Clerks (Collector's Series)
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Actor: Al Berkowitz, Betsy Broussard, Jeff Anderson, Ken Clark (VII), Lee BendickPrimary Contributor: Jeff Anderson
Primary Contributor: Brian O'Halloran
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-06-29
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Miramax
Movie Reviews of Clerks (Collector's Series)
Movie Review: Vile, over-written -- but real and sometimes funny -- a hint of the master to come
Summary: 3 Stars
"Dogma" made me do it.
After watching that crazy/sincere and original movie, I wanted to see what else director Kevin Smith had made. "Clerks," his first film, made on the cheap, is roughly shot in black on white. It is over-written and horribly acted. But there is something fascinating and real about the film. "Clerks" is set almost exclusively inside a North Jersey mini-market and next door video store. Writer Kevin Smith seems to have thrown every gross conversation idea he had into the film. It vibrates with the familiar (and pathetic) issues of the post-high-school-pre-marriage school crowd, living away from home and letting loose on each other to try to arrange their private lives. Main character Dante Hicks is a 24-year-old store clerk. He and and current floozy girlfriend Caitlin are on fairly good terms until the conversation turns to the number of other lovers each has had. Meanwhile, Dante pines for old flame Veronica, whose engagement notice just appeared in the paper. Slacker friend Randal clerks the (mostly customer-free) video store next door until he gets bored and pops into the markeet to annoy Dante and insult his customers. There are rooftop street hockey games, a fiaso in a funeral parlor, a list of porn titles raw enough to curdle sewage, a renewed romance and a dead guy in a bathroom. Just another day at the mini-mart.
"Clerks" is foul-mouthed, disgusting, yet over-the-top fascinating. The cast of slackers, losers, half-wits and yokels has potential, not always actualized. Smith's classic duo -- the ever-enigmatic Silent Bob and a particularly potty-mouthed Jay -- make their debut. With "Clerks," Smith shows that he has an eye for character and the absurdity of normal life. A plot twist involving a dead girl and a casket is well done, thouh all the action takes place off screen.
"Clerks" is not a family film or even a date film by any stretch of the imagination. My wife was not impressed, not say the least. And one piece of writing will leave a really bad taste in your mouth. But the film is a fine document of one filmmaker's starting point in the business. A special stop for any Kevin Smith fan.
Summary of Clerks (Collector's Series)
If you're in the market for wildly funny entertainment, CLERKS delivers with wholesale hilarity! It's one wacky day in the life of a pair of overworked counter jockeys whose razor-sharp wit and on-the-job antics give a whole new meaning to customer service! Even while bracing a nonstop parade of unpredictable shoppers, the clerks manage to play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home, and straighten out their offbeat love lives! The boss is nowhere in sight, so you can bet anything can -- and will -- happen when these guys are left to run the store.Before Kevin Smith became a Hollywood darling with Chasing Amy, a film he wrote and directed, he made this $27,000 comedy about real-life experiences working for chump change at a New Jersey convenience store. A rude, foul-mouthed collection of anecdotes about the responsibilities that go with being on the wrong side of the till, the film is also a relationship story that takes some hilarious turns once the lovers start revealing their sexual histories to one another. In the best tradition of first-time, ultra-low budget independent films, Smith uses Clerks as an audition piece, demonstrating that he not only can handle two-character comedy but also has an eye for action--as proven in a smoothly handled rooftop hockey scene. Smith himself appears as a silent figure who hangs out on the fringes of the store's property. --Tom Keogh
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