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Cashback
Magnolia Pictures
MPAA RATING: R for graphic nudity, sexual content and language
Starring
Sean Biggerstaff,
Emilia Fox,
Shaun Evans,
Michelle Ryan,
Stuart Goodwin,
Michael Dixon,
Michael Lambourne,
and
Marc Pickering
Based on the Oscar nominated short, Cashback is the tale of life on the graveyard shift at a supermarket. When a bad break-up leads to insomnia, art student Ben joins the nocturnal existence of a group of young grocers who indulge in the art of the imagination. As Ben learns to let his run free, he begins to see beauty in the ordinary as well as the possibility to love again.
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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Drama
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Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Sean Ellis
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Sean Ellis
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| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: July 20, 2007
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| RUNNING TIME: |
102 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
UK |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
80
Variety
Justin Chang
Slickly charming, genteelly erotic and directed with supreme polish, Cashback is a conventional romantic comedy that plays unconventional games with time and memory.

75
Chicago Tribune
Sid Smith
A modest but engaging film that mixes hormonal surges with art-house ingenuity.

75
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
It's no small trick to blend fantasy, slapstick and genuine emotion, but Ellis pulls it off with whimsy to spare.

75
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Imagine "Clerks" director 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.

75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
The film's structure is a little awkward, almost certainly as a result of its being expanded from 20 minutes to 97.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
A sleek little meditation on beauty, desire, love and time. Now and then, it's fairly sophisticated stuff.

70
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
Writer-director Sean Ellis more-or-less successfully expands his Academy Award-nominated 18-minute short to full length, showcasing his talented young cast to good effect.

63
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie is lightweight, as it should be.

60
Empire
Emily Phillips
Much more than a tits and arse farce, this is an enjoyable, if lightweight effort.

50
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Best known as a still photographer, Ellis has a powerful motif in the idea of stopping time, yet he can't seem to move his characters along.

50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bill White
With Biggerstaff's breathless narration explaining every detail of the action, Cashback seems aimed at an audience that would rather be told a story than shown a movie.

50
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Ellis' slight film has its charms, and the backstory he concocted to lead into the original 18-minute short is effective. But the film lags badly in the middle.

50
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
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.

50
Village Voice
Jim Ridley
The movie is too cute by half, made close to unbearable whenever Ben's narration spews glib pseudo-profundities about memory and temporal stillness. But the flaky humor of wage slaves serial-killing time is good, rude fun.

42
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
In short form, Cashback simply dealt with how a quirky group of supermarket employees whiled away the endless hours of a night shift, but the feature version spoils that economy by tacking on a romantic subplot and indulging its hero's precious ruminations on love and art.

40
The New York Times
Matt Zoller Seitz
Cashback suggests a “Malcolm in the Middle” episode directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The hero’s pained, hilarious childhood flashbacks deserve a much better movie.

25
Entertainment Weekly
Scott Brown
Director Sean Ellis has a lovely eye, but he's set the film in his blind spot. Not only can't he distinguish between art and porn, savoring and wallowing, universal truths and exhausted clichés -- he doesn't even seem interested in these distinctions.


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