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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. What is UMDTM?
UMD, Universal Media Disc, is a brand-new and groundbreaking optical storage medium, designed for the high speed and efficient delivery of digital entertainment content that can store up to 1.8 GB of digital data on a 60mm disc -- or an entire feature film on a single UMD video. All UMD DVDs are produced in Widescreen and encoded using advanced AVC compression. UMD for PSP will play on the new PlayStation Portable handheld entertainment system.
Specifications
Diameter: 60 mmMaximum Capacity: 1.8GB (Single-sided, dual layer)Laser wavelength: 660nm (Red laser)
"The funniest movie of the year!" New York Newsday
"Screamingly funny!" Rolling Stone
"Two thumbs up!" Siskel & Ebert
Editor's Note
Chronicling a day in the life of Quick Stop clerk Dante Hicks, CLERKS captures the hilarity of the humdrum even as it raises slackerdom to existential proportions. From behind his counter, Dante desperately tries to exert some power over the crazy customers, his own love life, and his incorrigible friend and fellow clerk Randal--the type who sees nothing wrong in closing the video shop he works in to go rent movies from a better store.
Plot Summary
Made for less than the cost of an SUV, Kevin Smith's first film finds 22-year-old Quick Stop clerk Dante Hicks (Brian O'Halloran) called into work on his precious day off. There he is besieged by customers ranging from the agitated to the insane, not to mention Randal (Jeff Anderson), the clerk from the video store next door whose commitment to service is made clear when he observes, "This job would be great if it wasn't for the f@&%!#* customers." Dante's love life is a shambles, and the situation at the store goes from bad to worse, but he and Randal are never so beleaguered that they can't find time to discuss why the destruction of the Death Star in RETURN OF THE JEDI may have been morally dubious (uninvolved contractors were probably aboard). In fact, it was the clerks' clever dialogue, saturated with pop-culture references, that elevated CLERKS to cult-hit status among Generation-Xers and transformed Kevin Smith from film school dropout to indie auteur. Smith himself plays Silent Bob, while Jason Mewes plays Jay, his drug-dealing other half. Together the duo provide added comic relief, continuity, and wisdom in each of the the director's films.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital Stereo | | DVD Quality Picture | | Full Length Movie | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Buena Vista |
| Release Date: 9/1/2006 |
| Running Time: 92 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1994 | | Catalog ID: 4942703 | | UPC: 00786936692358 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: B&W |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Cannes Film Festival (1994) |  | Kevin Smith, Winner, Young Cinema Award | |
Sundance Film Festival (1994) | | Kevin Smith, Winner, Filmmakers Trophy |
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| | Professional Reviews | Premiere
"...The funniest movie this side of a Big Gulp..." - Recommended| 06/01/1995 p.116New York Times
"...A buoyant, bleakly funny comedy....The two main actors are fresh and engaging..." 03/25/1994 p.C10 Entertainment Weekly
"...Refreshing....Smith's wit, verve, and imagination elevate the schematic..." -- Rating: A- 05/19/1995 pp.68-70 Variety
"...The SLACKER generation is alive and well in CLERKS, a randy, irreverent, slice-of-life no-budgeter that's played for laughs and gets them....CLERKS is a grunge movie par excellence..." 01/31/1994 Sight and Sound
"...CLERKS is a circumspect comedy about the mundane and profane....The young cast have a gift with timing....[A] grass-roots catalogue of the weird and wondrous..." 05/01/1995 p.42-3 Chicago Sun-Times
"...Smith shows great invention, a natural feel for human comedy, and a knack for writing weird, sometimes brilliant dialogue..." 11/04/1994 p.23 Uncut
"[A] slacker phenomenon....Still funny." 09/01/2005 p.146 Washington Post 7 of 10
...Clerks is extremely funny and dead-on--in terms of its intentionally satirical, Gen-X-istential gloom... [the movie] never loses its own sleazy self-confidence. Under that hard-edged outer layer, there's actually a heart... - Desson Howe
Chicago Sun-Times 9 of 10
With the limitations of his bare-bones production, Smith shows great invention, a natural feel for human comedy, and a knack for writing weird, sometimes brilliant dialogue... - Roger Ebert
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