Cashback (2006)
workplace comedy
directed
by : Sean Ellis
featuring
: Sean Biggerstaff - Emilia Fox - Shaun Evans - Michelle Ryan - Stuart
Goodwin
running
time : 1 hour 42 minutes
A young insomniac attempts to cope with
his sleepless nights by taking a job at a local supermarket, only to discover
that he possesses a curious coping mechanism in the debut feature from
Academy-Award nominated filmmaker Sean Ellis. Ben (Sean Biggerstaff) has
recently been dumped by his girlfriend, and in his grief he has lost his
ability to sleep through the night. When Ben takes a job at the supermarket
and makes the acquaintance of an odd collection of individuals, including
silly slackers Barry (Michael Dixon) and Matt (Michael Lambourne) and aspiring
kung fu master Brian (Marc Pickering), he begins to find his imagination
taking flight in a most unusual manner. It seems that Ben has the ability
to literally stop time, a talent that allows him to take pause, traverse
the supermarket aisles, and ponder both his own life and the existence
of the customers who stand frozen and completely unaware of his presence.
As much a dreamer as Ben may be, however, his willingness to maintain his
connection to the tangible, if slightly antiseptic, world he currently
inhabits soon finds the wistful dreamer forming a close connection with
disarmingly straightforward checkout girl Emily (Emilia Fox), whose solid
ties to reality serve to offer a healthy contrast to the fantasy-prone
insomniac's surreal form of escapism.