The Clerks Page

CLERKS, the first film by writer-director Kevin Smith, checks out the lives, loves, ambitions and eccentricities of two cash register jockeys at a New Jersey convenience store.
Smith pepper his tale with amusing convenience store icons-the man looking for perfect eggs, the woman foraging for the freshest milk, the geezer begging to borrow a porn mag and use the employee restroom. But any encounter can go bad. Just ask Dante Hi cks (Brian O'Halloran).
The day dawns bleakly for 22-year-old Dante when the boss calls, asking him to handle the early morning shift at Quick Stop Groceries. "I'm not even supposed to be here," Dante fumes as one thing after another goes wring.
He was supposed to sleep late, play hockey, enjoy himself. Instead, he's pelted with cigarettes by angry customers, shocked by angry customers, shocked by sexual revelations from devoted Veronica (MARILYN GHIGLIOTTI), and devastated by the wedding annou ncement of the high school ex he can't forget, Caitlin (LISA SPOONAUER).
And there's Randal (JEFF ANDERSON), Dante's reckless counterpart at the adjoining video store, who wantonly insults customers and scorns at the idea that his job should influence his behavior. When they sneak out to attend a wake, Randal shames Dante and outrages the mourners by tipping over the casket.
"What kind of convenience store do you run here?", a coroner demands as she collects data on a customer's embarrassing demise. Dante doesn't have a reply. But he just might take tomorrow off.
Cast: BRIAN O'HALLORAN, JEFF ANDERSON, MARILYN GHIGLIOTTI, LISA SPOONAUER, JASON MEWES, KEVIN SMITH Writer/Director: KEVIN SMITH