It's not going to set the world alight, but director Saul Metzstein's debut feature Late Night Shopping is an distracting twentysomething comedy looking at life, love and all points in between.

Vinnie (James Lance) is a shelf-stacking lothario committed only to his own shallow world view. Sean (Luke De Woolfson) is a hospital night porter who hasn't seen his girlfriend for weeks.

Jody (Kate Ashfield) loses her dead-end job but continues to meet her fellow night workers for coffee as she has nothing better to do with her life.

And Lenny (Enzo Cilenti) is a tongue-tied telephonist with a pornography fixation.

The four of them spend long hours together in a coffee shop in the early hours after work talking about their humdrum lives, all of which take a dramatic turn when Vinnie sleeps with Sean's girlfriend and chats up the object of Lenny's emotions just to show him how it's done. Eventually, everything comes to a head on a freakish crazy golf course.

The characters are not exactly endearing, but you can't help feeling drawn to them as you learn more about their lives.

In a mirror of the bond between them, they become comfortable acquaintances of the viewer rather than best mates, to the point where you just about care what happens to them.

With some nice touches and a snappy script, Late Night Shopping is diverting enough to keep you off the streets.

By Nick Churchill