Cashback

"Sometimes love is hiding between the seconds of your life."

2007 1h 42m EN

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7.0

SOLID

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47%

ROTTEN

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METACRITIC

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7.1

IMDB

★7.0TMDB · 1,455🥫47%Rotten Tomatoes●54Metacritic★7.1IMDB · 94,291

DramaComedyRomance

Synopsis

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After a painful breakup, Ben develops insomnia. To kill time, he starts working the late night shift at the local supermarket, where his artistic imagination runs wild.

“Sometimes love is hiding between the seconds of your life.”

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Cast

Sean Biggerstaff
Ben Willis
Emilia Fox
Sharon Pintey
Shaun Evans
Sean Higgins
Michael Dixon
Barry Brickman
Michelle Ryan
Suzy
Stuart Goodwin
Jenkins
Frank Hesketh
Young Ben Willis
Daphne Guinness
Anna Shapiro

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Sean Ellis
Writers: Sean Ellis
Languages: English, Spanish
Countries: United Kingdom

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ERA

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Released 19 years ago.

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2 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Spanish.

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3 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Sean Ellis, shot by Angus Hudson. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Guy Farley. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Carlos Domeque shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Sean Biggerstaff and Emilia Fox and Shaun Evans carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Sometimes love is hiding between the seconds of your life.".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0460740 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Sean Ellis directs. Angus Hudson behind the camera. Guy Farley scores. Carlos Domeque cuts. Produced in United Kingdom. Dialogue in English, Spanish.

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Things worth knowing

1Released 19 years ago.
2Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Spanish.
3Directed by Sean Ellis, shot by Angus Hudson. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Guy Farley. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Carlos Domeque shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Sean Biggerstaff and Emilia Fox and Shaun Evans carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "Sometimes love is hiding between the seconds of your life.".
8IMDB entry: tt0460740 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Classified under 19 themes, including "night shift", "london, england", "supermarket", "boredom".
10Released under 20 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Angus Hudson
Original score: Guy Farley
Editing: Carlos Domeque
Production design: Morgan Kennedy
Costume design: Vicki Russell
Makeup / hair: Nikki Willemen
Sound: Paul Cotterell
Stunt coordinator: Tom Aitken
Runtime: 102 min · 1h 42m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Box office: $2,300,000
Original language: EN
IMDB: Cashback (2007)
Rotten Tomatoes: 47% 🥫 Rotten
Metacritic: 54/100
IMDB rating: 7.1/10 · 94,291 votes
MPAA: R

Awards

3 wins total

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CinemaSerf2024-08-10
★ 6/10
Hmmm. I'm not sure that Sean Ellis's 2004 short film really needed expanding upon, but at least he did manage to reunite Sean Biggerstaff and Emelia Fox to tell this extended tale of "Ben". He's an art student who has recently been dumped by his girlfriend and finds himself unable to sleep. His solution - a night time job in a supermarket where he has an opportunity to ogle a variety of beautiful women. Then something miraculous happens. No - not a wet dream, he discovers that by cracking his fingers he can freeze time. All of the customers in his shop becomes statuesque. Now this is just too good an opportunity for our frustrated sketcher, so he wanders around finding the prettiest then exposes their breasts or their butts so he can draw them. Meantime, back in the real world his love life is going from bad to worse; his best mate "Sean" (Sean Higgins) isn't proving much use and his colleagues at work just love a lame prank to wind up the boss "Jenkins" (Stuart Goodwin) who just happens to be the elder brother of the guy his girlfriend dumped him for. Now there might be two schools of thought about this being either a darkly comedic look at art and artistry, or just a prurient exercise in excessive female (only) nudity. I'm not sure I cared though because I found this film to be glacially paced and just plain dull. The narration, provided by the nondescript Biggerstaff vacillated from the self-indulgent to the downright boring and the writing makes no effort to ingratiate this introspectively hormonal voyeur with anyone watching. It's not erotic, it's not sexy - it's remarkably sterile.

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