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6.9/10 • 1.3K

2007-01-171h 42m

DramaComedyRomance

Sometimes love is hiding between the seconds of your life.

After a painful breakup, Ben develops insomnia. To kill time, he starts working the late night shift at the local supermarket, where his artistic imagination runs wild.

Directors
Sean Ellis
Editors
Scott Thomas

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  1. Sean Biggerstaff

    Sean Biggerstaff

    Ben Willis

  2. Emilia Fox

    Emilia Fox

    Sharon Pintey

  3. Shaun Evans

    Shaun Evans

    Sean Higgins

  4. Michael Dixon

    Michael Dixon

    Barry Brickman

  5. Michelle Ryan

    Michelle Ryan

    Suzy

  6. Stuart Goodwin

    Stuart Goodwin

    Jenkins

  7. Frank Hesketh

    Frank Hesketh

    Young Ben Willis

  8. Daphne Guinness

    Daphne Guinness

    Anna Shapiro

  9. Jay Bowen

    Jay Bowen

    Steve Jenkins

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CinemaSerf

Aug 10, 2024

6/10

Hmmm. I'm not sure that Sean Ellis's 2004 short film really needed expanding upon, but at least he did manage to reunite Sean Biggerstaff and Emelia Fox to tell this extended tale of "Ben". He's an art student who has recently been dumped by his girlfriend and finds himself unable to sleep. His solution - a night time job in a supermarket where he has an opportunity to ogle a variety of beautiful women. Then something miraculous happens. No - not a wet dream, he discovers that by cracking his fingers he can freeze time. All of the customers in his shop becomes statuesque. Now this is just too good an opportunity for our frustrated sketcher, so he wanders around finding the prettiest then exposes their breasts or their butts so he can draw them. Meantime, back in the real world his love life is going from bad to worse; his best mate "Sean" (Sean Higgins) isn't proving much use and his colleagues at work just love a lame prank to wind up the boss "Jenkins" (Stuart Goodwin) who just happens to be the elder brother of the guy his girlfriend dumped him for. Now there might be two schools of thought about this being either a darkly comedic look at art and artistry, or just a prurient exercise in excessive female (only) nudity. I'm not sure I cared though because I found this film to be glacially paced and just plain dull. The narration, provided by the nondescript Biggerstaff vacillated from the self-indulgent to the downright boring and the writing makes no effort to ingratiate this introspectively hormonal voyeur with anyone watching. It's not erotic, it's not sexy - it's remarkably sterile.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
$2,300,000.00
Keywords
night shiftlondon, englandsupermarketboredompaintinginsomniatimeart schoolsexual fantasymemorysexual attractionbreak-uparttime freeze first kissmagic realismex-boyfriend ex-girlfriend relationshipduringcreditsstingerbased on short