![]() But she, too, has her own frustrations, as she struggles to make ends meet selling cosmetics and living with her mother. “You’re trying to replace what you lost with coupons,” her exasperated and unimpressed husband says.Ĭonnie’s neighbor and best friend JoJo Johnson (Kirby Howell-Baptiste) is outwardly energetic as well, as a seemingly confident and successful how-to-coupon YouTuber. She’s obsessive but unfulfilled, spending money just to save money, storing her products in the room that was meant to have been the nursery, for the baby she’s tried and failed to have. ![]() She’s outwardly chipper, but it turns out she’s in debt, struggling with infertility, and stuck in a loveless marriage to a husband who’s rarely home. Queenpins‘ Connie Kaminski, played by Kristen Bell, has the hard-luck story, the coupon-clipping and the giant stockpile – but is missing the happily ever after. TV’s extreme couponers shared their hard-luck stories, started clipping coupons, built up a giant stockpile of products they got for next to nothing, and lived happily ever after. In many ways, the movie is like a look into the lives of a couple of Extreme Couponing participants after the reality-show cameras stopped rolling. So those involved may be hoping that what some people hated about Extreme Couponing, they just might love about Queenpins. The movie, which opens in theaters Friday, is inspired by true events, but tells its own story. Queenpins, in contrast, is entertainment that doesn’t purport to portray reality. The show’s response was, essentially, “hey, that’s entertainment.” The savings – and the coupons – were often too good to be true, and some of the participants had a problematic backstory that was never acknowledged on screen. ![]() ![]() The over-the-top TV series Extreme Couponing rubbed many coupon users and industry professionals the wrong way, because it presented itself as reality, but was far from it. ![]()
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