8 minutes idle

Name: 8 minutes idle
Director: Mark Simon Hewis
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2012
Duration: 1 h 26 min
Cast: Tom Hughes, Ophelia Lovibond, Montserrat Lombard, Antonia Thomas, Paul Kaye

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Comedy

2012
Mark Simon Hewis
86 mins
15

Summary

Comedy starring Tom Hughes. When young slacker Dan Thomas is booted out of the family home, he's forced to move into the call centre where he works. His coast-along life will never be the same again.

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Review

A star rating of 3 out of 5.

Jamie Healy

This modest charmer from BBC Films charts ten days in the life of a call-centre worker who finds himself turfed out of the family home along with his cat. Good-looking, affable but hopelessly ineffectual 20-something Dan (Tom Hughes) is left with no alternative but to sleep secretly in the store cupboard at work, spending his evenings mooching about in his pants and making mischief in his boss's office. Hughes gives a delightfully dozy performance as he's given the runaround by the women in his life: subtly kooky colleague Ophelia Lovibond, predatory line manager Montserrat Lombard and his homicidal, malaprop-spouting mother Pippa Haywood. A downbeat office karaoke party and the trials of keeping a pet hidden in the workplace add to the quirkiness, although the comedy may be a trifle low-key and offbeat for some. But like a pleasingly warped version of TV's The Office, Mark Simon Hewis's film captures the inconsequential nature of nine-to-five desk jockeying, while the Bristol backdrop lends it plenty of character.

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5.3/10

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rolenameDan ThomasTom HughesTeri WalkerOphelia LovibondAliceMontserrat LombardAdrienneAntonia ThomasSteve ThomasPaul KayeIanJack AshtonDevDivian LadwaKathyPippa Haywood