Genre: Comedy Director(s): Kevin Smith Release Date: 01 January 1994 Movie rating: 7.8

“Clerks”, Kevin Smith’s feature film debut, is a 1994 black and white comedy revolving around two store clerks and a cast of their acquaintances. Written, produced and directed by Smith (who also introduces his iconic character Silent Bob for the first time), it helped put the future superstar filmmaker on the map. The film was shot on a budget of less than 30 thousand dollars, and it earned over a 100 times more at the box office. It is now considered a cult classic, one of the greatest independent films ever made, as well as one of the greatest comedies of all time. Dante Hicks is called in from his day off to cover for a sick colleague at the convenience store. As it turns out that he’s going to have to spend the entire day at the store, he kills the time talking to his friend Randal Graves, a worker in a neighboring video store. What promised to be a boring day turns out to be full of strange, surprising events, including playing hockey on the roof of the store, being chased away from a wake, Dante’s ex girlfriend unwittingly having sex with a corpse and his current girlfriend dumping him. Throughout the entire ordeal Dante will have to reach some difficult conclusions about the current state of affairs in his life.

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