The film gained some degree of notoriety because of its "extreme" nudity - full-frontal shots of women posed in grocery store aisles while frozen in time. In 2004, Ellis made an Oscar-nominated short called "Cashback" about the lives of grocery store workers. Cashback isn't daring or ambitious but, despite its uneven tone and occasional tendencies to meander, it is endearing. Along the way, women get naked, couples fall in love, and teams lose pickup soccer games 26-to-nothing. For his feature debut, Sean Ellis has crafted a delightful romantic comedy that provides insight into the heart of a painter and the minds of those trapped working the graveyard shift at a 24-hour supermarket. The way Cashback gently plays with reality tickles the memory with distant echoes of Big Fish and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
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