...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.
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07/20/07
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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Reviews for Cashback
Funny but not really profound.
07/20/07
A flair for language both cinematic and verbal elevates an ordinary coming-of-age comedy of little substance.
07/20/07
Cashback remains a striking cinematic debut for Ellis and a fluid detour into the hidden pockets of the mind.
07/19/07
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 very romantic portrait of a young artist as he ponders love, beauty and living in the moment.
07/19/07
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
A sleek little meditation on beauty, desire, love and time. Now and then, it's fairly sophisticated stuff.
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 CriticOffers 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
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 CriticThere's a lot of promise here, but Cashback can't get out of its own way.
07/19/07
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
Somehow, Ellis manages to combine a Gen-X slacker film with a touching coming-of-age movie... and it works.
07/17/07
Wong 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 CriticGuaranteed to be a hit with onanistic adolescent boys blinded by raging hormones.
07/16/07
...heralds the arrival of a fiercely original cinematic presence.
07/16/07
If 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
This inert movie, in the style of early sitcom, fails the first test by having its central character as the least interesting of all the ones on the screen.
07/14/07
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