Late Night Shopping

Late Night Shopping

Infobox_Film
name = Late Night Shopping


director = Saul Metzstein
producer = Leonard Crooks
writer = Jack Lothian
starring = Luke de Woolfson
James Lance
Kate Ashfield
Enzo Cilenti
released= 2001
runtime = 91 min.
language = English
imdb_id = 0250491
music = Alex Heffes|

"Late Night Shopping" (2001) is a comedy funded by FilmFour Productions. The film is about four young friends (Sean, Vincent, Jody and Lenny) who all work the graveyard shifts in various soul-killing jobs (the hospital, a supermarket, a factory and a call center, respectively) then meet up in a cafe after their shift to talk about nothing and generally kill time.

Synopsis

Each of them have very little of a life, apart from their tedious jobs and meeting each other in the cafe. Sean hasn't met his girlfriend for 3 weeks and is beginning to wonder if she still lives in his apartment. Vincent is a womanizer who makes a rule of never seeing a girl more than three times. Lenny thinks of every woman he see's as a porn actress but can't even pluck up the courage to talk to a workmate that he wants to ask out for a date. Jody can't force herself to tell the other three that she was fired from her job, but still shows up after her "shift" every night to talk.

Cast

*Luke de Woolfson ... Sean
*James Lance ... Vincent
*Kate Ashfield ... Jody
*Enzo Cilenti ... Lenny
*Heike Makatsch ... Madeline Zozzocolovich
*Shauna Macdonald ... Gail
*Sienna Guillory ... Susie
*Laurie Ventry ... Joe

"The Wonderful Wizard of OZ" References

The film makes implicit and explicit references to the book "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" - the anxieties of the four friends can all be matched up to those of the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion, plus Dorothy, who is the leader of the group. Much the same way as in the Wizard of Oz, they have to travel to a far-seeming destination (i.e. out of town, which seems like a long way for a townie) to overcome their anxieties. Jody also explicitly says, when out-of-town and in a cafeteria, that this all seems like the Wizard of Oz.

Locations

*Late Night Shopping was largely filmed in Glasgow and Ardrossan.Fact|date=September 2007
*The exterior of the cafe that serves as the meeting point for the four friends is actually the Variety Bar on Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. The interior was a set constructed in a disused factory in Paisley.Fact|date=September 2007
*The tunnel at the end of the film is the Clyde Tunnel. It passes under the River Clyde, the major river running through Glasgow.Fact|date=September 2007

External links

**imdb title|0250491|Late Night Shopping


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