Convenience and video store clerks Dante and Randal are sharp-witted, potty-mouthed and bored out of their minds. So in between needling customers, the counter jockeys play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and deal with their love lives.

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segacs from Montreal, Canada
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Kevin Smith has delved into action ("Mallrats"), drama ("Chasing Amy") and philosophy ("Dogma") in his Askewniverse, but Clerks, the first film of the series, is still the best.

Shot on a ridiculously low budget, using mostly friends and relatives as the cast and crew (see the line in the credits where "Boom" is credited as "whoever happened to be holding the pole"), "Clerks" is such a great film just because it doesn't try to be more than it is. You get the sense that this movie is in black and white not to be pretentious, but just because it's a prosaic look at prosaic lives.

Kevin Smith's real gift is writing funny, witty dialogue, and that's what carries this film. From Star Wars debates (did the destruction of the second Death Star in "Jedi" cost innocent contractors their lives?) to perfectly serious debates about sex ("Thirty-seven???"), this is the ultimate movie for anyone who's ever been going nowhere and doing nothing. It's a day in the life of the guy working at the corner store, no more, no less. But it's absolutely brilliant.

People either love or hate Kevin Smith movies. Chances are, if you can appreciate the humour of low-brow jokes about pornography as high art, then you'll enjoy "Clerks". His brand of humour isn't for everyone. This is his first film and it's flawed, to be sure. But in my humble opinion, it's still Smith's best.

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dee.reid from United States
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In 1994, an ambitious filmmaker named Kevin Smith was left nearly dead-broke by his commitment to his low-budget debut feature, "Clerks." Shot in black & white and filmed in and around a New Jersey convenience store, "Clerks." is genius on celluloid despite little change of scenery, wooden acting (none of the actors are professionals), and a shoe-string budget; it's also pretty damn funny. "Just because they serve you, doesn't me they like you" became an immortal tagline for one of the best independent comedies of all time, which also launched the career of its director. There's nothing PC about this debut feature, and the relentlessly explicit sex-related dialogue got the film its original certificate, the dreaded "NC-17" rating, which was later dropped down to an "R" rating on a successful appeal by the filmmakers; the characters harass their customers, leave the store during the day to tend to personal matters, and hang-out with girlfriends - not the stuff of responsible employees - and definitely NOT something you would see in any Hollywood production today. In an era rife with censorship and political-correctness, "Clerks." would undoubtedly receive the scorn and protests of the fundamental religious Right and Left. The film features Dante (Brian O'Halloran) and Randal (Jeff Anderson), two bored New Jersey convenience store employees who are both called in on a Saturday (Dante is especially upset because it's his day off) and the two break every rule in the book as they meander through the day and encounter all sorts of colorful characters. Throughout the day, Dante complains about about his girlfriend Veronica's (Marilyn Ghigliotti) sex life, Randal shirks his convenience store duties by shooting the breeze with Dante, philosophize about their daily predicaments, play hockey on the roof of the store, and observe unruly and bizarre shoppers. There's little plot but it's pure fun all the way to the ending with plenty of laughs too. But if you're the sensitive type, you should stay as far away from "Clerks." as possible, as the dialogue will certainly make you squirm in your seat. "Clerks." also contains many Smith trademarks including "Star Wars" talk, references to Spielberg movies, comic books and hockey, all qualities of which would do Smith good in his so-called "New Jersey Trilogy." P.S.: Watch out for Smith in his iconic role as Silent Bob with sidekick Jay (Jason Mewes) as they loiter outside the store and hassle customers.

10/10

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kevin_parks from Canada
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I am very biased on the 9 rating i gave this movie. I could have even given it a 10 for I am, and for a long time has been a clerk. This movie to me was as moving and compelling as Passion of the Christ was for some Catholic people i know. In fact, in some moments, it even brought me to tears. The film is about a guy who works in a convenience store. He comes across the weirdest and most annoying customers that, ironically, don't shy too far from those in real life that I, myself have come across. This clerk is visited by his girlfriend and regularly visiting by his distraught and careless friend who is a clerk at the neighboring video store. If you aren't a clerk, and you watch this movie, remember this: This movie is as true to form as it gets. Some people claim it to be one of the best comedies of the past decade. I say it's the best Documentary of all time.

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Anonymous from Toronto, Ontario
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This has to be my all time favorite comedy and one of my all time favorites overall. About three years ago a friend of mine came to school one day raving about the funniest movie he had seen on late night. He talked about this black and white low budget movie about two blue collar losers who talked endlessly about sex. From that description I wasn't anticipating a masterpiece but I decided to rent it anyway. It was probably the best surprise I have ever had. I was laughing the entire time, so much so that I nearly woke up everyone in my house. For months afterwards my friend and I would endlessly talk about and quote this incredible film. Everyone I have recommended it to has loved it and I can easily see why. I know that some people attack the movie as being vulgar and excessive. The way I see it it is being true to life (I'm sure that when you have 10 hours to kill you'll talk about the average pay of a gizz mopper). In short I absolutely love this film and it gets better and better with every viewing. Rent this film as soon as possible if you haven't already.

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Max_cinefilo89 from Italy
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Clerks is one of those movies everyone knows everything about even before they've seen it. The most fascinating aspect is probably the back-story: Kevin Smith sold his comic-book collection to finance it, shot it in the convenience store where he was working at the time, and cast his school friends in the various roles (two of them wound up playing three or four characters each). The film became a huge hit at Sundance, and is now widely (and justly) considered one of the best independent movies of all time.

The plot is quite easy to sum up: nothing happens. It's just a "regular" day in the lives of a few people working in or outside a Quick Stop convenience store. The fun starts immediately, as Dante Hicks (Brian O'Halloran) is asked to replace a sick colleague. This upsets him a lot, since it's supposed to be his day off ("You know what the worst part is? I'm not even supposed to BE here today!"). So now he has to serve a bunch of rather annoying or excessively weird people, with occasional help from his friend Randal Graves (Jeff Anderson), who "works" in the video store next to Quick Stop. Together, they discuss things like hermaphroditic porn or, Tarantino-style, which Star Wars sequel is better (Jedi or Empire?), and also try to find ways of not working, or at least make the day less boring (as Randal puts it:"This job would be great if it wasn't for the f**king customers"). Between these discussions, they also interact with Dante's present girlfriend Veronica (whose sex life causes heated debates) and ex Caitlin, who's apparently engaged to some Asian design major. And let's not forget Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Smith himself), two drug dealers consistently located outside the store.

Smith uses these characters to reference his favorite movies (the previously mentioned Star Wars, as well as Jaws and Indiana Jones) and talk about any subject in the filthiest way imaginable. Some incredibly outrageous stuff is mentioned ("jizz moppers", necrophilia, "snowballing"), but unlike John Waters, he never shows the events discussed by Dante, Randal et al. Everything occurs, or has occurred, off-screen, so all we get to do is have a good laugh, because no matter how crude it gets (the film is rated R for "Extensive Use Of Extremely Explicit Sex-Related Dialogue"), Smith's writing remains genuinely funny. Randal, in particular, steals every scene with his existential musings ("I'm a firm believer in the philosophy of a ruling class. Especially since I rule.") or very politically incorrect antics (the top? Reading a list of pornographic flicks in front of a mother and her baby).

If you haven't seen it yet, do it, and fast: Clerks fully deserves its cult status. It has priceless dialogue, wisecracking characters and loads of swearing. What else can you ask for?

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movieguy1021 (Movieguy1021@comcast.net) from Anywhere, USA
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Everyone has to start somewhere. Kevin Smith started his popular Jay and Silent Bob series with Clerks., a $50,000 film whose soundtrack cost more than the actual movie cost to make. It's poorly done, it's monochromatic (which actually works to its advantage), it's cheap, but it's funny, and that's all that really counts. The story is more than I thought it would be, and it's continuously funny throughout the whole short runtime. Many of the crude adventures of Dante and Randal are now legendary.

Dante (Brian O'Halloran) works at the Quick Stop convenience store. He's called in on a day off. His friend Randal (Jeff Anderson) works next door at a video store, but sporadically closes it to hang out at the Quick Stop. Throughout the day, various things occur, such as a gum representative trying to get people to stop smoking and chew his gum, a rabbi using the employee's bathroom (with an unexpected twist at the end), disrupting a wake, and the now-classic scene at the video store with "Happy Scrappy Hero Pup".

This movie has non-stop humor going for it. Whether it's Dante's or Randal's confrontations with the unruly customers (who seem over-the-top yet regular), their conversations about nothing (especially Star Wars), or their departures from their respective stores to play hockey or whatnot. I can see that Clerks. is to minimum wage earners as Office Space is to office workers. Dante's always a little timid when it comes to dealing with the unruly customers, but when Randal takes the stage, it's a lot funnier.

Although the parts about Veronica (Marilyn Ghigliotti) and Cairlin (Lisa Spoonhauer) weren't that interesting (except for the 36...make that 37 people), they were necessary, and seemed to create a plot out of this, basically, sketch comedy. It succeeded, and turned it into a great all around film. Most of these people had never acted before, and although it does seem like they're just reciting their lines (there's almost no break in between the dialogue), they do a good job at it. Sometimes it seems a little too scripted (for voice and diction, etc.), but for a bunch of first-timers, it's not bad at all.

Considering the rest of the series (besides Mallrats, which I haven't seen), I'd say Clerks. is close with Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back for the funniest Kevin Smith movie. They're also the two crudest, and the first and last in the series, respectively. But Clerks. will always stay as it was when it was released 10 years ago-revolutionary. It showed that money and action aren't important to make a movie funny.

My rating: 8/10

Rated R for extensive use of extremely explicit sex-related dialogue.

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Dan Grant (dan.grant@bell.ca) from Toronto, Ontario
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If you have seen American Pie and think of it as being honest and real about sex and the way kids talk, then Clerks is right up your alley. I don't think a movie has pleasantly shocked me more than this one has. And make no mistake about it, this is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.

By now we've all heard the story of how Kevin Smith somehow scrounged up $27000 to piece this rag tag film together. It was at a film festival and some film executive saw it and offered him a generous amount of money. They fixed it up and before you know it we have the best indie film ever made. Kevin Smith is now a recognizable name in Hollywood and that alone should make you want to see this film.

Dante and Randal are best friends. They work at a small convenience store and a crappy little video store respectively. As a matter a fact, the video store is so inept that Randall actually goes to one of the bigger video stores in town to rent his movies. Anyway, Dante is obsessed with his ex-girlfriend that cheated on him and he has a present girlfriend that is wonderful to him. That is the basic premise for the movie. And that is all you need to know about the plot. Because what the film is really about is how these characters really talk to each other. It is a bunch of clever anecdotes pieced together hilariously to form a movie. But some of the scenes are just so damn funny that Clerks stays with you for a long long time.

Take for instance a scene where Dante and his girlfriend are discussing the various responsibilities of a man and a woman in sex. Each has an obvious gender biased view of the act but listen to how honest it is written, it gives meaning and much hilarity to the scene. From here, the two end up discussing how many people the other has slept with. And we all know that is an absolute no no in relationships. Because no matter how many or how little the number is, it is too much. But that would be too easy for Smith to end it at that. No, he takes it a step further. From here Veronica ( the girlfriend ) explains that she has only slept with X amount of guys but she has gone down on 36 others. Dante is mortified. How can she do that? And she explains that when she "does it" it means more than when she goes down and that is supposed to make him feel better. It of course doesn't and the pay off in the scene is brilliant as Veronica is walking back to her car. And that is just one of the scenes that makes the film work. There are dozens of other scenes similar in nature that are so humourous yet painfully honest that you laugh but when the giggles subside, you realize that it is so true.

The obvious strength of this film is the writing. But beyond that, Smith establishes himself as a director that can get a performance out of his actors. Almost every major character in here is so well done that you think they had 20 attempts to get it perfect instead of the 3 or 4 that the budget would allow. Dante is well played by O'Halloran but it is Anderson as Randle that I think steels the picture. He is so honest and natural in every scene that he is in that it actually bothers me that he has not established himself in the game. Is it because no one wants to give him a role or is it that he has no interest in movies? I don't know, I just wish he was around again because he is electric.

Jay and Silent Bob are funny as well and Bob provides the film with one of the funnier moments as he dances out of nowhere and then he shocks us with his only line of the film. And what he says may as well be Socrates talking and not a simple street hood. It really works.

I love Clerks. It is such a fun movie and if you haven't seen this gem, check it out. Like it for the funny film that it is, but love it for whats behind it.

This film has heart. And Smith is an inspiration to anyone that wants to do what he did. After all, he proves that nothing is impossible. He is living proof of that.

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Daniel Leal Werneck (atari@innocent.com) from Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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Why claim ultra-budget movies as being the "best film ever" when you can see some guys with almost no scenary and a very low budget make a great movie that is intelligent, funny, has a good soundtrack AND is well done at the same time? Not to mention the autoral thing. It's the kind of movie that makes me think "hey, I wish I'd made this movie... and I could!" : ) --- PS: I call it life savior cause I quit my job as a clerk on the most chic CD store in my town, and couldn't figure out why. When I saw this movie I found out and recovered the trust in my self.

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helpless_dancer from Broken Bow, Oklahoma
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Funny, fast paced story of an assortment of pathetic losers, their dreams, girlfriends, and go nowhere lives. I laughed all the way through at the give and take between the two lead characters and their stupid friends and lovers. Both intelligent, sometimes even sagely; the two men lead lives of loneliness and boredom leading to a careless attitude about their jobs which, in time, will become their position on all things unless they choose to reverse the course they are following. I was groaning with glee as the store clerk had it out with his lady friend over how many men she had fellatio with. I liked the way the film was broken up into titled parts, each comprising a small story within the tale. Zany, well worth the price of entry.

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michaeltdavis from CA, USA
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This movie completely and perfectly describes the details of over the counter life as a clerk! It is one of the funniest movies i have ever seen.Kevin Smith is a very talented and insightful director with a great since of humor.The movie does look very cheesy and low budget, but a little movie trivia, Kevin Smith sold his comic book collection to fund this movie. Then after the movie became a hit he bought his comic books back! I currently work for blockbuster video and life is exactly like this movie! Thanks to this movie some of us are thinking about holding a hockey game on the roof of the store when we quit!I recommend this movie to every person who works as a clerk in a convenience store, or in a video store. This movie for those who don't work in mediocre place such as this will explain to you why we are the way we are!

Clerks is loosely based on "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri hence the name of the protagonist, Dante Hicks. Also, there are nine breaks in the movie to represent the nine rings of hell.
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Silent Bob's line was originally meant to be delivered by Jay, but Jason Mewes had such trouble delivering it that Kevin Smith decided to say it himself.
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Kevin Smith worked in the store where they shot the film. They shot for 21 straight nights. He would clock on at 6am and finish at 11pm. They would then shoot till 4am, after which he would try to grab an hour or two's sleep before getting ready to go back to work.
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Jason Reitman has said that this film revealed to him his desire to be a filmmaker. Reitman later told Kevin Smith this, which lead Smith to jokingly quip, "You're the son of Ivan Reitman. You grew up on the sets of Ghost Busters (1984), and Stripes (1981). It took ME to let you know that you can be a director?".
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Grace Smith who plays the "Milk Maid" in the movie, is Kevin Smith's mother.
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The reason prices end in $.95, $.99, set under a round figure was so that cashiers would always have to open the register to give change, thus recording a sale and preventing them from pocketing the bills.
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The "Clerks" logo is made out of letters cut from various magazines and food items. The C is from Cosmopolitan Magazine, the L is from Life, the E is from Rolling Stone, the R is from Ruffles potato chips, the K is from Clark Bar and the S is from a Goobers box.
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Filmed at the same store in which director Kevin Smith was working at the time. As he was only allowed to film outside of business hours, and because bright enough lights couldn't be afforded, the plot included an explanation for the shutters being always down.
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Jason Mewes (Jay) was so camera shy, that during the dance scene with him and Kevin Smith (Silent Bob), everyone had to leave and go into the video store, and just left the camera rolling, so that Mewes wouldn't be so nervous
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Kevin Smith, a keen comic book fan, sold a large part of his collection to help fund this film. He has since been able to buy most of them back.
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The scene where Dante confronts Caitlin about her marriage to an Asian design major in the video store is done in one shot, which lasts for over five minutes. It was shot on the first night of filming.
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Kevin Smith originally cast himself as Randal which is why Randal gets some of the best lines.
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Kevin Smith financed this movie by maxing out credit cards, selling a majority of his comic book collection and borrowing money from family and friends.
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The film's shoestring budget is part of the reason it was shot in black and white. A number of different types of lighting were used, and this would have required a lot of post production to resolve issues related to the varying color temperatures. With black and white, this isn't a problem.
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Kevin Smith has said on speaking tours that the reason he cast himself in the movie was that if the movie failed and he was in near-permanent debt for the rest of his life, he could at least point at his face in the movie as proof he did it.
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Randall and the Happy Scrappy Hero Pup lady are not actually in the room at the same time. Jeff Anderson refused to read the list of porno movies in front of her, and particularly in front of the child (although the reaction shots of the Happy Scrappy Hero Pup lady were obtained by reading the list to her).
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The "RST" in RST Video stands "Rajiv, Sarla, Tarlochen." Those are the first names of the son, mother, and father team who owned (and still own) the video store and the Quick Stop.
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This is the first film in Kevin Smith's intricately interconnected View Askewniverse series (the others being Dogma (1999), Mallrats (1995), Chasing Amy (1997), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) and Clerks II (2006)). The movies are all linked by characters, themes and events and each contains numerous references to the others.
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Kevin Smith raised the film's minuscule $27,000 budget by selling off his comic collection, borrowing $3,000 from his parents and maxing out his credit cards.
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The offended customer in the "jizz mopper" scene is buying paper towels and glass cleaner.
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The "smoker's lung" that the Chewlie's Gum rep slams on the counter is actually a calf's liver thrown in dirt and burned with cigarettes.
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Despite having almost no violence in the film (with the exception of the fight between Dante and Randal), it was originally given an NC-17 rating by the MPAA based solely on its graphic dialogue. The film's distributor Miramax hired attorney Alan M. Dershowitz (of the O.J. Simpson defense team) who successfully petitioned the MPAA to lower its rating to R without any cuts.
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According to Kevin Smith in an interview in the book "My First Movie", part of the movie's financing came from an insurance settlement. The settlement was from a car that he and Jason Mewes both drove, that was destroyed in a flood. Jason Mewes had told him there would be a flood, and asked if he could move the car uphill, but Smith didn't trust him.
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The anti-smoking sentiment in the film represented Kevin Smith's own viewpoint when he wrote the screenplay. Silent Bob doesn't inhale when he puffs on his cigarette because of this. After filming this movie, he became a two-pack-a-day smoker.
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Kevin Smith says that he got his inspiration to be a film maker and make "Clerks." after seeing Richard Linklater's Slacker (1991).
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The word 'fuck' and its derivatives are said 91 times throughout the film, mostly between Dante and Jay.
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Walter Flanagan, who plays the guy who buys the cigarettes even after the Chewlies Gum Rep does his lecture, is wearing one of Brian O'Halloran's stage beards as a wig.
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Of the 50 actors credited, only two had at least one film credit before appearing in this movie (Gary Stern and Mitch Cohen). The other 48 made their first on screen appearance in this movie, most of them would become regular faces in many 'Kevin Smith' (I) films while others would only make this film.
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The offended "jizz mopper" customer was originally written as a woman.
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No cigarette brands are ever named primarily to avoid lawsuits over royalty payments.
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Kevin Smith directed the music video for Soul Asylum's song, "Can't Even Tell" which closes the film.
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The film was never dubbed into German, an extremely rare occurrence for German audiences. The DVD and Blu-ray release feature German subtitles, though.
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Willem Black was supposed to be a collegiate type, but the original actor for the role, Dan Hapstak, changed his mind and opted out of the role. Scott Mosier was then cast as the role, but since he didn't look collegiate, they reworked the character into an idiot man child.
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According to an unfilmed scene that was animated and put into the 10th anniversary DVD, Clerks (1994) takes place on Saturday. In Mallrats (1995), a reference is made to Julie Dwyer dying "yesterday". Mallrats takes place on Friday.
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Randall watches a porn movie called "The Best of Both Worlds", which is the name of a real series of porn movies. However, the real movies are about bisexuals, not hermaphrodites.
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The role of Dante was written for Ernest O'Donnell, but Kevin Smith felt he wasn't quite right and also the fact that he did not learn his lines for the audition and cast him as Rick Derris instead.
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When Dante is saying how eerie it is that all prices end in the number 9, there are in-fact no items in the shot that end in the number 9, there are items at $1.95, $1.65, $2.08, $1.68 and 5 cents.
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Director Kevin Smith's childhood friend Walter Flanagan appears in several different roles. Due to this, Smith later said that Flanagan was the Lon Chaney of the '90s.
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The "Dave's Fruit Pies" sold at the mart are actually Hostess Fruit Pies with the word Hostess blocked out and "Dave's" put in its place.
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In Snowball Effect: The Story of 'Clerks' (2004) on the special edition DVD, Kevin Smith says that the film's original title was "Inconvenience". Then it was changed to "Rude Clerks" before being shortened to Clerks (1994).
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Kevin Smith isn't listed in the opening credits as one of the actors.
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There are at least two different versions of the scene where Randall is ordering a video for the woman with her little girl. The two versions have two distinctly different voices for the little girl when she says "Happy Scrappy"
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The first draft of the script was 168 pages.
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Dante wears a Pittsburgh Penguins jersey during the hockey game, playing against opponents wearing New Jersey Devils jerseys. Randal wears a USSR (CCCP) jersey during the game, but wears a New Jersey Devils hat.
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While Randal (Jeff Anderson) was telling Dante about his cousin Walter breaking his neck attempting auto fellatio, when Dante asked if Walter made it and Randal said yeah, Anderson almost forgot the next line ("Balls resting on [Walter's] lips"). They decided not to redo the scene to make it so Randal was sympathetic about his cousin's death.
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Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier attended the Vancouver Film School, British Columbia, Canada and made a pact that whichever of them first started directing a movie, the other would produce. Smith created his film first, and Mosier produced it, as he has all of Smith's films.
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Dante says "I'm not even supposed to be here today" 5 times. He also says 2 similar things 1 time each: "No, I don't work today" and "Yeah, I know I'm not scheduled today."
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When Jeff Anderson (Randal) auditioned, he read Jay's lines because he had nothing else to use (the actors were allowed to bring in a separate dialogue to read instead of the script).
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Silent Bob is not so silent. In Clerks (1994) and Mallrats (1995), he speaks only once, but in Dogma (1999), he speaks twice. In Chasing Amy (1997) he has quite a long speech while in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), he becomes almost chatty.
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Vincent Pereira originally had a scene in which Randal (Jeff Anderson) talks to a clerk at Big Choice Video, a perfect clerk, but the sound machine gave way in the middle of the take and they had to scrap the scene. Sound survives up until that point.
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Dante's car is a 1976 Buick Century.
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Kevin Smith has stated on multiple occasions that the character Dante is based on himself and Randal is based on his Comic Book Men co-star Bryan Johnson
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The movie was named as one of "The 20 Most Overrated Movies Of All Time" by Premiere.
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In the final scene we see Dante leaning on a newspaper rack. The tabloid headline reads "Worlds fattest man weds tiniest woman".
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The hat Jay is wearing while stealing the donuts during the roofer's story is a San Jose Sharks hat. The Sharks are an NHL team.
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Kevin Smith: [jaws] After the fiasco involving Caitlin and the dead guy in the bathroom, Randal is pulling a chip through a jar of salsa saying "we're gonna need a bigger boat..." alluding to Jaws (1975), one of Smith's favorite movies.
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Kevin Smith: [Star Wars] There are multiple conversations and references to the films including, but not limited to, Randall's discussion about the end of Return of the Jedi and the song about Chewbacca.
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One of the early scripts penned by Kevin Smith involved Dante being shot in the chest by a robber at the end of the film, after Randal leaves the store. This scene, devised simply because Smith didn't know how to end the movie, was actually filmed but was cut from the released version. It was later included on the 10th Anniversary DVD.
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When Jay and Silent Bob enter the convenience store, and Jay is talking to Dante about how Veronica is a good girlfriend, when he says "I know she does a lot for you.", his mouth doesn't move to the same phrase.
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After the food fight, when Dante and Randal are sitting in the food and Randal is yelling at Dante while throwing candy bars at him, one of the candy bars does not make a sound when it hits Dante. Kevin Smith points this out in the 2004 commentary.
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The Administer of Fines states that the little girl was sold cigarettes at 4 that afternoon. This is impossible because the sale occurred before the hockey game, which was at 2 p.m., and Dante and Randal were at the wake at 4 p.m. (Director admitted this in the DVD/LD commentary).
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The official who hands Dante the summons claims that the charge can not be contested in a court of law. The Constitution guarantees that any matter involving at least $20 is eligible to be ruled on by a jury of the defendant's peers. Director Kevin Smith briefly acknowledges this in the commentary.
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When Veronica chases the gum salesman and the customers, she says "Don't you have jobs to commute to?" She also is supposed to be in class all day. Later when Randal and Dante go to the wake, Randal says to Dante "It's 4 o'clock on a Saturday afternoon - how many people come to the store at four on a Saturday afternoon?" If it's a Saturday, how can there be classes all day, and why are the customers supposed to commute to their jobs? And we are told that the funeral is tomorrow which would be a Sunday. Funerals are not usually held on a Sunday.
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After Randal sells the cigarettes to the little girl, Dante remarks that all the prices end in nine, yet all the price tags in the shot end in five.
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The gum representative buys some gum so he could claim to be a customer, however when he first went in, he bought a drink, so he was a customer anyway.
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Randal mispronounces "leitmotif."
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Dante is asked if he was at the store around 4 o'clock and replies yes when he is being fined for selling cigarettes to a minor. However, in the previous scene, both he and Randal are at the funeral home at 4 o'clock.
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Jay's costume is different in nearly every scene in the movie because the jacket he wore on the first day of shooting was his girlfriend's and he had a hard time borrowing it for the entire length of the shooting.
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When Dante and Randal leave the wake, it is still light outside, yet when they get back to the store, it's very dark outside.
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Dante's beard changes because Kevin Smith asked Brian O'Halloran to shave his goatee before filming started during rehearsals, then, after seeing what it looked like without it, told him to grow it back. The scenes shot earlier in the shoot show a thinner beard while the ones shot last show a thicker goatee as it had longer to grow back.
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Disappearing "No Shoplifting" sign when Randall sells cigarettes to the little girl.
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Veronica says she'll see Dante at closing after dropping off the lasagna. After she says this, Dante makes the call to find out that the boss is in Vermont and he will be stuck there until closing. When Veronica had spoken to him, he was still expecting to leave for his hockey game.
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Different "People" magazines in the rack in different shots. The first time, the cover story is about Soleil Moon Frye's breast reduction surgery. The second time, the cover story is about the death of Brandon Lee.
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When Dante and Randall argue on the ground of the convenience store following their big fight, and all the food is on the ground, the "SKOR" bar placard on the shelf behind Dante disappears in one close-up shot.
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Veronica uses a fire extinguisher to disperse the crowd. When the gum rep tries to slink out the door, we can see the same fire extinguisher mounted on the wall next to the door.
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The amount of Dante's Yoohoo decreases rapidly between shots while discussing Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi with Randall. The bottle is also turned to a different view of the label upon return shot.
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Silent Bob's hat changes position between shots during the Olaf scene.
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When Randal is ordering videos the woman with the little girl's coat keeps disappearing and reappearing.
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While playing hockey and arguing with the irate customer Dante is using an Easton model hockey stick. When he takes a faceoff against that customer Dante is then using a Koho brand stick. After the customer loses the hockey ball Dante is then using the Easton stick again.
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In the scene where a customer is complaining to Dante about Randal being late, there are 7 videotapes (6 on the counter and one in the customers hand). A few minutes later when Randal arrives, Dante hands him only 3 tapes to return to the video store.
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The clothes worn by the mother asking for "Happy Scrappy Hero Pup."
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"Pringles" can disappears from counter.
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The sign next to the door at Quickstop. It goes from saying ODA to SODA and back to ODA.
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In the start of the movie, towards the end of the song. When Dante puts his head down on the counter, in the glass you can see Kevin Smith, the camera and the cameraman.
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In many shots towards the end of the movie, the camera and/or boom is/are reflected in the glass behind the counter.
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In the second shot of William The Idiot Boy (after Dante and Veronica stand up from behind the counter and sees William staring into space), the leg of a man can be seen moving quickly to the left-hand side of the screen - it's the clapperboard man, who didn't clear shot fast enough.
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In the beginning of the movie when we first meet Jay & Silent Bob the crew is briefly reflected in the windows.
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In the closing credits, a character name includes the misspelling "maturbator".
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In the end credits, the song title "Big Problems" is misspelled as "Big Poblem".
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At the end of Caitlin's confrontation with Randall, Jeff Anderson momentarily breaks character and admires Lisa Spoonauer's butt as she walks away. (Kevin Smith points this out in the DVD/LD commentary.) However, due to Randal's sexual obessions, this action was completely in character for him.
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Throughout the movie by the quick stop counter we see 3 different sets of TV guide covers. One with Heather Locklear one with Tim Allen from home improvement and one with Ted Danson. The movie is suppose to take place in one day and yet we see these TV guides and spread out out of sequence.
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The Chewlies rep's coffee cup is obviously empty when he picks it up to take a sip from it.
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AKAs Titles:
Argentina - Cajeros
Argentina - Dependientes
Brazil - O Balconista
Canada (French title) - Commis en folie
Germany - Clerks - Die Ladenhüter
Denmark - Døgneren
Estonia - Poesellid
Spain - Clerks
Finland (TV title) - Clerks - tiskirotat
Finland - Tiskirotat
France - Clerks, les employè s modèles
Greece (transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title) - Ypalliloi
Croatia - Trgovci
Hungary - Shop-stop
Italy - Clerks - Commessi
Poland - Clerks: Sprzedawcy
Serbia - Prodavci
Russia - КлеÑ€ки
Sweden - Clerks
Slovenia - Trgovci
Turkey (Turkish title) (Pay-TV title) - Tezgâhtarlar
USA (alternative spelling) - Clerks
USA (DVD title) - Clerks X: Tenth Anniversary Edition
USA (working title) - Inconvenience
USA (working title) - Rude Clarks
USA (poster title) - cLeRKs

Release Dates:


Certifications:
Argentina:18 / Australia:R / Australia:MA (2008 re-rating) / Australia:R (original rating) / Canada:18A (Canadian Home Video rating) / Canada:14A (Nova Scotia) (video rating) (10th anniversary edition) / Canada:16+ (Quebec) / Chile:18 / Finland:K-12/9 / Germany:12 / Hong Kong:III / Iceland:L / Ireland:18 / Israel:16 / Italy:VM14 / New Zealand:R16 / Norway:15 / Singapore:M18 / South Africa:16 / Spain:18 / Sweden:Btl / UK:18 / UK:15 (video rating) (2005) / USA:NC-17 (original rating) / USA:R (re-rating on appeal) / USA:TV-MA (tv rating)