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Cashback

Cashback

  • Status: Released
  • 17-01-2007
  • Runtime: 102 min
  • Score: 6.96
  • Vote count: 1318

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.

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

Jay Bowen

Steve Jenkins

Irene Bagach

Frozen Beautiful Girl

Kenneth Fahy

Art Class Life Model

Katie Ball

Art Class Girl

Erica Ellis

Canteen Lady

Marc Pickering

Brian 'Kung-Fu'

Jared Harris

Alex Proud

Nick Hancock

Rory Davies

Michael Lambourne

Matt Stephens

Stan Ellis

Art Class Teacher

Nia Roberts

Woman at the Till

Winnie Li

Betting Employee

Celesta Hodge

Deer Girl in Sainsbury's

Lene Bausager

Woman with Trolley

Hatti Riemer

Old Lady at Deli Counter

Kinvara Balfour

Shampoo / Frozen Girl 1

Cherie Nichole

Shampoo / Frozen Girl 2

Keeley Hazell

Frozen Girl in Sainsbury's

Nadia Alkhashab

Frozen Girl in Sainsbury's

Samantha Bloom

Mrs. Booth

Emilia Fenton

Tanya

Lucy Holt

Lucy at Proud Galleries

Janine-May Tinsley

Adult Natalie

Hayley-Marie Coppin

Swedish Student

Christine Fuller

Frozen Girl in Sainsbury's

Michelle Bentley

Nightclub Girl

Gary Beeson

Young Sean

Katarina Olsson

Sean's Mother

Gayle Dudley

Natalie's Mother

Nelly Lyster-Smith

Young Natalie

Henrietta Bess

Ben's Mother

Howard Ward

Football Referee

Roddy Adair

Sainsbury's Islington Footballer

Lee Wilson

Sainsbury's Islington Footballer

Wayne Ploughman

Sainsbury's Islington Footballer

Gary Mcnulty

Sainsbury's Islington Footballer

Natalie Denning

Busty Customer

Matthew Hodgson

'Spread Eagle' Barman

Tree Carr

'Spread Eagle' Girl

Katrine Falkenberg

Katrine at the Party

Graham Ward

Man with Dog

Kubrick Ellis

Dog

CinemaSerf

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.