(18) Clerks.

Directed by Kevin Smith
Rated R
1994
92 minutes

****

Kevin Smith's debut film is, plain and simple, an ultra low budget marvel. The seemingly normal day in the lives of two convenience store clerks is peppered with Smith's trademark great writing, with plenty of gross-out humor to satisfy the Adam Sandler fan in us all (who were born after 1980). Though the low budget has taken its toll on the film over the years, and he actually would outdo this with Clerks II 12 years later, it's great to go back and look at the first film of a man who was one of independent films in the 1990s true pioneers.