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07/31/07
Cashback (2007)
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Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:10
Rotten:7
Average Rating:5.8/10
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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Reviews for Cashback
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Top CriticCashback aspires to be equal parts Volkswagen ad and Nicholson Baker's The Fermata, yet compares unfavorably to both.
07/25/07
Top CriticCashback is light, smart, and enjoyable, and it makes me eager to see what Ellis has planned for his next outing.
07/21/07
Top CriticImagine Kevin Smith with a background in poetry and painting instead of comic books and bestiality jokes, and you'll have an idea of what to expect from an exciting new filmmaker named Sean Ellis, whose terrific debut is called Cashback.
07/20/07
Top CriticIt's no small trick to blend fantasy, slapstick and genuine emotion, but [director] Ellis pulls it off with whimsy to spare.
07/20/07
Top CriticBeware films with protagonists depicted as vastly more sensitive than their fellow characters. The result may be a crock like Cashback.
07/20/07
Top Critic[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
Top CriticThe movie is lightweight, as it should be. It doesn't get all supercharged. Ben and Sharon, despite setbacks, are delighted to be admired by such wonderful partners, and we are happy for them.
07/20/07
Top CriticA flair for language both cinematic and verbal elevates an ordinary coming-of-age comedy of little substance.
07/20/07
Top CriticA very romantic portrait of a young artist as he ponders love, beauty and living in the moment.
07/19/07
Top CriticA sleek little meditation on beauty, desire, love and time. Now and then, it's fairly sophisticated stuff.
07/19/07
Top CriticIt'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
Top CriticCashback 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 CriticHow 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 CriticWong Kar-wai on aisle 4 and Michel Gondry on aisle 6, with Kevin Smith as mop jockey at all points in between -- such is the lost-in-the-supermarket milieu of writer-director Sean Ellis's whimsical comedy.
07/17/07
Top CriticThe 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
Top CriticSlickly charming, genteelly erotic and directed with supreme polish.
09/16/06
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