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Cashback (2007)

★ 7.0 · 1,382 ratings on TMDB

Sometimes love is hiding between the seconds of your life.

Cashback poster★ 7.0

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.

DirectorSean Ellis
CastDaphne Guinness, Emilia Fox, Frank Hesketh, Irene Bagach, Jay Bowen, Michael Dixon
GenresComedy, Drama, Romance
The emergence reading

Cashback keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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