollywood casting regs:

Woman under 40: leading lady to man up to age dead
Woman over 40: Someone's mother. Anyone's mother. Over 40 all the same.

[Dantana]

Joanie was great as the geeky girl with the halo in Sixteen Candles. Guess we're all getting old.

[gerontion72]

Fisher is 32? She looks about 22.

[Grulg]

Wow. That makes her look OLD. Shoot! she was quite cute back in the 80s and 90's in Adams Family II and that Big Business thing she did w/ Harrison Ford.