Rent Cashback (2006)
3.2 of 5 from 150 ratings
1h 38min
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- Synopsis:
After being dumped by his girlfriend (Michelle Ryan), art student Ben Willis (Sean Biggerstaff) develops chronic insomnia. Finding himself with too much time on his hands, Ben begins working the night shift at the local supermarket. There Ben begins to imagine he can freeze time and uses his "ability" to undress and sketch the female customers in the nude. Ben is occasionally distracted from his fantasy by his unconventional yet hilarious co-workers, who introduce him to their inventive antics of losing time to survive the boredom of the graveyard shift, but it is quiet check-out girl Sharon (Emilia Fox) who catches his attention and she soon becomes the object of his fantasies. Written and directed by Sean Ellis, Cashback unveils a world where reality and fantasy blur and love and beauty are realised in the most unusual places. - Actors:
- Michelle Ryan, Sean Biggerstaff, Erica Ellis, Jay Bowen, Shaun Evans, Kenneth Fahy, Stan Ellis, Katie Ball, Emilia Fox, Stuart Goodwin, Celesta Hodge, Nia Roberts, Michael Dixon, Michael Lambourne, Hatti Riemer, Kinvara Balfour, Cherie Nichole, Winnie Li, Lene Bausager, Irene Bagach
- Directors:
- Sean Ellis
- Writers:
- Sean Ellis
- Studio:
- Universal Pictures
- Genres:
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- Not released
- Run Time:
- 100 minutes
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Reviews (3) of Cashback
Worth a watch - Cashback review by CP Customer
First off, I enjoyed the film more than I expected. A young art student breaks up with his girlfriend because he feels he won't make her happy, as a result, he suffers from insomnia and gets a job at a local supermarket to kill time and pursue his 'art' to celebrate? the the female form (and this perhaps is where the film feels a little more like one for the boys). Here he not only falls for the beautiful Sharon (Emilia Fox) but retreats into his imagination to freeze moments in time. There are numerous scenes of female nudity but I felt at least they were not gratuitous and there were some genuine funny moments. Overall a very enjoyable low budget movie.
2 out of 2 members found this review helpful.
sub teenage comedy drama - Cashback review by CP Customer
This film is trying very hard to be a cult classic and technically it is very slick and film-literate, but it is very obviously written and directed by the same person, a man who has not managed to advance beyond a teenage view of women. It is about an art student who we are supposed to empathise with because he has chosen to end his relationship with super hot babe and she got angry with him. To cut a long story short he fantasises about all the women he sees being naked and the film never questions the need to show us these fantasies. The script is dire, the female characters one dimensional and the plot can be seen coming a mile off.Really, don't bother. Two hours long for one funny moment
1 out of 3 members found this review helpful.
Clichéd RomCom - Cashback review by GI
A sexual awakening comedy that suffers from clichéd and stupid characters and just not really being very funny although it has some interesting things to say about break ups and finding love. It's a sort of romcom with a fantasy edge to it that doesn't really work in trying to say that we should all savour every moment of our lives. There's certainly a lot of nudity but this seems there to mainly allow the stupid boy characters to leer childlike at the female form. Ben (Sean Biggerstaff) is an art student who splits from his girlfriend and in his difficulty in dealing with this becomes an insomniac. Taking a night shift job at a local supermarket he has to contend with his stupid male boss and colleagues but falls for the dreamy check out girl, Sharon (Emilia Fox). There's nothing really new here, in fact most of it has been done far better in other films. There's even a 'comedy' five-a-side football match that attempts to copy the one in Trainspotting (1996) but here it's cringeworthy and predictable and very unfunny. Average stuff, watched and forgotten.
0 out of 0 members found this review helpful.