Eight Minutes Idle

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Eight Minutes Idle

2012

2h 25m

Comedy

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38%

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8 Reviews

26%

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Fewer than 50 Ratings

When Dan finds himself kicked out of the family home, he's faced with no option but to secretly move into the call center where he works.

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Charlotte O'Sullivan

London Evening Standard

02/14/2014

2/5

Once Lombard starts throwing stilettos, you know it's time to get off the line.

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

02/13/2014

2/5

Occasionally this film looks as if it has achieved the movie equivalent of John Peel's legendary 45-played-at-33 mistake. It is a shame, because there is a real creative intelligence behind it.

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Adam Lee Davies

Little White Lies

02/13/2014

1/5

Director Mark Simon Hewis has a good eye, but his ear for material is way off.

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Jamie Healy

Radio Times

02/14/2014

3/5

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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Rich Cline

Contactmusic.com

02/13/2014

3.5/5

British filmmaker Martin Simon Hewis uses dark humour and visual trickery to overcome what is clearly a very small budget. Even if the comedy feels low-key and uneven, it continually catches us off-guard with inventive touches bringing out deeper themes.

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Stefan Pape

HeyUGuys

02/12/2014

3/5

On the plus side, for the second time this year we're witness to a lonely man travelling around on public transport with his pet cat.

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10/19/2015

A very TV movie feel as its cheap as chips but its quite sweet. A tale of life in a Bristol call centre

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10/19/2015

Quirky enough to enjoy as a light comedy drama, possibly more so if you've worked in a call-centre before.

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06/01/2014

The synopsis intrigued me. I support British films, and I had worked in a call center once. I recognized a few cast names from television shows; as well as the lovely Tom Hughes. What a wasted hour and a half that turned out to be! The satire goes too far, the high-jinks are too high. It began to blare at me, like some obnoxious siren, and still I had to see it through. It seems to me that there are these sort of "personal retrospective"-type films cropping up a lot recently. They aim to be so clever, and yet they miss the mark completely. I did not walk away from this film feeling even slightly enlightened or circumspect. I just walked away... quickly.

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04/27/2014

not offbeat nor funny. shame

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Synopsis

When Dan finds himself kicked out of the family home, he's faced with no option but to secretly move into the call center where he works.

Director: Mark Simon Hewis
Screenwriter: Nicholas Blincoe, Matt Thorne
Production Co: BBC Films, ArthurCox, Matador Pictures
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: British English
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 18, 2016
Runtime: 2h 25m