Released in 2006, this is billed as romantic comedy. The male lead is a an art student who has just broken up with a girlfriend. The breakup was his own doing but leads to insomnia. In that situation, he decides to trade his extra time for money, taking night shift in the local grocery store. The grocery store is inhabited by a group of similar oddballs who in their boredom devise ways to pass the time, other than working that is. Ben Willis, being and art student, has a real love for the female form, he imagines that he can stop time and enjoy his unknowing models on his own terms. After a time Ben befriends a pretty female cash register worker. They start to date but are broken apart by a moment that was innocent but misunderstood.
He had fallen for her, but she is gone. In his pain he expresses in his art, pictures and sketches of Sharon. The art is so good, Ben gets a show in a gallery before he even graduates. Sharon comes to the show, learns of Ben's love by the focus of his subject, all of her, imagined from frozen moments. Sharon promises Ben she trusts him and he shows her how to freeze time. The end.
- Emilia Fox as Sharon Pintey, the object of Ben's attention. A really pretty girl she kind of reminds me of the woman in that old television show the Avengers.
- Sean Biggerstaff as Ben Willis, a part played in a low key approach that I really enjoyed. The young man looked really familiar and when I looked him up learned that he had been in the Harry Potter movies.
On the whole I really liked the movie and recommend it. If I had to characterize the movie I would call it a chick flick that has enough weirdness to keep the interest of men.
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