Clerks [Blu-ray]

Director: Kevin Smith Kevin Smith

Overview

This hilarious, thoroughly captivating New Jersey-based comedy covers 24 hours in the lives of woebegone clerks Dante and Randall. Dante, reluctantly put in charge of the Quick Stop market where he works, tries to perform his minimum-wage activities as efficiently as possible while enduring a break-up with his girlfriend Veronica.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/27/2021
UPC:	0191329202074
Original Release:	1994
Source:	Miramax
Language:	English
Time:	1:31:00
Sales rank:	4,527

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Brian O'Halloran	Dante
Jeff Anderson	Randal
Marilyn Ghigliotti	Veronica
Lisa Spoonhauer	Caitlin
Jason Mewes	Jay
Scott Mosier	William the Idiot Manchild
Scott Schiappo	Chewlies Rep
Al Berkowitz	Old Man
Walt Flanagan	Woolen Cap Smoker/Egg Man,Woolen Cap Smoker/Egg Man/Offended Customer/Cat Admir
Ed Hapstak	Sanford,Door Tugging Customer
Lee Bendick	Wyranski
David Klein	Hunting Cap Smoking Boy
Pattijean Csik	Coroner
Donna Jeanne	Indecisive Video Customer
Betsy Broussard	Dental School Video Customer
Ernest O'Donnell	Trainer
Kimberly Loughran	Alyssa's Sister Heather
Gary Stern	Tabloid Reading Customer
John Henry Westhead	Olaf the Russian Metalhead
Chuck Dickel	Stock in Chips Can
Leslie Hope	Jay's Lady Friend/Angry Woman at Door
Connie O'Connor	`Happy Scrappy' Mom
Vincent Pereira	Hockey Goalie/Engagement Savvy Customer,Angry Smoking Man,Angry Smoking Man
Erix Infante	Bed Wetting Dad/Cold Coffee Lover
Melissa Crawford	Video Confessor/Candy Confession Customer,Angry Man at Door
Thomas Burke	Blue Collar Man
Mitch Cohen	Leaning Against Wall/Angry Man at Door
Matthew Banta	Burner Looking For Wood
Rajiv Thapar	Cut-Off Customer,Angry Woman at Door
Mike Belicose	Customer with Diapers
Jane Kuritz	Customer with Vaseline and Rubber Gloves
Grace Smith	Milk Maid
Frances Cresci	Little Smoking Girl
Brian Drinkwater	Hockey Player
Bob Fisler	Hockey Player
Derek Jaccodine	Hockey Player
Carl Roth	Angry Smoking Man
Paul Finn	Angry Smoking Man
Ken Clark	Administer of Fine/Orderly
Virginia Smith	Caged Animal Masturbator

Technical Credits

Kevin Smith

Kevin Smith	Director,Screenwriter,Producer
Scott Mosier	Producer,Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

While Clerks doesn't have much going for it cinematically -- it looks even cheaper than its $27,000 budget would lead you to expect and the directorial style can be described as "nail down the camera and let the actors play the scene" -- it's still an effective and very funny movie, largely thanks to the screenplay by first-time writer/director Kevin Smith. Chock full of instantly quotable dialogue performed by an unknown cast with an appropriate tone of Jersey slacker cynicism, Clerks is a hilarious rant against (and from) the lowest rungs of minimum-wage slavery. If convenience store clerk Dante (Brian O'Halloran) and his best friend, video store counter guy Randall (Jeff Anderson), don't do anything terribly interesting (the action high point of the film is a brief hockey game played on a roof), that's part of the point; these guys' lives are going nowhere, and they know it. But rather than do anything about it, they talk about whatever keeps them from dying of boredom, including which Star Wars movie was the best, the sexual escapades of their girlfriends, the virtues of hermaphrodite porn, and the endless parade of stupid customers they have to deal with. Anyone who has ever worked retail will enjoy a long, loud laugh of bitter recognition while watching Clerks, while anyone else should thank their lucky stars if they don't understand the sheer hell of spending eight hours behind the counter that this film captures with such accuracy.