The feature film includes nearly all of the content of the short. Originally exhibited as a short film in 2004, it was expanded to feature length in 2006. Jared Harris ( uncredited) as Alex Proud.Keeley Hazell as Frozen Girl in Sainsbury's.Janine-May Tinsley as Adult Natalie (as Janine May Tinsley).The finale occurs as Ben shares his ability to stop time with her and the two step outside into a time-frozen snowfall. She is moved as most of the pieces depict her and she happily greets Ben, congratulating him on his success. Sharon receives an invitation to the exhibition and visits. However, the gallery owner is nonetheless interested in Ben's work and decides to exhibit Ben's drawings. When Ben arrives as agreed, the reaction of the owner quickly reveals that he has been pranked. Sharon henceforth does not show up to work at the supermarket.Īs a practical joke, colleagues Barry and Matt phone Ben Matt poses as an art gallery owner who is interested in displaying Ben's drawings, and schedules an appointment for Ben to present more to him. He eventually seeks to explain himself to Sharon at her apartment, and a confrontation similar to the film-opening breakup occurs. After spending several days "frozen", Ben concludes that although he can stop time, he cannot reverse it to correct the mistake. Ben realizes Sharon has seen the kiss, and freezes time. Ben refuses her advance but she kisses him, just as Sharon witnesses from afar. While there, Ben encounters Natalie, who is now a stripper, as well as his ex-girlfriend Suzy, who implores him to try their relationship again. When Jenkins throws a party to honor his own birthday and as a consolation for their defeat, Sharon asks Ben to be her date, to which he eagerly but nervously agrees. This time he discovers that he is not alone when he sees a mysterious stranger who is able to move inside the frozen world as he can. Other neighborhood boys repeat this trade.īen's boss, Alan Jenkins, recruits the staff for a weekend football game and, after an embarrassing defeat, 26-Nil, Ben freezes time again. In another flashback, the young Ben and his best friend Sean share Sean's discovery of his parents' adult magazines, and Sean pays a neighborhood girl called Natalie fifty pence to show him her vulva. He explains how he always has been impressed by the beauty of the female body: how he, as a young boy, witnessed a Swedish boarder walk naked from the shower to her room.
Finally the ability to stop time becomes real.Ī series of flashbacks occur with each progression of the plot, accompanied by Ben's narration and an examination of the effect the situation had had upon him. He imagines female patrons of the supermarket stopped in time, allowing him to undress and draw them. In particular, he imagines that he can stop time so that he can walk around in a world that is "frozen" like the pause of a film. As his personal means to escape the boredom inherent in the night shift, Ben lets his imagination run wild. Among them is his colleague Sharon, with whom he soon develops a mutual crush. To take his mind off Suzy and to occupy the extra waking hours he has recently gained, Ben begins working at a local Sainsbury's supermarket, where he meets colorful co-workers. Aspiring artist Ben Willis develops insomnia after a painful breakup with his girlfriend, Suzy.