''Convenience'' is a 2013 British

dark comedy Black comedy, also known as black humor, bleak comedy, dark comedy, dark humor, gallows humor or morbid humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally ...

film about two friends who, needing to pay a debt they cannot afford, try to rob a

petrol station A filling station (also known as a gas station [] or petrol station []) is a facility that sells fuel and engine lubricants for motor vehicles. The most common fuels sold are gasoline (or petrol) and diesel fuel. Fuel dispensers are used to ...

and end up posing as clerks for the night. The film was written by Simon Fantauzzo and directed by Keri Collins.

Cast

Ray Panthaki Ray Panthaki (; born 20 January 1979) is a British actor, producer, screenwriter and director best known for the roles he played in '' Marcella'' (2016–2020), ''Away'' (2020), and the movie ''Boiling Point'' (2021), for which he was nominated fo ...

as Ajay *

Adeel Akhtar Adeel Akhtar is a British actor. He is known for his role in '' Murdered by My Father'', for which he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in 2017. He is also known for ''Utopia'', '' Ali & Ava'', '' Showtrial'', and '' She ...

as Shaan *

Vicky McClure Vicky Lee McClure (born 8 May 1983) is an English actress, model and presenter. She is known for her roles as Detective Inspector Kate Fleming in the BBC series ''Line of Duty'' (2012–2021) and Lol Jenkins in Shane Meadows's film '' This Is ...

as Levi *

Anthony Head Anthony Stewart Head (born 20 February 1954) is an English actor and singer. Primarily a performer in musical theatre, he rose to fame in the UK in the 1980s following his role in the Gold Blend couple television advertisements for Nescafé, ...

as Barry *Jenny Bede as Debbie * James Bradshaw as Clive * Daniel Caltagirone as Tommy *Margaret Jackman as Mavis *

Verne Troyer Verne Jay Troyer (January 1, 1969 – April 21, 2018) was an American actor and occasional stunt coordinator and performer. He was best known for playing Mini-Me in the ''Austin Powers'' film series. He had cartilage–hair hypoplasia and ...

as Dwight *Tom Bell as Stoner 1 *

Tony Way Tony Paul Way (born 7 October 1978) is an English actor, comedian, and writer. He is best known for playing characters in a number of British comedy TV series including '' Extras'', '' After Life'', ''Black Books'' and ''Bang, Bang, It's Reeve ...

as Stoner 2

Production

The film was shot in a petrol garage located in

Gorseinon Gorseinon is a town within the City and County of Swansea, Wales, near the Loughor estuary. It was a small village until the late 19th century, when it grew around the coal mining and tinplate industries. It is around north west of Swansea Ci ...

, South Wales.

Critical reception

''Convenience'' attracted a positive response from audiences and critics alike. Leslie Felperin, writing for

The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardi ...

, called the film a "fun-fuelled comedy caper" with "good, genuinely funny dialogue". Felperin praised the "likable, tightly synchronised cast". Nev Pierce, for

Empire Online ''Empire'' is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Media Group. The first issue was published in May 1989. History David Hepworth of Emap, the publisher of British music magazines ''Q magazine, Q'' and ''Smash Hits'', proposed t ...

called the film "very funny ..simple, but strong". Louie Freeman-Bassett, for Gorilla Film Online felt ''Convenience'' would have been better produced as a fifty-minute play, but singled Adeel Akhtar's performance as the film's best.

References

External links

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