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Cashback [2006]


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Amazon.co.uk Review

A slight but likable British comedy-fantasy with a touch of naughtiness, Cashback is an expanded version of director Sean Ellis' Oscar-nominated short film of the same name about a bored supermarket clerk who discovers that he has the ability to stop time. Sean Biggerstaff (from the Harry Potter franchise) is Ben, a lovelorn young man whose chronic insomnia (due to a bad breakup) forces him to bury himself in pointless and repetitive work at a local grocery store. Once there, boredom causes him to believe that he can stop time, and he enjoys long and languid fantasies about undressing and sketching the female shoppers. But reality intrudes in the form of recollections of his troubled past, as well as the lovely presence of fellow clerk Sharon (Emilia Fox), who offers the promise of love in the real world. A gentle and artfully directed independent film, Cashback doesn't run very deep in terms of emotion, but the special effects are clever, the cast quirky and amusing, and its premise is an appealing mix of softcore reverie and boyish longing. --Paul Gaita


A Feelgood Movie
Review date: 2008-11-11 Rating: 10 out of 10

Unlike JrHartley one of the other reviewers here, I found this movie to have all the things I want from something that will entertain me for a hour and half. It is comedic with fantasy and a romantic element. The soundtrack works very well in the movie and I found myself digging out Frankie goe's to hollywood's "The power of Love" for another listen after seeing it used to such good effect here. I love this movie, in the same way I loved Jimmy stewart in "its a wonderful life" or David Niven in "a Matter of life or death" or even Amalie. Its a wonderful movie that takes you away from your troubles and stress for a while. Oh and I am not a teenager, just someone who loves the ood movie with no explicit sex, volence, swearing and a happy ending. Be a romantic fool and treat yourself to something that will make you feel happier after watching.



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Above average British film
Review date: 2008-09-21 Rating: 8 out of 10

Cashback initially looks like a carbon copy of Saul Metzstein's 2001 film 'Late Night Shopping', ie supermarket nightshift workers and how acute tedium can be recreational and deadly. But it gets its surprise on with gusto. It takes the theme of chump change job working boredom to a place that Fight Club touches on, except that rather than multiple personalities being formed, reality itself is divided between real time and stopped time.

I'm kinda surprised Saino's let the filmmakers use not just one of their shops for the film, but their brand name too, mentioned more than once in dialogue and seen on worker induction literature in the interview scene. Although having seen a television documentary about Saino's when (then) chief executive Dino Adriano had to do a nightshift at one of the shops (grim: staff weren't allowed to talk to each other), this is probably quite good product placement, in terms of it being a 'fun' place to work.

All in all - a good film and commendable in that it's by a writer-director and doesn't fall into the usual debut writer-director trap of self indulgence (Squid & The Whale, 16 Years of Alcohol etc etc).

And respect to Emilia Fox and Sean Biggerstaff for what they did on this film - cos no matter how much directional pyrotechnics a film has, it's only as good as its actors.








a great old fashioned romantic comedy - charming!
Review date: 2008-09-16 Rating: 10 out of 10

ok i have reason to be biased.. i fell in love with the script of this move over 4 years ago. why aren't more movies made like this anymore? movies which make you feel good, movies which make you appreciate the world around you and the people you love?

well.. for those who dislike the nudity, thought it was perverted or plot-less.. sorry but i disagree.. anyone that doesn't go for the alien vs predator 5 movie genre will enjoy this.. so please, enjoy at your leisure

imagination, dreams, romance, fantasy - this is what movies are all about

A very original, witty, interesting film
Review date: 2008-09-03 Rating: 10 out of 10

I really enjoyed this film. It did remind me of Clerks vaguely. But I thought overall that it was a witty, thoughtful, original and interesting story.

It is really hard to talk about this film and recommend it to people when you describe the main character can freeze time and when he does this he undressed and then draws the female customers of his supermarket, plus gets revenge on his night manager. But despite this dodgy sounding idea it works, and is hugely enjoyable. Check out the great Cashback film website too.

Watch and enjoy

"there is an art to putting your mind somewhere else whilst the seconds slowly tick away..."
Review date: 2008-08-11 Rating: 2 out of 10

Tedious and genre-confused film about an art student who's split up with his girlfriend and is moping around not able to sleep because of it. He gets a job in Sainsbury's at night to pass his time, where he imagines time stopping to be able to disrobe the (young, nubile, attractive) female customers to sketch them. The rest of the film seems just to be pithy padding to justify the DVD cover image scene.

In the "Clerks" vein, this film appears quite pleased with itself - it has huge delusions of its own production brilliance (music video style transitions, verbose narration), insight and art-house / cult credentials - whilst simultaneously aspiring towards "American Beauty" in its purported focus on the beauty in the everyday, cross-fertilised with "Human Traffic's" hedonistic, nihilist zeitgeist.

In reality, it's just an irrelevant, ponderous, monotonous, first-person pretentious narrative, teenage-angst-ridden movie incorporating some cheap titillation masquerading as `the appreciation of the female form'. Sadly it's not even faintly amusing with it. The target audience for a movie of such superficiality is probably boys in their early teens.

Product Details/Specifications


Actor(s):
Sean Biggerstaff
Michael Dixon
Michelle Ryan
Emilia Fox
Shaun Evans

Creators:
Sean Biggerstaff (Primary Contributor)
Emilia Fox (Primary Contributor)

Director(s):

Recording label: Universal Pictures UK
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
EAN: 5050582568325
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL,
Release date: 2008-09-01
Audience rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 98 minutes
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: French (Original Language)

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