Clerks

Movies today portray same jobs, police officers, lawyers, drug dealers, military officers. Kevin Smith's "Clerks' takes on a different approach, it portrays a day of a job of a convenience clerk. Dante Hicks (Brian O'Halloran) is a clerk in a convenience store with a friend, Randal, clerk in a nearby video store, both ill paid jobs in Asbury Park, New Jersey strip mall. Both Dante and Randal are disillusioned, tired of life and bored, underpaid and unlucky in love, by choice in Dante's case and they encounter customers in a series of psychological tests.

Dante is 22, a college dropout and goes through this bad job by running his life at the same time, after all, they called him on his day off. His girlfriend, Veronica (Marilyn Ghigliotti) is bringing him food and chasing out occasional lunatic that comes in the store, but he gets alarmed when he reads in the paper that his former girlfriend Caitlin is engaged to an 'Asian studies major', and his hockey game has to be played on the roof of the store.

His day begun at dawn when they woke him to tell him to work, he drank some coffee out of jar lid, than went to the store, found out that they used gum to jam the locks on the store's steel shutters, he wrote a big sign 'I Assure You We're Open' using shoe polish, idea that will haunt him till the end of the day, everyone will comment on his smell.

Just out of the store, there are two vacant eyed, deadbeats selling drugs, long haired pig of a man that seems to be the main guy and Silent Bob (Kevin Smith himself) a character that looks as if he'll beat you up and take the drugs that you bought and the rest of your money. They later on get joined by a guy that they claim to be a Russian heavy metal star

Across the street, Randal is working in a video store, mistreating customers, waiting with them and pretending to be angry at the clerk for not showing up, with customers that ask for 'that one with that guy that was in that movie last year'. The store's stock is such that Randal goes to another store once he decides to watch a video. he and Dante have deep philosophical questions that customers even enter regarding Star Wars, namely: When the second Death Star was destroyed, it was still under construction, does that mean that the good guys destroyed a lot of innocent construction workers died?

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