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07/13/07
Cashback (2007)
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Reviews Counted:48
Fresh:23
Rotten:25
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: An unlikable protagonist, messy editing, and gratuitous nudity might make audiences ask for their cash back.
Theatrical Release:Jul 20, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: When art student Ben Willis is dumped by his girlfriend Suzy, he develops insomnia. To pass the long hours of the night, he starts working the late night shift at the local supermarket. There he... [More]
Starring: Sean Biggerstaff, Emilia Fox, Shaun Evans, Michelle Ryan
Director: Sean Ellis
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10/18/08
The feature version of a 2004 award-winning British short depicts a sensitive art student who manages to freeze time, allowing him to undress women at his Sainsbury's supermarket and sketch them nude.
09/23/06
Certain shots evidence Ellis' skill at composing static images, but his messy staging of a soccer game, a painful piece of failed slapstick, proves he has not quite arrived as a feature film director.
07/19/07
A good writer starts with characters and plot and allows the themes to come naturally from the story. Sean Ellis' script for Cashback is all theme, and it's not that interesting a one to begin with.
07/28/07
Ellis has expanded Cashback into a full-length movie that shares the short's strengths but doesn't come up with anything new.
07/19/07
It's awkwardly drawn out to feature length with not-truly-comic secondary characters on the supermarket team, and go-nowhere incidents like a soccer match with a rival store and an unresolved encounter with another time-stopper.
07/19/07
Cashback springs from that childhood fantasy of being able to stop time and wander freely among the temporarily frozen. If only writer-director Sean Ellis had done more than use the conceit for a functional romance.
07/19/07
Top CriticIf they taught the film in schools, the class might be dubbed The Art of Boosting the Self and Ragging on Women Through Tired Aesthetics.
07/15/07
Isn't nearly as good as Ellis' original short, being little more than a series of vignettes masquerading as a feature film.
07/18/07
[Director] Ellis has rounded up all the actors for this feature adaptation but doesn't add much to the 18-minute original besides a tedious boy-meets-girl.
07/20/07
How ironic that Richard Lester had to go all the way to England to make that chef-d'oeuvre of sex comedies, The Knack... and How to Get It, while Ellis stays home and churns out the British answer to American Pie.
07/19/07
Top CriticApparently unsure whether to make an arty romantic fantasy à la Amelie or something that might go down better with the readers of FHM, British first-timer Sean Ellis tries to do both.
09/23/06
Funny but not really profound.
07/20/07
note to next short-turn-feature film director: please, please, pretty please, don't stretch the hell out of your beautiful short when you don't have enough stuff to make it to full length, no matter how pretty you can make it look
06/07/07
...focuses on a pervert who thinks he's a romantic. The more sincere this guy gets about his leering, the more he creeps you out.
07/20/07
Would that the plotline came up to the poster's level of intriguing suggestiveness.
07/11/07
The film lags badly in the middle; the flashbacks to Ben's childhood aren't especially interesting and the lengthy soccer sequence is sheer dead weight.
07/20/07
Offers such a 13-year-old boy's perspective on love and sex that you wouldn't even trust it to unhook a bra.
07/19/07
Beware films with protagonists depicted as vastly more sensitive than their fellow characters. The result may be a crock like Cashback.
07/20/07
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