After eying this movie at the local library, I thought I'd rent it. The set up sounded interesting, and My cousin lives in Glasgow. It was very well done, the acting believable so the workers who watch this movie will relate, the set ups are funny like when one person car has a bad radio station playing only bad 80's love songs, which in the end is works like normal. And it's also got some sad moments like when a senior worker gets a heart attack, and the pain of being cheated on. Plus it has wit and sarcasm.And Each of the friends managing their jobs is just painful but fun, and makes you maybe want a night shift job. Definitely a film not to miss. So check this movie out at a video store. You will love it. Ben

A group of night shift workers get to know each other every night when they come together from their various jobs to have some breakfast in a diner before coming home to sleep. Vincent is a supermarket worker who fills his time by seducing women, sleeping with them a few times then breaking up. Lenny is a telephone operator who desires the woman across the room from him but has porno reactions to women face to face. Jody works in a factory but hates her job and feels out of the loop with the men. Sean is a hospital worker who lives with his girlfriend - but she works days and he can't even be sure that she even still lives in the same house as him.I read the awful review on the front page and was wondering if I should bother watching this despite having taped it. I'm glad I ignored the views of that reviewer because this film was quite enjoyable. Yes, the plot is rather laboured towards the end and requires a whole range of coincidences to get where it wants to go, but it is still quite fun. The main reason it works is that it is quite sparky with dialogue that is a sort of polished version of the stuff you talk to your mates about! It will never win writing awards, but it is fun and occasionally quite witty.If you are expecting a very serious drama that engages you and is very intense then you'll be annoyed by just how banal it will seem to you. However I saw it as the equivalent of background music - it isn't very demanding and it is best enjoyed just running in the semi-background where you're not totally concentrating on it but doing enough to hear it and follow it along. It is best at the start where the friends banter and talk rubbish - although they are maybe a bit too sparky for people who work nights all the time!Lance is a good actor (Book Group & Teachers) and he is a fun character here who has lots of good dialogue. Woolfson looks a bit dippy and doesn't have as many good scenes as he has to carry the main narrative. Cilenti is very much a secondary character but is quirky enough to be funny. Ashfield is very cute and has some good lines but she feels like the token female character and doesn't have much to do.Despite it's weak plot and lack of real substance, it is still enjoyably light on it's feet. If you expect a film that will engross you then this film isn't it. If you're doing the ironing or something and want to have the telly on in the background then this is the perfect film - it's got spark and is quite fun to watch, even if you forget it not long after watching it.

I never heard about the movie when I decided to watch it. Wanted to know if I was in for a nice surprise. And i really was. I won't say the movie is a must-see, but it's a nice comedy with some original jokes. It's also an interesting look on the world that normal people always miss because they're asleep.The persons in the movie have a nice character and there will definitely be someone you can identify yourself with. Nice story, some good jokes, surprising plot. In short: 85 minutes of your life you absolutely could have spend worse.

My faith is slowly but surely being restored in the British film industry. It would seem that the steady tirade of shoddy Lock, Stock & Bridget Jones rip-off's is being offset by some nice low budget character driven pieces that are begging to be seen by a larger audience.Late Night Shopping is one such film. Yet to secure a release in the US, this is definitely a film to keep an eye out for.Saul Metzstein's debut feature is a glorious exploration of friendship and how we choose to spend our lives. The four main characters all work nightshifts and spend the time before and after work drinking coffee and talking about how they hate their jobs and lives in general. Lenny works in a directory enquiries call centre and has trouble speaking to women. Sean is a hospital porter who's girlfriend works a day shift, consequently he never sees her and wonders if she still stays with him. Vincent works in a supermarket and is a self-confessed womaniser who has a three strike rule. He will only sleep with a woman three times before he dumps them. Jody works for a computer components company and constantly feels left out by the three boys.The four talk and go about their dull, mundane existence. The film however is anything but mundane. The tight script from Jack Lothian sparkles with wit and charm and you grow attached to the characters and genuinely feel for them. The story doesn't fall into cheap clichés and keeps the viewer on it's toes, not rushing into any obvious or cheesy climaxes. In a welcome change of pace for recent British movie the film contains no violence and no drug-use. Sex is hinted at rather than shown and swearing is kept to a minimum.The movie was filmed in Glasgow and director Saul Metzstein does a bang up job off making the grey, gloomy city that I know look like a bustling, lively metropolis. In-fact If I didn't know it was filmed in Glasgow I would have a hard job recognising it, although I did spot a few places that I know.I'm not familiar with any of the actors from the film, but I was very impressed with the performances that they give. They really made me feel for them and I saw I bit of myself in each one (being a twentysomething loser in a dead-end job myself).Late Night Shopping is easily one of the best films to come out of Britain in a long time and demands to be seen by as many people as possible. 4/5