
Dante Hicks is not having a good day. He clerks in a small convenience store and is told to come into work on his day off. Dante thinks life is a series of down endings and this day proves to be no different. He reads in the newspaper that his ex-girlfriend Caitlin is getting married. His present girlfriend reveals to have somewhat more experience with sex that he thought. His principal concerns are the hockey game he has that afternoon and the wake for a friend who died. His... (Full plot summary below)
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Dante Hicks is not having a good day. He clerks in a small convenience store and is told to come into work on his day off. Dante thinks life is a series of down endings and this day proves to be no different. He reads in the newspaper that his ex-girlfriend Caitlin is getting married. His present girlfriend reveals to have somewhat more experience with sex that he thought. His principal concerns are the hockey game he has that afternoon and the wake for a friend who died. His buddy Randal Graves works as a clerk in the video store next door and he hates his job as much as Dante hates his.
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| Arizona Daily StarPhil VillarrealIt comes from bad stock, curses like a longshoreman and doesn't bring a gift. Nevertheless, it's the life of the party. |
| Film.comJohn HartlAt 24, Smith also knows something about casting. Using a mixture of stage actors and novices, he's found the right ensemble tone to make Clerks seem as spontaneous as it needs to be. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonIt's not John Cassavetes' Shadows (1959), but what Kevin Smith's Clerks, lacks in subtlety it makes up for in laughs |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranNothing, no matter how outrageous, is beyond Smith, and his willingness to flaunt cinematic taboos is one of the reasons why Clerks is such a unqualified success. |
| Film ThreatBrad LaidmanRandal is a beautiful hostile piece of work that only could have come from America. He's the sort of guy who never put in a quality day at the office in his life, but somehow probably winds up winning the biggest lotto drawing ever with a ticket he stole from his loser best friend's Quickie Mart. |
| Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAn impressive and irascible debut that rings true even when you're laughing too hard to hear it. |
| Atlantic City WeeklyLori Hoffman...an utterly profane and amusing movie by first-time filmmaker Kevin Smith. |
| New TimesLuke Y. ThompsonSmith's dialogue sounded groundbreakingly realistic at the time -- wore out its welcome eventually, but the initial blast was gleeful and significant. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevySmith dogpiles absurdity and obscenity on top of each other. The dullness of the dead-end jobs is brightened by bizarre bits--a fat guy asking for softer toilet paper, drops dead on the toilet. |
| PopMattersBill GibronClerks remains a defining debut, a symbolic shot into the darkened domain of legitimate moviemaking. |